Remember the extravagant price we are now obliged to pay for goods purchased from merchants in consequence of the new importation agreement ; and when the new exportation agreement takes place, we shall be in the situation of those who are obliged to make bricks without straw. "b

White Plains, in the Co. of W. C. April llth, 1775, On the 28th of March last, the following gentlemen having received letters from the chairman of the coinmittee of the city and county of New York, re-

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lative to the appointment of Deputies for this county, met at this place for the purpose of devising means for taking the sense of the county upon the subject, viz., Theodosius Bartow, Esq., William Sutton, Esq., Captain Joseph Drake, James Willis, Benjamin Drake, Moses Drake, Colonel Lewis Morris, Thomas Hunt, Abraham Leggett, James Horton, jr., Esq., Stephen Ward, and Abraham Guion, Esq., who, having taken the same into consideration, agreed to send the following notification to the principal freeholders in the different towns and districts in the county, viz. ;

March 28tk, 1775. Sir : -- A number of persons from different districts in the County of Westchester having this day met at the White Plains to consider of the most proper method of taking the sense of the freeholders of the said County upon the expediency of choosing deputies to meet the deputies of the other counties for the purpose of electing delegates to represent this colony in the General Congress to be held in Philadelphia, on the 10th day of May next, are of opinion that the best way of proceeding for that purpose will be to have a general meeting of the freeholders of said county.