History of Westchester County, New York, Vol. I

It is positively and authoritatively stated, that, with the exception, the only exception, of one, who, when " he was at some "distance" -- out of harm's way -- turned and "gave them the guts "of his gun," not a single gun was tired by the Colonists. Those curious to learn more on that subject -- that " Battle " in which one of the parties did all the firing, and the other all the KUNMNt; -- may find the testimony in Dawson's Jlnttles of the I'nited Stateif hij Sea and Ijmd^ .\rticle "Lexix(;ton C'o.vcoBn;" Force's American Archives,

Fourth Series, ii., 489-601 ; etc.

5 The most grapliic account of the proceedings, in the City of New- Y'ork, on that memorable Sunday, as far as we have knowledge of the subject, is that presented by Judge Jones, in his Hittunj o f Xeic York diirinij the ReroUilionnni War, (i., 39-41.)

<> The Committee of Inspection had recommended the dissolution of that Committee, because it was invested with [wwers respecting only the " ,Uxocm/i")j " of the Continental C<!ngre88 ; and it had also recommended the election of a new C'ommitli-e of one hundred penwjns, thirtythree of whom should be a quorum, all of whom should retire and the Committee be " dissolved within a fortnight next after the end of the I "next Session of the Continental Congress."

I The "Committee of One hundred," which was thus called, snbse- I quently became the lo<'al Conimitteo of the Revolutionary element, in