That this has been the Case, and is like to be the Case "again, is notoriously known ; and all for the Sitke of enriching a few "Smugglers; which together with that of supplying our Enemies with "Provisions,* will be an eternal Reproach to our Countrj-. No gixxi " Slaii therefore, nor good Citizen, it is to be hoped, w ill hesitate in "giving all the Discouragement in his Power, to such ignominious "Practices. Informations, ojM'nly, or privately will be thankfully re- "ceived, and gratefully, if retpiired, rewapled, by

"THE OFFICERS OF HIS MAJESTY'S CUSTOMS."

* At that time. Great Britain was at War with France and S|)ain, to whose Colonies, in the West Indies es|)ecially. Provisions were taken, by the Colonial Merchants, in exchange for those Goods, of foreign grow th and production, which they sought to smuggle into the British Colonies, on the Atlantic seaKutrd, as aliove stated.

HISTORY OF WESTCHESTER COUNTY.

ployed it, to resist the execution of the Stamp-Act, to prevent the lauding of the East India Company's Tea, and to make other demonstrations of seeming popular approval or disapproval, on other subjects of public polity or of governmental policy, whenever the political or the pecuniary interests of those "Gentlemen in Trade" who had employed it, seemed to warrant the outlay of the means which had been required to produce a desired result: to our hand, meanwhile, can be assigned, of all the various important subjects comprising the political and military histories of the Colony or of the Continent, at all periods, only the description of those events, during the period of the American Eevolution and that of the War which followed and established that political Revolution, which, in themselves or in the consequences arising from them, directly aft'ected the peace, the happiness, or the interests of those who, during those eventful periods, were residents of the rural County of Westchester, in New York.