History of Westchester County, New York, Vol. I

One of "the '' chief concerns of the principal inhabitants " was for those Tradesmen, whose small funds, though " sufficient for the small purjioses of life, yet would "soon be exhausted, if their resources were cutoff"" -- in other words, for the payment of debts, due by those Tradesmen to those " principal Inhabitants," which, otherwise, would have been worthless -- and Nails, and Ropes, and Baizes, and "Shirt-cloths," and Shoes, and other articles were manufactured, at the expense of the charitable, elsewhere, which were disposed of, by the " Gentlemen " who managed the speculation, to whom and at such j)rices as best answered the purposes ot all concerned.^ Need there be any surprise that, as one of their countrymen has since said, without a blush, " the people of Boaton, " then the most flourishing commercial Town on the "Continent, never regretted their being the principal " object of ministerial vengeance;" telling us, at the same time, that the " thousands who depended on their " daily labor for bread said : ' We shall suffer in a " ' good cause ; the righteous Being who takes care of " ' the Ravens that cry unto him, will provide for us "'and ours""?'^ Need there be any surprise, also,

' .\ paper, dated " Hoston Augu»t 20, 1774," responsive to "a report "industriously propagated in New York" -- but witliout any indication by whom written or wliere published -- wliicli was printed in Force's Anierimn Archiiet, Fourth Series, i., 743, 744.