^ Testimony of Colonel Gilbert Budd of Mmiiaroneelc^ before the I^orinrliil ( 'otitjrrns^ -- Jtnintal of tlie Prorineial OnnjrtHs^ " Die \*eneris, 10 h4». A.M.. " November !i, ITiri," {vide jnitje 302, ptmt.)

* This contlict between those who were executing the Orders of the f'uininittee of Safety, for the tlisarmameiit of those who had not signed tlie and those, in We.stchester-county, who were intended tu

have been the victims vf the Committee's aggressive policy, has been studiously concealed by all who have written on the subject of the .\iuerican Revolution ; but the Provincial Congress, on the twelfth of December, gave the fonnal thaidvs of that boily "to those of the In- " habitants of the Colony of Connecticut, who so cheerfully gave "their aid, at the request of the Committee of Westchester-connly. " in the late suppression of the Insurgents in that Omnty, against the "cause of Liberty." {Jottnutl of the Prorinrial Ctoii/reint. "Die Marlis, 3 "ho.. P.M.. Deer. 12tli, 177.'>,") which is ample authority, for the

i statenu-nt. in the text.

I ■> See pages SKI, 282, 283, ante.

I ''Oeneral Wottster and his connuand were encamped (»n property belonging to Arent Bussing, near Harlem, from the eighteenth of .lul>. preceding, {Jounml of Prorincial Co,iijr-ia, " Die Marti.s, !l ho., .\. M.. "July ISth, 177.'-..")

■ "General Wooster is at Harlem, with atwut 40<) men, which appear "to us to be unemployed," U.elliT from the Cintimitire of Safelij to the C'tmtiiiental Cotujregu, "In Committkk of Savkty fok Till; Coi.onv ok Nkw