Friday, March 31, 1775
12. This being the day appointed for taking the sense of the freeholders of this
town of Jamaica, whether they would nominate a Deputy, a poll was opened, when the votes taken
stood as follows:
| Capt. Rutger, | Isaac Roads, | Nehemiah Everitt, |
| John Skidmore, | John Roads, | J. Hendrickson |
| Robert Hichman, | Jonah Roads, | Joseph Higby, |
| Waters Smith, | Hope Roads | Andrew Oakley, |
| William Ludlum, | Richard Roads, | Moses Higby, |
| Rev. Abm. Keteltas, | Thomas Denton | Jacob Foster, |
| Jonas Frederick, | Benjamin Everett, | Daniel Ludlum, |
| William Steed, | John Van Lew, | Samuel Higby, Cooper, |
| John Mills, | Benjamin Creed, | Cornelius Losee, |
| Isaac Bayley, | Isaac Mills, | Daniel Smith, |
| Increas Carpenter, | Nicholas Smith, Jr., | Samuel Higby, Jr., |
| John Cockle, | Benjamin Hinchman, | Jonathan Thurston, |
| Isaac Hendrickson, | David Lambertson, | Nathaniel Smith, |
| John Innes, Sr. | Nathaniel Box, | Ephraim Marston, |
| Elias Bayley, | William Creed, Jr., | Othniel Smith |
| Aaron Hendrickson, | A. Hendrickson, | Samuel Smith |
| Robert Denton, | A. Hendrickson, Jr., | William Creed |
| John Smith | Whitehead Skidmore, | Nehemiah Carpenter, |
| Jacob Wright, | Christopher Rider | John Skidmore, Jr., |
| Nicholas Smith, Sr., | Amos Denton | Ephraim Bayley |
| William Messenger, | Samuel Skidmore, | Obadiah Smith |
| Nicholas Everett, | Noah Smith, | Jacob Carpenter, |
| Peter Smith, | Daniel Bayley, | Joshua Carpenter |
| John Brimner, | Wait Smith, | John Messenger, |
| Daniel Tuthill, | John Thurston, | Joseph Robinson, |
| Hend�k Hendrickson, Sr | Samuel Messenger, | Thomas Wiggins, |
| Daniel Everitt, | John J. Skidmore, | Jacob Duryea--85. |
| John Brush |