County, if any such Towns, really or apparently, re- ! sponded to the invitation of the Committee of Cor- I resjjondence in New Y'ork, either contented themselves, like those of Bedford and Mamaroneck, with only the elections of Delegates to the proposed Convention of the County, without any further expression of their sentiments, or, if they expressed such sentiments or any others, that, in the absence of all other than merely local agitators, they did not [ crowd those sentiments before a people who were j already surcharged with such wordy manifestations ; I and it remains only for us to record the additional
I 'Official record of the proceedings of the Sleeting, in Gaine's AVmj- I York Guzelle: mut the \yeMij Mm-iiri/, No. 1194, New- York, Monday, I Atigust JO, 1774, and in Jtiringtou'a Xew-Yorii GazetUer, No. 72, New- York, Thursday, September 2, 1774.
HISTORY OF WESTCHESTER COUNTY.
facts that, on Monday, the twenty-second of August, 1774, a Convention of Delegates from the several Towns and Distiicts of Westchester-county, or from a number of them, was assembled in the Court-house, at the White Plains ; that Colonel Frederic Philipse, Lord of the Manor of Philipseborough and a Member of the General Assembly of the Province, representing the County of Westchester in that body, was in the Chair of that Convention ; ^ that it was determined to authorize a Delegation to represent the County, in the proposed Congress of the Continent, at Philadelphia; and that Isaac Low, Philip Livingston, James Duane, John Alsop, and John Jay, who had been elected to represent the City and County of New York, in that Congress, should be duly authorized, also, to represent the County of Westchester, therein.'-