1. On January 19, 1787, the bill was read a second time and “committed to the Members of this House from the counties of Dutchess and Albany” (New York Assembly Journal description begins Journal of the Assembly of the State of New York (Publisher and place vary, 1782–1788). description ends , 1787, 15). It was passed on March 12, 1787. The act provided for the erection of the town of Clermont, granted township privileges to its inhabitants, and annexed the Manor of Foxhall to the town of Kingston in Ulster County.

Presumably H drafted the act, but the absence of the records of the New York legislature for the period precludes a definite conclusion. The act is printed in Laws of the State of New York, I description begins Laws of the State of New York Passed at the Sessions of the Legislature Held in the Years 1777, 1778, 1779, 1780, 1781, 1782, 1783 and 1784 Inclusive, being the First Seven Sessions (Albany, 1886). description ends I, 455–56.