Document: Council minutes, April 1 and 7, 1775

Gilbert G. Marselis appointed justice of the peace and assistant judge of the common pleas, David McCarthy justice of the peace for Albany county; Lewis McDonald jr. justice of the peace for Westchester county; Lawrence Lawrence, Thomas Baker, Cornelis Humfrey, John Wilkinson, justices of the peace and quorum, William van Wyck, Peter L. Monfoort, Stephen Duryea, Cornelis Dennis, John Wooley, James Germon, Eliab Yeomans and Daniel Ketcham justices of the peace for Dutchess county; William Shaw justice of the peace for Ulster county. New list of judges and justices for Orange county to be made out. Order on petition of Benjamin Hough and Daniel Walker (see N. Y. Col. Mss., 101:82).