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.

Although the Assembly had been prorogued to meet on the tenth of January, 1775, the members from the distant Counties were not present on that day, nor on several succeeding days; and, on the twentieth of that month, a "Call of the House" was ordered to be made on the seventh of February ensuing ; and the Clerk of the House was ordered to write to the absent Members, to require their punctual attendance on that day,' both factions of the House evidently understanding tl>at that particular " Call of " the House " carried with it, in honor if in nothing else, the additional provision that no leading ([ucstion which was likely to be brought before the Assembly, during that Session, should be thus introduced, until after that " Call " should have been made, agreeably to that Order.- It appears, however, that the minority was strengthened by the arrival of two of the absentees, wiihin a few days after the " Call " had been ordered and nearly a fortnight before the day on which it was ordered to be made -- at which time, too, it appeared to the minority that it had temporarily acquired the control of the House -- and the majority was surprised, on the twenty-sixth of January, by