Peter Clowes was said to have represented "Goshen Precinct in Orange- " county ; " but the Credentials which were filed from Orange-county declared that two Delegates should be required to represent that County ; and that only when one such Delegate should appear in the Congress from "the North side of the Mountains" [the Highlands] and one from the " South side " of those Highlands -- Orange -county, at that time, including what, now, is Rockland-county- should that Delegation be complete and authorized to represent the County. As there was only one, instead of two, Delegates ; and because those Towns which were below the Highlands were entirely without a representative, there waB no Delegation from Orange-county, in the Congress.

Thouias Palmer and Moses Cantiue were the only Delegates, out of the seven who had been elected, and who were present, to represent Ulstercounty ; but those who had elected them and given to them all the authority which it was said they possessed, had declared that three of those seven should be required to constitute a duly authorized Delegation from that County. The two, therefore, left Ulster-couuty without a competent Delegation.

2 Journal of the Provincial Congress, " Wednesday morning, December "6th, 1776."

3 Journal of the Provinckd Congress, " Die Veneris, 9 ho., A.M., Decera- "ber22nd, 1775."

* Journal of the Provincial Congress, "Die Lunse, A.M., February 12th, "1770."

'•> Journal of the Provincial Congress, " Die Sabhati, 9 ho., A.M., March "10th, 1776."

"as well to the United Colonies, in general, as to this, " Colony, in particular, rendering it necessary for a " speedy meeting of the Provincial Congress of this "Colony, the Committee of Safety, therefore, ordered Circular Letters to be sent to all the mem- "bers, requesting their attendance, in Provincial " Congress, at New York, on the first day of this inst.