"On the 28th day of March last, the following " Gentlemen having received letters from the Chair- " man of the Committee of the City and County of " New-York relative to the appointment of Deputies " for this County, met at this place for the purpose of " devising means for taking the Sense of this County " upon the Subject, viz :

" Col. Lewis Morris, Theodosiiis Barlow, Esq., *

" Thomas Hunt, William Sutton, Esq.,

" Abraham Leggot, Capt. Joseph Drake,

" James Horton, Jr., Esq., James Willis, " Stephen Ward, Benjamin Drake,

" Abraham Guion, Esq., Moses Drake,

" who having taken the Same into consideration, "agreed to send 'the following notification to the "principal freeholders in the different Towns and " districts in the County, viz --

" ' March 28th, 1775. " ' Sir. a number of gentlemen from different dis- " ' tricts in the county of Westchester having this " ' day met at the White Plains to Consider of the " ' most proper method of taking the Sense of the " ' Freeholders, of the said County, upon the Expedi- '' ' ency of choosing Deputies to meet the Deputies of " ' the other Counties, for the purpose of Electing

has ever been engaged, was carried through Westchester-county in known opposition to the great body of its inhabitants, and in the face of a formal Protest of a larger number, by only a factional minority, in the interest of an aspiring politician, and while that minority was staggering under the evil influences of the New England Bum which had been freely dispensed, for that particular purpose.