" While deaf to this call, Ihey would not he made to listen to the Orders "of a Committee or the Resolves of a Conjcress. If enemies, the sense *'of present danger, operating on the fii"st law of nature, would prompt "them to keep within their power, their only sure means of defem.'-. "In either case, the idea of taking away their arms, by a compulsory " impressment, had little to recommend it, either in policy or prudence." -- {Life of (lonvtnieiir Mnrrix, i., G3.)

The Doctor reasoned, above, on the ground that the Order of tlic Committee wius an isolated act, disconnectetl with any other of the class ; and he rei\s<meil well, on that premise; but the fart was, another OnUrhad just been made, iti xrcrft. to seize the persons and properties of those who Were obnoxious to the Committee and its sulH)rdinate0 ; auri it was considered necessary, for the safety of the marauders, to deprive the sei-retly proposed victims of that earlier enactment, of their means for defence, before it commenced, openly, its work of lawlessness and untrage, on the persons and properties of those who had buen or wlio should, thenceforth, be designated as its victims.

■- l.i'llT frmn Mitjnr Il'iVdiim 11 i7/i<iiiik In llif lA^iiiuiilln i,j Sfl>V/v, "Jam.vii".^, September '2,'>th, 10 o'clock, l*.M."

M^or Williams appears to have lieen a resident of (Queens-county.

in other connections, that the men of that County, like those of (iueeus-county, armed themselves, and patroled the County, in large parties, to guard against surprises ; declaring their determination to defend themselves, and saying " that if any body came to " their houses to take away their Arms, they would " lire upon them." ' Itappears, also, that the declaration was fully sustained ; that the united farmers proved more than a match for the local Militia and the other troo})s which the Chairman of the County Committee had been authorized to call for his supl)ort ; and that, for the more effectual accomplishment of his purposes, that Chairman had assumed still further authority, by calling on the floating po])ulation of the neighboring Towns, in Connecticut, for reinforcements^ -- as the Chairman of the County Committee wa.s authorized by the Committee of Safety, to call for the entire Militia of the County, already seem to have been sufficient to fill three Regiments,'' and as many of General Wooster's command of Connecticut troops, then encamped below Harlem," and numbering "about 400 men," ' as should be ret|uired, that opposition must have been wide-spread and resolutely maintained, in Weslchester-county, which had retjuired, in addition to all these, for its supi)ression, an additional force, drawn from what may be properly called the Swiss Guards of Colonial America, mercenaries, who, while they i)rofessed to have been ardent friends ot Freedom, were, nevertheless, whenever they could see any possible advantage to their individual interests, constantly ready to enlist in any service, outside of Connecticut, and to become, in their new associations, the most devoted of all supporters of despotism and the most relentless of all persecutors of those, no matter of what country, who dared to (juestion the sanctity of the assumed authority of those who employed them.