On this day 250 years ago, in Orangetown, New York, the Freeholders and inhabitants of Orangetown” met at the home of Yost Mabie to adopt the Orangetown Resolutions. The Resolutions were probably drafted by John Haring who would later serve in the First Continental Congress and other political posts in the State of New York during the War.
“However well disposed we are towards his majesty, we cannot see the late acts of Parliament imposing duties upon us, and the act for shutting up the port of Boston, without declaring our abhorrence of measures so unconstitutional and big with destruction.”
“We are in duty bound to use every just and lawful measure to obtain a repeal of acts, not only destructive to us, but which, of course, must distress thousands in the mother country.”
“Stopping of all exportation and importation to and from Great Britain and the West Indies would be the most effectual method to obtain a speedy repeal.”
sources: https://wikimili.com/en/Orangetown_Resolutions
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