History of Westchester County, New York, Vol. I
Notwithstanding the Despatches of Lieutenant-governor Colden to the Home Government, which are (and have been, since 1775) accessible to everybody, abundantly prove that the Colonial Government possessed no more influence, which it could exercise over the .\ssembly, than was possessed by any other political opponent. -- that, in fact, that b(«ly was not in harmony w ith the Government, and acted adversely to the hopes of the. Government -- Murray, (Imparliiit Jlislory, HMorff of Cii il U'ur
in AmmcH, Dublin: 1779, i., 68 ; Soule, {HMoiie des TioiihUs, i., 129 etc., assert that whatever action was taken by the House, was uuder the influence of the Lieutenant-governor of the Colony.
The action, on the great questions of the day, which the .\s5embly took, from day to day, tells its own story, wherever it is known, and stamps the brand of infidelity to their duties, as historians, on by far the greater number of those who have undertaken to discharge those duties, oa these particular subjects.
THE AMERICAN KE\'OLUTION, 1774-1783.
were of the majority of that body, which has been already described ; and because of the prominent jiarts which those Representatives of that County respectively took, in the debates concerning the momentous questions which were considered and determined in that Assembly, and because of the ills which befell three of those Representatives, because of what they had respectively said and done in that Assembly, there is no portion of the history of revolutionary New York which possesses a deeper interest to those who are of the Westchester-county of more recent days, than that which relates to the action taken by that General Assembly of the Colony of New York, on the political grievances under which the Colony was then said to have been laboring, on the Colonial policy of the Home Government through which those alleged grievances had been inflicted on the Colonies, on the means which were best adapted to the redress of those alleged grievances, and on its employment of those means for that purpose.