1 .Juurual of Captain John Jlontressor, N.Y. Hist. Soc. Col., 1881, p. 3G3.

' " this House doth Concur witli and adopt tlie resolutions of the House of Burgesses of the Dominion of Virginia.'" -- K. Y. Assembly Journal, May 16, 17G9.

3 Of course in not suggesting before this, the able political pamphlets under the name of A. Tl'. Furmet; written by Mr. Wilkins, the member of the General Assembly from the Borough of M'sstchester, we have no

members realized the dangers which were so near at hand! This is shown in the following action, within a month previous, bearing upon the interests of the east side of the county. A petition from Joseph Rodman and one hundred and twenty-six others, ft'eeholders and inhabitants of the Manor of Pelham, East and Westchester and New Roclielle, in the County of Westchester, having been presented to the House and read, praying that Joshua Pell, Jr., may have leave to bring in a bill to enable him to erect a bridge across the old creek, so-called, that runs between the said Manor of Pelham and Eastchester, ordered That the members of Kings and Queens Counties, together with the members for the borough of Westchester, or the major part of them, be a committee to view the premises and report their opinion to this House ivifhin fourteen days after the beginning of the next session thereof, and that the clerk of this House serve Philip Pell, Esq., and Stephen Ward with a copy of the said petition and of this order.*