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.

2 Illustrative of the statement made in the text, is the following, taken from tho' L'pi'"ll Clippinris. iv.,2!)7, in the Library of the New York Historical Society: "It is said that at least tliiee-fourths of the people "in Cortlandt's Manor, New York, have declared their unwillingness to "enter into the Congressional measures : that a great number of the " people in general in Westchester County are preparing to do the like ; "and that the AsKuriation against the Continental Congress has been "signed by three hundred persons in the neighborhood of Poughkeepsie "only. Many lists are sent about Dutchess County, on which also "many hundreds have subscribed."

As far as it related to Westchester-county, the above was copied from Gaine'a -Veif-l </)■/,■ Gazelle: itiiil the Weckli/ Mercurij, Xo. 1220, New- Y'oRK, Monday, February 27, 1775.