Recommendation for
Sheriff
and Clerk of Albany
From Calendar of Historical Manuscripts
Relating to the War of the Revolution
on the Office of the Secretary of State
Albany, NY
Vol. 1
Albany
Weed, Parsons and Company, Printers
1868
Transcribed by Sylvia Hasenkopf
Albany General Committee Chamber, 14th June 1776
Present: Abraham Yates, Junr. Chairman
First Ward:
John Barclay
John Price
Myndert Roseboom
John Williams
Jacob Roseboom, Junr.
Second Ward:
Jeremiah Van Rensselaer
Rutger Bleecker
John Ja Beeckman
Third Ward:
Dirck Ten Broeck
John M. Beeckman
Isaac Van Aernam
Abraham Yates, Junr.
Schnectady:
Cornelius Van Dyck
Harms. H. Wendell
Corns. A. Van Slyck
John a. Bratt
West Side Manor Rensselaer:
Antony Van Schaick
Philip P. Schuyler
Henry Quackenbush
Corns. G. Van Den Bergh
Bastiaen T. Visscher
David McCarty
Barent Myndertse
Philip Van Veghten
Francis Nicoll
East Side Manor Rensselaer:
Killian Van Rensselaer
John H. Beeckman
James Magee
Rynier Van Aelstyne
Frederick Berger
George White
Jacob C. Schermerhorn
Kings District:
Matthew Adgate
John Beebe
Coxackey:
John L. Branch
William Van Bergen
Grate Imboght:
John Van Orden
Goose Van Schaich
Manor Livingston:
Peter R. Livingston
Walter Livingston
Dereck Jansen
Samuel Ten Broeck
German Camp:
Wessel Ten Broeck
Peter Scharpe
Schoharry:
Johannis Ball
Peter Becker
Saratoga:
John Tayler
Joseph Row
Half Moon:
Rutger Lansingh
Wilhelmus Van Antwerp
Schaghtehocke:
Michael Van Der Cook
Lewis Van Antwerp
Nathaniel Ford
Balston:
Hezekiah Middlebrooks
Claverack:
Henry I. Van Rensselaer
James Sexton
Stephen Graves
Hosick:
Jacob Ouderdonk
Fenner Palmer
Cambridge:
John Younglove
Mr. Henry Wendell applyed to this Board for their
Recommendation (in case a new form of Government should take place in this
Colony) for the Sheriffship of this City and County and Mr. Matthew Visscher
made the same application for the Clerkship of the said City and County and
thereupon this Board Unanimously agree to recommend those Gentlemen to the
Provincial Congress as persons (both in principles and abilities) fit for the
different offices they have severally applied for.
Extract from the Minutes:
Attest: Mat. Visscher, Secry. Abm. Yates, Jun. Chairman