While the Meeting at the Courthouse was thus quietly engaged in the continued disciiarge of " the " business of the day," those who had protested, before it, against the call for the Meeting as well as against its proposed proceedings, returned to Captain Hatfield's Tavern, where they were joined, during the afternoon, by " many of their friends ;" and "they

• In some of tlio re-prints of tliis paper, tliis word is calleJ " quietlj' : " we have i>referre(i to use the word which was used by the author, iu the original niainiscript.

- Tliis is an exiict copy of the original manuscript, which was used as the Credentials of the Deputies and has been preserved in the t'redtnlialt of Iteletjttltn, \'oluine xxiv., Page Jo, Jlixturii-nt Mitum^rrijitu rehui»<t (f the War of the HevoUiImn, in the Office of the Secretary of State, at .\llianv.

HISTORY OF WESTCHESTER COUNTY.

" proceeded to draw up and sign a Declaration, which " they seemed to do," it is said, " with as much pat- "riotic zeal as ever warmed the hearts of true and " faithful Subjects; and, afterwards, they dispersed to "their different habitations.' "

A narrative of the events was subsequently written, probably by Isaac Wilkins, and, with the Declaration affixed, it was printed in the newspapers of the day, where, from that day to this, they have remained, serving as authorities in the history of that period. The narrative and the Declaration are in these words :