Ulster County Poorhouse Project

State of NewYork
Ulster County

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To either of the Constables of the Town of the New Paltz, and to the Over
seers of the Poor of the Town of Montgomery in the said County
Upon the Complaint of Andries Dewitt and Elisha Lester Overseers of the Poor of the Town of the New Paltz in the Said county made unto us Johannis
Snyder and Abraham B. Baucker two of the Peoples Justice of the Peace
Assigned for the Said County and whose names are herein to ___ and Seal
affixed - That Sarah Derbyshire aged twenty years with her young Male
Child have come to inhabit in the said Town of the New Paltz not having
gained legal Settlement there, nor produced a Certificate owning her
to have legal Settlement elsewhere and that She with her Child are be
come Chargeable to the said Town of the New Paltz - We the said Justices
upon due proof made thereof as well upon the Examination of the said Sarah
as otherwise and also upon due Consideration of the Premises We do Ad
judge that the said Sarah has not gained a legal settlement in the said town
of the New Paltz And as her last place of legal Settlement is to us unknown
We do therefore require you the Said Constable to convey or Transport the
Said Sarah with her Male Child to the Constable of the nest Town on the
nearest Route to the Town of Montgomery and from Constable to Con
stable to the said Town of Montgomery from whence she last came together
with this our Order, and there to deliver the said Sarah and her Child to the
Overseer of the Poor of the said Town or some or one of them together with this
our order, or a________ thereof, at the same time showing to him or them
the Original. And we do further require you the said Overseer of the
Poor of the said Town of Montgomery to receive the said Sarah and her
Male Child and further to provide for them as the Laws shall or may
require. given under our Hands and Seals at Kingston this fourth
day of May in the sixteenth year of our Independence and in the year
of our Lord 1792.

Joh ' Snyder
Abm B. Baucker