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History of Westchester County, New York, Vol. I

Scharf, J. Thomas, ed. History of Westchester County, New York, including Morrisania, Kings Bridge, and West Farms, which have been annexed to New York City, Vol. I. Philadelphia: L.E. Preston & Co., 1886. 300 words

jected, also, that the titles of those who had signed the Declaration and Protest were appended to the names of those to whom they respectively belonged ; but a reference to the official report of the proceedings of that Meeting, signed by himself and evidently from his own pen, to which reference has been made, will show to any one that the specific titles of " Mr. , " " Esq., " " Captain," " Major," and " Colonel," were added to eighteen of the twenty-six names which that report contained -- indeed, he had given the distinctive title of "Colonel," to himself, in three different places, in that report ; and that, too, without a word of apology. He insinuated that one hundred and seventy of those who had signed the Protest were not voters -- " alter the most diligent inquiry, " I cannot find they have the least pretensions to "vote," he said ; adding, " and indeed, many of them "are lads under age" -- but he conveniently omitted to make a direct and positive averment of such a want of qualification, in anyone of those protestants ; and he also conveniently failed to designate which of the one hundred and seventy whom he named, in any single instance, was a minor. Most of all, he disregarded the fact that the Declaration and Protest, to which he assumed to make a reply, had made no pretension to having been made exclusively by " Free- " holders," but, on the contrary, it was thus headed : " We the subscribers, freeholders and inhabitants of "the county of Westchester, having assembled at the " White Plains, in consequence of certain advertise- " ments," etc., from which every appearance of exclusiveness, in the signers of it, was expressly excluded.