Scott, of the City of New-York, they were taken into coasideration -- that portion of them which directed the fortifying of Kiugsbridge, w;ls referred to Captain Richard Montgoniery, of Ducheas-county, llenry Glenn' and Robert Yates, of AJbany-county, and Colj quel .lames Van Cortlandt aud Colonel James I Holmes, of Weslchest^r-county, with orders " to view ' " the ground at or near King's Bridge, and re])ort to " this Congress whether the ground near King's "Bridge will admit of making a fortification there, " that will be tenable ; and at what particular place "the ground will admit of making the best and "most tenable fortification : and that they call to "their assistance such persons as they shall think , " neces.sary, aud make re])()rt to this Congress, with all " convenient speed : " that portion of them which directed the erection of fortifications in the Highlands, on the Hudson-river, wjus referred to Colonel James Clinton and Christopher Tappan, both of Ulster-county, with orders to " take to their Jissistance "^such persons as they shall think necessary ; to go to " the Highlands, and view the banks of Hudson's " river there ; aud to report to this Congress the most " proper place for erecting one or more fortifications ; "aud, likewise, an estimate of the expense that will " attend erecting the same." *

Both theiie Resolutions were initiatory of prolonged and not always harmonious and agreeable proceedings, both without and within the Provincial Congress and both without and within the Congre.ss of the Continent, all of which can be considered with greater propriety iu the local publications concerning the Towns of Kingsbridge aud Cortlandt and in the general publications concerning the War of the American Revolution, than in a general Hisfary nf the County of Wr-if Chester; and, for that reason and with this introductory send-off, the construction of those military works to which the liesolutions referred will receive no further attention, in this narrative.