History of Westchester County, New York, Vol. I
" Joshua Purdy,
" James Wetmore,
" William Brown,
" Joseph Purdy,
"Jonathan Budd,
" Ebenezer Brown, Jun.,
" Henry Slater,
"Andrew Kniffen,
"Thomas Wilson,
Roger Purdy, Gilbert Brundige, Joseph Clark, James Gedney, James Purdy, John Adee, Nathaniel Purdy, Joseph Wilson, Benjamin Willson, James Hart, Silemon Halsted, James Budd, Thomas Kniffen, Gilbert Merrit, Esq. John Carhart, Israel Seaman, William Hall, Capt. Abraham Bush, Andrew Lion, James Jamisson, Thomas Brown, Gilbert Thaell, Jun., Joseph Merrit, Jun.,
" Timothy Wetmore, Esq., Jonathan Gedney,
" Daniel Erwin, " Roger Park, " Roger Kniffen, "John Hawkins, "Andrew Merrit, "Archibald Tilford, " Adam Seaman, " Rievers Morrel, "Abraham Miller, " Jonathan Knifien, " John Buvelot, "Gilbert Thaell, " Isaac Brown,
John Guion, Elijah Hains, John Affrey, Hack. Purdy, Charles Thaell, Esq., John Kniffen, John Park, Joshua Gedney, Ebenezer Brown, John Slater, Benjamin Kniffen, Nehemiah Wilson, Gilbert Morris, Jr.,
" Peter Florence."
Those w^jo are acquainted with the methods which are very often employed by audacious partisans or by tho.se more insidious supporters of a questionable proposition, for the instruction of an opponent in what way to do or to say what, if left to himself, he would not think of either saying or doing, in any manner, will be very likely to concur in the suspicion which prevails, that the following papers, each of them supplementary to the above-recited disclaimer and declaration, were the reasonable results of such, not always gentle, social or political or ecclesiastical or financial pressure as is, very generally, seen among the methods to which reference has been made.