The first of these acts of terrorism, exercised by the rampant revolutionary elements in Westchestercounty, was that in the case of Jonathan Fowler and George Cornwell, two respectable residents of the County, both of whom had signed the Declaraiion and Protest, at the White Plains, on the eleventh of April, as well as the Eesolves which were referred to, in that Declaration and Protest, both of whom were compelled by that, so called, " public opinion," to publish a recantation of their evidently well-considered political opinions, which was done in the following words, carefully copied from the original publication, in Gaine's New- York Gazette: and the Weekly Mercury, No. 1229, New- York, Monday, May 1, 1775:

"To THE Printer.

" "\TTE tlie subscribers do hereby make this YV public Declaration, That whereas we " and several others in Westchester-County, having " signed a certain Number of Resolves, which at the " Time of our said signing, we deemed Constitutional, " and as having a Tendency to promote the Interest "of our Country; but since, upon mature Delibera- " tion, and more full Knowledge of the Matter, find " not only injurious to our present Cause, but like- " wise offensive to our Fellow Colonists. We do " therefore thus publicly testify our Abhorrence of " the same, and declare ourselves Friends to the Colo- " nies, and ever ready cheerfully to exert ourselves "in the Defence and Preservation of the same.

" Jonathan Fowler, Esq.

" George Corxweli., Esti.

" 29th April, 1775."