ment ; and there is very little evidence, as far as wc have been able to fiiul any, which indicates that the several Towns throughout the County paid any attention to the recommendation of the Congress, lor the ap[)ointinent of Town-committees; ' and there is no evidence whatever, that any attempt was made, in any of those Towns, to obtain the signatures of the body of the iuhabitanls of the County, to the Genmd A-ssociafiun which had been enacted by the Continental Congress of 1774, nor to any other such Association-^ -- the Provincial Congress had done no more than, nominally, to " recomnientr' to the inhabitants to sign the AsKuiiatiun ; ^ it not only did not authorize the employment of force in order to obtain signatures thereto, but it expressly ilisclaimed, in advance, the entertainment of any such idea ; ' the Congress itself, by a formal vote, had i)Ostponed a formal api)roval of that General Assoriatiim as well as all of the other tloings of the Continental Congress, who had enacted it ; " and, for these reasons, as well as for others with which the reader is already familiar, the conservative yeomanry of Westchestercounty was not in a hurry to either recognize or sign it.

The Committee of the Provincial Congress who had been ajipoiiited to consider the very important subject of the Currency, for the support of the Rebellion, made a very clear and able Report, on the thirtieth of May, in which some of the commercial troubles produced or likely to be produced by the Rebellion were very graphically presented; and an issue