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DELAWARE COUNTY. 209 William Cook, Nathaniel Golt, Thomas Fuller, James Harper, A. H. Ten Broeck, Elihu Phinney, Wm. Abbott, Samuel Huntington, Joseph Holt, Joseph Griffin, Israel Guild, Sluman Wattles, Supervisor of Ostego Co. H. Farnsworth, Benajah Beardsley, " James Gardiner, David Golf, " James White, William Beekman, " Stephen Ingalls, Christopher Colwell, " Norman Sandon, Joshua Dewey, " Wm. French, Roswell Hotchkiss, " Oliver Ingalls, Jas. Strong and Eli Parsons." From the above and other petitions, it appears that in the session of 1794, a plan with boundaries was agreed upon by the Legislature, and by a concurrent resolution it was resolved to defer the erection of the new county until a coming session, ^' that the same be published in the public papers, with leave to any person or persons affected thereby, to appear at the bar of either house, and show cause (if they have any,) against the passage of such a bill.^' Accordingly, at the session of 1796, the opponents of the new measures had arrayed them- selves fiercely against the proposed boundaries, and had pre- pared themselves fully for the contest. While the inhabitants of Walton, Cannonsville, and Deposit, petitioned to be annexed to Tioga county, those of the East Branch petitioned to remain in Ulster county, and to do their business at Kingston. As they were compelled to go there once or twice a year to trans- act their ordinary affairs, they might at the same time do their county business, with little expense or trouble. They also set forth, that between them and the proposed county-seat lay a hideous and almost impassible mountainous wilderness, with- out roads, and the people too poor to build them. The last remonstrance was signed by one hundred of the most respect- able citizens of that section. 18*