The following are recommended as proper persons to represent the city and county of New-York, in Provincial Congress. : The election will commence on Tuesday next, being the 16th of April, 1776 …

Election ticket- listing Col. M'Dougall- Robert Ray- John Van Cortlandt- and eighteen others- followed by an address exhorting the inhabitants of New York to vote "for men of virtue and knowledge" in the upcoming election. Election ticket followed by: To the inhabitants of the city and county of New-York. Signed: The Sentinel. Dated: April 13- 1776. One of four different tickets issued for this election. Cf. Becker. Imprint from Evans 15108. Names in 3 columns separated by type ornament rules. Also issued as separate broadsides. Two issues noted. A: first line "The following are recommended ... " 155 mm.; first line "To the inhabitants ... " 149 mm. B: "The following ... " 158 mm.; "To the inhabitants ... " 152 mm. New-York Historical copy no. 1 state A on one sheet. Copy 2 state B "The following ... " on separate sheet 12 x 21 cm. Copy 3 state B "To the inhabitants ... " on separate sheet 26 x 21 cm. References: Evans 14757- 15108; Becker- C. L. History of political parties in the province of New-York (1960)- p. 257-258.