Coxsackie Militia
1779

Public Papers of George Clinton
First Governor of New York
1777-1795  - 1801-1804

Volume III

Published by the State of New York
Albany
James B. Lyon, State Printer
1900

 Transcribed by Sylvia Hasenkopf

Coxsackie Exempts Organize a Company of Militia 

To his Excellency George Clinton, Esqr., Governor of the State of New York, &c. 

The petition of the several persons whose names are hereunto subscribed and who have either civil or military Commissions or are between the ages of fifty and fifty five years and resident within Coxsackie District in the County of Albany: 

Humbly Sheweth 

That in pursuance of an Act entitled an Act for regulating the Militia of the State of New York your petitioners have entered into an association and chosen our officers to command us as appears in a paper hereunto annexed. 

Your petitioners therefore pray that your Excellency will be pleased to grant Commissions to such our officers and your petitioners as in duty bound will ever pray &c. 

We the hereunder Subscribers being persons who have held either civil or military Commissions or are between the ages of fifty and fifty five years and residing within Cocksackie District in the County of Albany in pursuance of a certain act of this State entitled an act for regulating the Militia of the State of New York do hereby associate ourselves and do also severally agree that we will on all occasions obey the orders of out respective Commanding officers; and will in cases of Invasion or Incursions of the Enemy or Insurrections, march to repel the Enemy, or suppress such Insurrection in the like manner as the enrolled Militia are compelled to do; so as that we shall not when called out in Detachments be annexed to any other Regiment or Company, or be under the immediate Command of any other than our own officers. And we have also this day chosen, James barker for our Captain Abraham Salisbury for our first Lieutenant, Petrus Vanette for our second Lieutenant & Robert Patterson for our Ensign. In witness whereof we have hereunto set our several Hands the Sixth Day of April on thousand seven hundred and seventy nine. 

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