It was here that the Whigs of Westchester county appointed to meet the committees of the several towns to elect deputies to the continental congress, who were to assemble at Philadelphia, on the first day of September. 1774. The proceedings of the various meetings held here would afford matter for a good sized volume, we shall therefore present our readers '• with a small part only of the important productions of those eventful times." The following resolutions were adopted by the freeholders and inhabitants of Rye and Westchester.

"On the lOih day of August, 1774. the freeholders and inhabitants of the township of Rye^ made choice of John Tiiomas jr. Esquire, Robert Bloomer, Zeno Carpenter and Ebenezer Haviland, for a committee to consult and determine with (he committees of the other toAUis and districts in the county of Westchester, upon the expediency of sending one or more delegates to congress to be held in Philadelphia, on the first day of September, next. The committee, after making choice of Ebenezer Haviland as chairman, expressed their sentiments and resolutions in the following manner, which were unanimously ap})roved :

''This meeting being greatly alarmed at the late proceedings of the British Parliament, in order to raise a revenue in America, and considering their late most cruel, unjust and unwarrantable act for blocking up the port of Boston, having a direct tejidency to deprive a free people of their most valuable rights and privileges, an introduction to subjugate the inhabitants of the PJnglish colonies, and render them vassals to the British House of Commons, resolved, 1st, that they think it their greatest happiness to live under the illustrious house of Hanover, and that they will stedfastly and uniformly bear true and faithful allegiance to his majesty King George the Third, under the enjoyment of those constitutional rights and privileges, as fellow subjects, with those in England.