"The first Thing done by the People of this place in consequence of "the Resolutions of the Congress, was the Pissolntion of the Committee "of 51, in order to choose a new Committee of Inspection, to carry the " Jleasnres of the Congress into elTect. \ Day wius apjiointed by Adver- " tisement fur choosing sixty Persons to form this Committee. About 30 "or 4(1 Citizens only appeared at the Election, & chose the CO wlio had "been previously named by the former Committee. I can no otherwise " my Lord account for the very small number of People who appeared on " this occasion, than by supposeing that the Measures of the Congress "are generally Disrelished." -- {Lirtileuiiiil-gnrrnior CoUten to the Earl of Ihvtmniilh, No. 9, " New York, December 7th, 1774.")

■** Lieuteiiatit-goL-enior CoUtfn to Ctiptuin Moitfaijitc, " New-York, 8 Feby, "1775;" the mine to General (t'<i<;c, " New-York, 20tli Kebry, 1775:"' the '• name to the F.url of Ikirlniouth, "New York, 1st March, 1775 ;" Jones's IliMonj nf Sew York diirimj the UevoUitiomiry War, i., 3i ; Leake's 3Tetnoir of General John Lamb, 97 ; etc.

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HISTORY OF WESTCHESTER COUNTY.

enlisiing her farmers in the support and execution of the Association or of any other of the measures or recommendations of the recent Congress, may have been or may have proposed, they were evidently entirely disregarded ; and that, at least as recently as the early Winter of 1774-75, there was not sufficient interest, friendly to the revolutionary movements •which were so deeply exciting the inhabitants of the neighboring City, within any portion of that rural County, to do even the paltry service of circulating those Circular Letters throughout the Towns ; although there were a few, a very few, who were beginning to look favorably on those movements, and to talk and write, in the support of them.