He lived at Tarrytown.
Klijah Miller was a resident andoneof the Snl>-committee of Northcastle.
'This statement is made on the authority of a Letter frotn CI ilhrrt Dnike, Clinirnmn of the Conntij Commillei; to IIik Proviiiriul CoiujreM, "White Plains, October 24th, 177.1." The Jonrtial of the I'roviticuil CoiM^rcw, (" Die Mercurii, 10 ho., A.M., October, 177.5,") shows the receipt of the letter, by that body, and the issue of the Commiaeiious to the several gentlemen named.
those who were dependent on the unfortunate victims."
While these provisions of that enactment were ])eculiarly oppressive on that class of i)overty-stricken working-men and boys, in the Cities, then largely unemployed, who had been the ever-ready, ever- noisy, and ever-destructive auxiliaries of the revolutionary faction, in all the riotous demonstrations of the preceding ten years, and while these enactments, therefore, in those instances, appeared to be somewhat retributive in their character and operations, they were, also, very oppressive on many a farmer in Westchestercounty, who had been more peaceful in his inclinations and conduct than those working-men, in the Cities, had been. Indeed, the required equipment, in specified form, of themselves, and their boys, and their hired help -- their well-tried Ibwling-pieces having been unavailable for that i)iirpose -- and the stated withdrawal of all of them from their farms, for drill, on frequent, specified days, no matter how necessary their presence, at home, might have been, were unduly burdensome on all those farmers, to say nothing of the opportunity which was thereby atlbrded, very soon afterwards, for still greater acts of lawless oppression, in the seizure of those very equipments,