The Congress appears to have been in one of it^ j temperate moods when that delegation from tlu chivalry of ( 'olonial Westchester-county, bearing th( missive from the Goinmittce of that County and it^ kindred Affidavit, approached its doors; and for that reason, unless it was because of the siiallovvness of the ! several accusations and re()ue.sts which were in the papers or of the poltroonery of those who bore them the Congress did no more than to order the letter and affidavit and examination to be filed; to charge all who knew of "this mattei," "to keef) the whole of it "a secret;" and to transmit a letter to the Committeeol Westchester-county -- the latter, the most noteworthy

1 Samuel Townseiiil represented the Tiiwn of Kye, in tlie County Committee of 177ii-'7.

- On tlie tweuty-ninth of .\ugust, ITTii, "one I.ounsl)erry of Westcliester '' County who had headed a party of ahoiit 14 Tories wsis killed by a I'er- '*son named Flood on his refusal to surrender himself Prisoner ; That in *'hi8 Pocket hook was found a O'tiuniission signed hy Genl. llow to " Major Rogers empowering him to raise a Battalion of Rangers with the "Rank of Lieut (^ol Coninianilant. Thai annexed to tin's Wiis aWarranl " U) this Louiisherry signed by Major Rogers appointing him Cajitain in " one of these Companies .V a Muster Roll of the men already enlisted," [Letier fr(mi the OmmiW'e uf HiifHij t/t Hi'ui'i-al WitshitiijUni, " Is CnMjirr- " TKE OF Safktv, Harlem, Augt liOtli, 177G." )