Among the conservative farmers of Westchestercounty, generally, it is believed that the result of the Congress was not satisfactory -- as will be seen, hereafter, some of the most influential of them, who had heartily approved the popular movement for the redress of the Colony's grievances, and who had earnestly united with their countrymen in calling the Congress, were forced to the seeming inconsistency of open dissent; and there was significance in that dissent, while such other communities as the Towns of HoUis, in New Hampshire;' Marshfield, in Massa-

Proceeding!! of the T'Jini, in legal Town-JIeeting, November 7, 1774, reprinted in Force's Anm-i'dii Archh-i-s, Fourtli Series, i., 1229.

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chusetts;' Ridgefield, Newtown,^ Stratfield, (now Bridgeport,)' Greenwich,'' Danbury and its vicinity,*^ Darien," Norwalk." Redding," Stamford,'" New Milford," Morris,'- Plymouth,'^ Salisbury," etc., indeed the entire western portion of the Colony,'Mn Connecticut; Oyster Bay,'" Jamaica," Shawangunk,'* all those in Richmond-county,'^ in New York, and many others,"'

^ Lellfi- from Murshfield to a Guutltman in Boetoii, January 24, 1775, piiblislied in IthimjtOH' s Xeir-York il(i~>'lli-er. No. 95, New-Yokk, Tlmrstlav, February 9, 177.5, reprinteil in Force's .iinericaii Archiees, Fourth Series, i., 1177, 1778 ; E.rtrnct of a tetter from lioston to a Gentlemtiii ill Xeic-York, January 20, 1775, reprinted in the same work, i., 1178; Piiifeediiigs of llie Tom, in legal Town-Meeting, 20th February, 1773, reprinted in the same work, i., 1249 ; I'rotest of sljtii four of the Inhotiiliiiiti of the Toini, 20tli February, 1770, re printed in the same work, i., 1249, 1260.