I'Saumel Merrit was reported to the Provincial Congress, a second time ; arrested ; and thrown into the Prison at the Wiite Plains.
'8 Edward Palmer was a resident of Cortlandt's Manor ; and was subsequently accused of enlisting men for the Royal .\rmy. There are some reasons for supposing that he was the young man who was so ostentatiously hung, as a spy, by the order of General Putnam, in August, 1777, of which metition will be made hereafter.
Peter Drake was one of the Drakes of the Cortlandt Manor; and was an active Loyalist ; but waa not disturbed-- he was a Drake.
Peter Corney was reported to the Provincial Congress, a second lime ; arrested and taken before the "Committee on Conspiracies;" and permitted to go to Long Island, where he was peculiarly serviceable to those who desired to remove from that place. Because of this, the Committee of Safety and Committee on Conspinicies of the Provincial Congress, permitted his son-in-law to take and occupy his property ; but the local Committee of Sequestration disregarded that permission ; seized the property ; and sold it, under peculiarly distressing circumstances. {Ulitoricat Manuscripit, etc. : PetUiom, xxxiii., 522; the same : Mincellaneotis Papers, xxxvii., 95, 99 ; xxxviii., 147 ; Joni-nal of Committee of Safely, with Corney'e son-in law's affidavit, "Die Veneris, 4 ho., P.M "June 6, 1777.")
THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION, 1774-1783.
farmers of Westchestcr-county -- they would have been less than men, and unworthy of either respect or sympathy, had they remained passive spectators of what was then in progress, for the seizure of their persons, for the sequestration of their homes and of their estates, and for the impoverisliment of their aged parents, of their wives, and of their dependent children, without just cause, without due process of Law, and by those who were in acknowledged rebellion against their recognized Sovereign.