Of those Circular Letters, inviting a correspondence with the Committee, in New York, it is recorded that thirty copies were sent to the Treasurer of Westchester-county, with a note from the Chairman of the Committee, requesting him "to direct and forward " them to the Supervisors of the several Districts," ^ the first attempt, which was made, by any one, to draw the farmers of that County into the unrest of discontent and disaffection ; but we have failed to find, in any portion of the 3Iinutes of the Committee, the slightest evidence that any one, within that County, paid the slightest attention to the Committee's insidious invitation, or that, at that time, any one to the northward of Kingsbridge, either within or without the limits of that County, seemed to possess the slightest interest in the Committee, or in the general purposes for which it had been appointed, or in those ill-concealed purposes for which it had covertly solicited the co-operation of the leaders, where there were any, throughout the Colony -- certainly a very

circumvent and secure the control of the entire Colony, under a mask of '■patriotism," as it had already circumvented and secured the control, in political affairs, of the County of Xew York.

1 3/iH«(es of the Committee, " NEW-TonK, May 30, 1774;" Lietiienanlgovernor Colden to Governor Tryon, "New York, June 2, 1774."

^Minutes of the Committee, Special Meeting, "New-Yoek, May 31, "1774;" Lieuteiumt-govemor Colden to Governor Trgon, "Xew-Youk, "June 2, 1774."

3 Jleiiiorandum, appended to the Minutes of the Committee, "Xew- "YoKK, May 31,1774."