• 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.

- The Provincial Congress, on the twenty-ninth of ,Iune, 1775, issued a Warrant to David Dan, as First Lieutenant, under Captain Jonathan Piatt.

^ The Provincial Congress, on the twenty-ninth of June, 1775, issued a Warrant to Jonathan Piatt, its Captain.

did not constitute even a respectable minority of those who were heads of families and householders, throughout the County.* It will be seen, also, that the Morris family, strengthened by itsalliance with its kindred family of Graham, had fully entrenched itself, as the political head of the County ; and it will be particularly noticed of what kind of material Delegiites were made, even at that early period of the revolutionary movement in Westchester-county, the most ill-disguised monarchists and even office-holders holding Commissions under the Crown, from among the non-producing class iu that purely agricultural community, boldly, if not audaciously, assuming to be in harmony with the industrial masses whom they really despised, and crowding forward, in their greed for place and emoluments, to seize whatever opportunity for advancement, their ingenuity and their superior intelligence should place within their reach.