The two following resolves were then unanimously entered into, viz. : Resolved, that the thanks of this body be given to the virtuous minority of the

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General Assembly of this Province, and particularly to Jolin Thomas and Pierre van Cortlandt, Esq., two of our Representatives, for their attachment to, and zeal on a late occasion, for the preservation of the union of the Colonies, and rights and liberties of America; and that this resolve be communicated by the chairman to every gentleman of whom that minority consisted.

Resolved, that the thanks of this county are due to the Delegates who composed the late Congress, for the essential services they have rendered to America in general ; and that this resolve be forthwith published.

After the business of the day was thus concluded, the people gave three huzzas for our gracious sovereign, and dispersed quietly without the least disorder.*

Lewis Mokris, Chairman."

Protest of the inhabitants and freeholders of Westchester county, New York.

County of Westchester, April I3ih, 1775.

Mr. Rivington : -- Be pleased to insert the following, and you will oblige a number of your friends and subscribers.

On Thursday the 11th inst., a very respectable number of freeholders and inhabitants of the county of Westchester assembled at the White Plains in the said county, agreeable to the notice given, that their sentiments might be known concerning the choice of a committee to meet other committees in the city of New York, for the purpose of choosing delegates to represent this Colony in the next Continental Congress. The friends of order and government met at the house of Captain Hatfield ; more who were for a committee put up at another public house in the town. About 12 o'clock, word was brought to the gentlemen at Captain Hatfield's that the opposite party had already entered upon the business of the day ; upon which they immediately walked down to the court house, although not half of their friends, who were expected had yet appeared, where they found the other company collected in a body.