That, on Monday the 3d of March, "the Inhabitants of the Borough of Westchester met, in Consequence of " a Summons, to give their Sentiments upon a Qiiesti ^n, whether or not "they would choose Deputies to represent them at a Provincial Conveu- " tiou in this City ; when they declared themselves already very ably "and efleotually repre>iented in the General Assembly of this Province, "by Isaac Wilkins, E8(|uire ;* peremptorily disowned aH'Cougrossional "Conventions and Committees, most loyally repeating the old Chonis, " (iod save the King, which was seconded by three heaity Cheers ; and '• then the jolly Freeholders and Inhabitants spent the Day with great " Hilarity and good Humour over their Tankards and Bowls."-- (Oaine's Xt'W'York iliizettf, anil the Week-li/ Mercurif^ No. 12'JG, New-Yobk, JIon<lay, April 10, 177ii.)
■'This api>eal, an exact copy of the original, was printed in Uirinijlua' t Siir-York Gtizetleer, No. 103, New-Yobk, Thursday, April 6, 1775.
*The wife of Isaac Wilkins was Isabella Morris, sister of Oouvemeiir and half-sister of Colonel Lewis Morris, the head of tliat family.
HISTORY OF WESTCHESTER COUNTY.
It is reasonable to suppose that many of the farmers of Westuhester-county, whatever their political opinions may have been, were nlore than usually excited by these extraordinary appeals and by others which have not been preserved, addressed to them by those whom they had hitherto regarded as leaders in political affairs ; but it is equally clear that not even those extraordinary means, thus employed, were successful in withdrawing even a respectable minority of the Freeholders, to say nothing of those heads of families who were not Freeholders, who, at that time, inhabited that extensive and thickly settled County, from their homesteads and from the urgent duties, at home, which the opening Spring had imposed upon them. Notwithstanding all the reasons which existed for their continued attention to their respective home duties, however, there were some, relatively a small proportion, of either party, those who were opposed to the Morrises and to the proposition to elect Deputies to a proposed Convention of the Colony and those who favored both, who went to the Plains, on that Tuesday morning, the eleventh of April, as, respectively, they had been requested to go.