These Resolutions were duly submitted to the Meeting ; and, as the official record says, they " were " unanimously ajjproved of ; " when the assemblage quietly dispersed.'

Those who are acquainted with the questionable practices of ambitious, and, not unfrequently, unscrupulous politicians, will be prejiared, without warning, for the reception of any modification of the recorded features of that Meeting, at Rye, of which mention has been made -- the first demonstration, in Westchester-county, concerning the great political questions of the day, of which there is, now, any existing record.

It does not appear, nor is it pretended, that the Meeting of "the Freeholders and Inhabitants of the "Township of Rye," now under consideration, was numerously attended ; and, as it was held during the busiest season of the agricultural year, there is no reason for supposing that many were present. In the same connection, it will be seen that the place of meeting is, also, unnoticed on the record. The masterspirit of the assembled farmers, whether many or few in number, was John Thomas, Junior, one of a family of officeholders under the Home and the Colonial Governments,^ and, himself, an anxious office-seeker.

1 Ollicial report of the proceedings of the Meeting-- Holt's \ew-York Journal, Xo. 1G50, New-Yokk, Thursday, August 18, 1774.

See, also, Gaiue's Xew-York Gazette, and the WeeMij Mercury, No. 1192, New-York, Monday, August 15, 1774, and liicmgloii's Xew-York Gazelleer, No. 70, New-York, Thui-sday, August 1><, 1774.

2 The Grandfather of John Thomas, Junior, waa the Rev. John Thomas, Rector of St. George's C'liurch, Hempstead, Long Island, who.