" ' 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.
3 The narrative, signed by " Lewis Morris, C/ni/rni/iii," already referred to, ha« afforded a sufficient authority, for all that has been said, in the text, concerning the Meeting, after the protestants had left the Courthouse.
*.\lthough the name was thus written, in the original manuscript, there can be no doiibt that reference was made to Theo<losius Bartow, second son of the Eev. John Bartow, the fiist Rector of the Parish of Westchester. Mr. Bartow snbseq\iently held the comfortable and profitable jdace of a "Commissary at Xew Rocbelle ; " and his son, (subsequently Rector of St. Matthew's Church, at Bedford) held the profitable place of (Juarter-master, in the Fim Westchester-county Regiment.