For that jiurpose, on Saturday, the twentieth of August, also in response to the Circular Letter received from the Committee of Correspondence in the City of New York, those of " the Freeholders " and Inhabitants " of that Borough Town who sympathized with that Committee in its request that Westchester-county should apj)oint Delegates to represent it in the proposed Congress, met, and appointed James Ferris, Esq., Colonel Lewis Morris, and Captain Thomas Hunt, " a Committee to meet the Com- " mittees of the difl'ereut Towns and Precincts, within " this County, at the White Plains, on Monday, the " twenty-second instant, to consult on the expediency " of appointing one or more Delegates to represent " this County, at the general Congress, to be held at " Philadelphia, the first day of September next."

Like the similar Meeting, at Rye, this Meeting also waited, apparently without adjourning, until its Committee was formally organized, by the ai)i)ointnient of James Ferris, Esq., as its Chairman, and while that Committee considered the various political questions of the period -- ''the very alarming Situa- " tion of their sufi'ering Brethren, at Boston, occa- "siouedby the late unconstitutional, arbitrary, and "oppressive Act of the British Parliament, for '■ blocking up their Port, as well as the several Acts " imposing Taxes on the Colonies, in order to raise a " Revenue in America " -- and had prepared the following Resolutions expressive of the result of its deliberations on those very grave questions: