History of Westchester County, New York, Vol. I

I of the Company, and had received only twelve of the sixty votes which were cast for that office;* and, of course, the Committee of Safety of the County transmittecl the affidavit to the Provincial Coni gress, promising to supplement what w;us then i sent with evidence that Cock had "spoken very dis- I "respectfully of the Congress;"' and invitingthat body ! to withhold the Commission to which Cock was en-

■ titled under the provisions of the Congress's own enactment.^ Six days afterwards, fifty-nine of the

' Inhabitants of Yonkers jjresented a Petition to the

■ Committee of Safety, justifying their action in elect- I ing Cock as their Captain, and asking that he might 1 be commissioned, as such;" but Isaac Green, one of

' "before the Committee of Safety for the Ciiunty aforesaid, and beiof; ] "duly sworn on the Holy Evangelists of the Almighty God, saith that *'lie the De|)oneiit betn^; appointed one of the Sub-Ck>nimittee for the j " superintending the signing of the General AMofialion of this Province, ! "carried the sanie to one, .lohn Cock, of the Vonkei's, in said County, I "and asked the said John Cock to sign the siinie ; he, the said .lohn "Cork taking the jien in his hand uttered the following words: ' I sign "'this with my hand, but not with my heart, for I would not have " ' signed it li.id it iKit been for my wife and family's sake : ' and this he "several times rt'peated in the hearing of him the Deponent. Arid " further the Deponent Kiith not.