As has been already stated, the local Committee for Westchester-county was created on the eighth ol'May, 1775, ninety members having been miraculously created out of the material of which twenty-three were actually comjiosed ; and (iilbert Drake was made its Chairman.^ Micah Towiisend, subseiiuently holding other offices of Iioihu', in both Westchester and Cumberland-counties, was made the Secretary of that Committee ; ^ and its doings, as far as they were

2 Jouniat nf Iho Cniii/mn, " Piiii.ADEi.i'riiA, Wednesday, May 10, 177'>." Jmtniiit iif Ihf rrnriitriut ( 'timjrrmi^ *^ {'it\ Nkw-Vokk, .May '.iilnl, ** 177')," and addition, including the proceedings on the following; day.

< Cmh iill-iU nf Ih lr,i,ilex Id I'rni i„ri,il r„u<jms. May 8, \Ti->.--llisl<,r„ i,l MttintHi'fiplJt rt'lufire Ui Ihf Wur of tin' lii'fittiiliim ; Cfnlt-iitiiih of llrlrijiilrs^ xxiv., lltl ; llirimjtoii' H .Veic- V-i A- (.■i<rW/e.r, No. 1(18, Nkh -VoitK, 'liiurn- .lay. May U, 177,1.

Xhe I'mlrii/iaU ineiitioneil alK>ve were signetl *'Gilbkut Dkake, ** ClHtiniiaii ; bnt those of the Delegates ele<'ted to the .Second Provincial Congress, signed by the same person, bear the signature of " Oiluekt '• II. DitAKE, Cliiiiniiiiii." -- u/ .W<ll<li«cri/rf», etc.: IVeilenliaUof bthij'ilt', xxiv., (m.)

Hi»U>ricul Maniticrii'U^ etc.: Credentials of Oelt-ynteit^ x.xiv,. ti7.

HISTORY OF WESTCHESTER COUNTY.

recorded in the aiiiials of the County, will be duly noticed, as the narrative progresses.

The organization of the Provincial Congress, on the twenty-third of May, 1775, has been already mentioned and described : ' a more particular description of the membership of that body which, in the interest of those who were in rebellion, was to take places beside the several departments of the legally constituted Colonial (fovernment, in the government of tlie Colony, and which was to wield so important an influence over all who were within the Colony, seems to be incumbent on us, in this place.