Cumberland County, New York, was Located south of Gloucester County and east of
Charlotte County, Province of New York. Incorporated from Albany County (as was Charlotte County), it was created in 1766, reverted in 1767, and re-created in 1768. On June 6, 1775, a
Committee of Correspondence of the County met in
Westminster, Province of New York, to complain about the tax acts passed by Parliament without colonial representation. Major William Williams, later a Colonel in
Ethan Allen's 1st Regiment, represented the County as Delegate to the
New York Provincial Congress from 1775 to 1776 (the Second Provincial Congress). It was abandoned
de facto by the authorities in 1777, but was
de jure part of New York until 1791, ==See also==