The Orangetown Resolutions were adopted on July 4, 1774, exactly two years prior to the adoption of the United States Declaration of Independence. The resolutions were part of a widespread movement of town and county protests of the Intolerable Acts passed by the British Parliament in 1774. The resolutions were adopted at the home of Yoast Mabie, a Dutch colonial house in Tappan, New York, in the town of Orangetown in Rockland County. The house was demolished in 1835.

Text of the resolutions

The resolutions read: At a meeting of the Freeholders and inhabitants of Orangetown and Province of New York, on Monday, the fourth day of July, 1774, at the house of Mr. Yoast Mabie in said town, the following resolves were agreed upon and passed, viz: =Signers= Signers and objectors can be found in Historical record to the close of the nineteenth century of Rockland County, New York. Ed. by Arthur S. Tompkins. Nyack, N.Y., Van Deusen and Joyce, 1902: pages 93-97. https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=loc.ark:/13960/t7xk8n73f&seq=105