" Except wherein our authorities for particular statements have been already given, we have depended, for what we have stated, in this and in the two other jtaragraphs which immediately i)recede this, on the knowledge which wo have acquired, concerning Westchestercoimty, its inhabitants, and its history, from the nnnierous books and manuscripts and newspapers, bearing on those subjects, wliich have fallen into our hands and been examined by us, during more than forty years past ; on the information, relating thereto, which was given to us, personally, in our earlier life, by aged natives of the County, some of them dear relatives, and one, if no more, whoso personal recollections extended back, beyond the Declaration of Independence ; and on what remained of the character and habits of its Colonial inhabitants, in those old families who continued to linger within the County, when we first knew it.

<We are not insensible of the discontent, among the tenantry on the Cortlandt JIanor, which led a considerable ninuber of tlieni and of those who favored them, in April and Jlay, 1760, to move down, ne far as Kingsbridge, demanding a redress of grievances, and making serious threats against their Landlord ; but it was only a local disturbance, reaching only to the limits of that single locality. It possessed no political significance whatever -- it was grimly said of it, by a contemporary, "Sons of Liberty great opposers to these Rioters as they are cif opinion " no one is entitled to Riot but themselves "--and it was prcmiptly suppressed, without loss of either juoperty or life. Those who are curious to know more of this outbreak of early ".\ntircntei-s," are referred to the JournuU of Caplnin John Jloulreaor, 301, 303 ; and to the Colonial Manuscripts of that period.