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

" VoHK, nUKINO THE KF.<'K.<S OK THE PROVIM IAI. C0MIKR.S.S NeW-VoHK,

"Sept. 1», 1775.''^

HISTORY OF WESTCHESTER COUNTY.

It is proper that notice shall he taken, in this connection, of the fact that the Provincial Congress, on the twenty-fourth of October, twenty days after that body had returned to its place and to its work and thirty-eight days after its Committee of Safety had adopted and published the Resolution and Orders, "relating to the impressment of Arms," wliich have been thus described and denounced, passed a formal Resolution " disapproving " and, therefore, abrogating them ; ^ but the mischief which had necessarily proceeded from the adoption and publication and attempts to execute that Resolution and those Orders, could not be undone; the wounds which had been inflicted, were too deep to be healed by such an emollient; and an increased and constantly increasing bitterness of feeling, between the conservative and the revolutionary portions of the inhabitants, was every where seen, scattering its baleful and ruinous influence, from one extreme of the County to the other.