Gilbert Drake, were duly " elected agreeable to the resolves of the Provincial Congress, to repre- " sent this county until the Second Tuesday of May next ; and that it " w;is voted by the people that any three of the said Deputies shall act "for this county. Dated the 7th day of November, 1775.

" By order of the Committee,

"Gilbert H. Dh.\ke, Chairman.

"A true copy from the minutes taken by I " MlClH Tow.N'SEND, Clerk of the Committee." I

Graham, Stephen Ward, Esq., Colonel Joseph Drake, Robert Graham, Esq., John Thomas, Junior, Esq., William Paulding, Major Ebenezer Lockwood, Colond Pierre Van Cortlandt, and Colonel Gilbert Drake * were elected ; and that any three of these should have authority to represent Westchester-county in the coming Provincial Congress -- Gouverneur Morris, James Van Cortlandt, Philip Van Cortlandt, James Holmes, and David Dayton, all of whom had been members of the preceding Congress having been dropped, and Major Ebenezer Lockwood and Colonels Pierre Van Cortlandt and Gilbert Drake sent in their stead.

The day appointed for the organization of the new Provincial Congress was the fourteenth of November; but, on that day, there was not even a respectable minority of the Delegates present, which may well be considered as indicative of the coolnes-* with which the Rebellion was regarded by the great body of the Colonists, in New York, even at that early period; and of how little warrant there had been, in fact, for the outrages which had been committed by the preceding Congress and by its Committees, in their name.