It was in these words :

" Westchester County, White Plains. "TTTHEREAS, there was a petition published in YV "Rivington's paper, some time past, that "forty five of the freeholders and inhabitants, be- " sides Miles Oakley, did sign a petition -- I did sign " a petition, something like it, by being misled ; and " afterwards being informed into the right state of "the matter, I got the petition, and struck my name "out, and forwarned the Esq. A. H -- not to return "my name and he swore by God he would; and "many others that signed it, has told me, they was " sorry they had any concern in signing the petition.

" MILES OAKLEY, and " DANIEL HORTON."

There was no portion of the County of Westchester, in which the conservatism of the inhabitants was so general and so decided in its character, as in the Manor of Cortlandt ; '- and. during the Winter

1 On tlie Sth of3Iay, 1775, 3Iiles Oakley was appointed a member of the County Committee, (mi'c ;«(</(■ -- ,pi>sl;)man afterwards, he received a Warrant for Second Lieutenant in Captain Mills's Company ; (i i<lr piajK -- , and he served in that office, under Colonel Holmes, in the bloodless Campaign of 177.'> ; leaving the service, when the Campaign closed.-- (J/i.>V«W<ri/ MiiiiiisrriplK, etc. ; Mililnnj Coniinillri-, xxv., 04.)

J)aniel Horton, whose name accompanied that of Miles Oakley, on the disclaimer now under notice, was a resident of Rye ; and in the re-organization of the Jlilitia of the County, he was made Second Lieutenant of the Rye an<l JIamaroneck Company, commanded by Captain Robert Bloomer.