" "\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."

As both the signers of that recantation were evidently intelligent men, one of them having been, at that time, one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of the County, it is not probable that 'they had signed those Resolves -- no mention having been made of the Declaration and Protest -- without having understood the effect of their action on " the common cause;"

HISTORY OF WESTCHESTER COUNTY.

and the offence which thej^ had given \o their neighbors, or to such of them as could inflict injurj' on them or on their property, was clearly the cause which produced their recantation.

The second of those acts of terrorism, to which reference has been made, was that in the case of Isaac ^Vilkins, that leading Member of the General Assembly of the ColoTiy, in its contest with the Home Government; that very able "A. W. Farmer " who, with his pen, had aroused so much indignation ; and that spokesman of the protestants, at the Meeting at the White Plains, with whom the reader is well acquainted.