It will be evident to the reader that, until the appointment of the "Committee for the County of West- " Chester," by the Meeting which was held at the White Plains, on the eighth of May, 1775, as has been already stated, there had not been even the slightest appearance of any central organization, for political purposes, within the County ; that, until they were crowded into the political arena, by the place-seekers who were among them, the hardworking farmers throughout the County had not permitted the political questions of the day to disturb their peaceful labors ; and that the place-hunting few, as insignificant in numbers as they were in honest patriotism,

apparent reason) appended to the Journal of the Provincial Convention, which Convention had adjourned a week before the Association waa written anil before it was known that any reason for such an Asuocialion was imminent. In de Laiicej 's .Vo(« to Jones's Historyof Xew-York durino the HevoUUionary War, i., 505, 500, it lijis been again re-printed, this time from the inaccurate re-print just referred to, and, of course, with its imperfections, together with a more serious omission than any whicli tliat had presented.

.Judge Jones, in his Hislorij of Sew Yorli, i,, 41^5, gave a very interesting account of the Association and of the Higning of it, warmly tinted, of course, with his peculiar bitterness; but, uevertheless, he is our principal authority 'on those subjects.

• This statement if the proceedings of the Meeting at which a Deputation vyas chosen to represent Westchester-county, in the first Provincial Congress, is made on the authority of the oQicial report of that Ileeting, signed by " James Vas Cortlandt, Chairman for the Day," and pub. lished in Rivington's New- York Gazetteer, No. 1()8, New- York, Thursday, May 11, 1775 ; and on that of the Credential*, signed by each of the twenty-three Members of the Committee for the County who were then present, which Credentials have been preserved among Credentials of Delegates, in the HiJttorical Manuscripts, relating to the War of the Revolu- (ion, in the Secretary of State's OCBcp at Albany, Volume XXIV., Pago 133.