*' We ihe subscribers do hereby make this public declaration, that whereas, we and several others in Westchester county, having signed a certain number of resolves, which at the time of our said signing were deemed constitutional, and as having a tendency to promote the interest of our country ; but, since upon mature deliberation vnd more full knowledge of the matter find not only injurious to our present cause, but likewise offensive to our fellow colonists, we do therefore thus publickly testify our abhorrence of the same, and declare ourselves true friends to the colonies, and ever ready cheerfully to exert ourselves in the defence and preservation of the same."n

Jonathan Fowler, Esq.

George Croaiwell, Esq.

' "At a meeting of freeholders of Westchester county, New- York, at the White Plains, on Monday, the Sth day of May, 1775. Governeiir Morris, Lewis Graham, James van Cortlandt, Stephen Ward, Joseph Drake, Philip van Cortlandt, James Holmes, David Dayton, John Holmes, jr., Robert Graham, and

■^ American archives, fourth series, vol. k Ibid. 446.

COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER. 359

William Paulding, were chosen to be the deputies from this County to the Provincial Convention of the Province of New York."a

" On the 30ih of June, 1776, the Provincial Congress of this State adjourned from the city of New York to the court-house in White Plains, where they met on the 9th of July following, and tliere continued in session until the 29th of that month."''

In Provincial Congress, New York, 30th June, 1776.