THE TOWN OF WESTCHESTER. 



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We the subscribers appointed a sub-committee to inspect the election of mili- 

 tia officers for the said town, do most humbly certify, that the following persons 

 weir chosen tins 24th day of August, 1775, by a majority of voices duly qualified 

 for that purpose, agreeable to the resolutions of the honorable Congress above- 

 said, (viz. :) 



John Oakley, Captain, 

 Nicholas Bebkian, 1st Lieutenant, 

 Isaac Leggett, 2d Lieutenant, 

 Feedeeick Philipss Stevenson, Ensign. 

 (Thomas Hunt, 

 Committee. - James Feeeis, 

 (Lewis Gkaham. 



By an act of the State Legislature, passed iSth of April, 1785, enti- 

 tled, '"An act authorizing the freeholders and inhabitants of the town- 

 ship of West Chester, to choose Trustees for the purposes therein men- 

 tioned • " the name and style of the old borough and town of West 

 Chester, was changed for that of the Township of West Chester. Time 

 of meeting, first Tuesday in May, and on the first Tuesday in April, in 

 every year thereafter to choose six freeholders, who shall be resident in 

 the said Township for Trustees, etc. a 



Second, "And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that the 

 district formerly called and known by the style of the Borough and Town 

 of West Chester, shall henceforth be called and known by the name of 

 the Township of West Chester." 



At a meeting of the freeholders and inhabitants of the town of West- 

 chester, held 1 st day of April, 1788, being the first Tuesday in April, 

 and the annual day of electing town officers, pursuant to an act of the 

 Legislature, passed the 14th Feb., 1787. Present, Joseph Bowne, etc. 



The following persons were chosen for the ensuing year : — 



Iseael Undeehtll, Supervisor. 



John Bartow, Je.,") 

 Michael Ryee, > Assessors. 

 Augustus Deake, ) 



JonN Bartow, Je.,"| 

 Israel Undebhill, 

 Josiah Quimby. ! T t 

 Edward Briggs, > 1}US ™ es - 

 Joseph Bowne, 

 Samuel Bayard, 



Coenelius Hunt, Constable. 

 The following act was passed by the Legislature of this State, on the 



a Laws of N. T. Sth session, vol. i , p. 180. Greenleaf, N. Y., M.D.CC, xcii. 



