History of Westchester County, New York, Vol. I

^- Journal of the Provincial Congress, " Die Jovis, 3 ho., P. 31., December "14, 1775;" ««m«, " Die Veneris, 10 ho., A.M., Deer. 15, 1775;" Wie eam«, " Die Mercurii, 10 ho., A.M., Feb. 21, 1770;" (Ac soni«', " Die " Lunte, 3 lio., P.M., March 4, 1776 ; " the same, " Die Mercurii, 10 ho., "A.M., March 13, 1776 ;" Journal of the Committee of Safety, "i ho., "P.M., Feb. 10, 1776;" the same, "Die Luna;, 10 ho., A.M.," and "4 "ho., P.M.," " March 18, 1776 ;" the same, "Die MercHrii,4 ho., P.M., "April 17, 1776; " etc.

The great quantities of Wheat, Flour, fresh and salted Beef and Pork, Hams, smoked Beef, Tallow, Lard, Poultry, and other products of the farms in Westchester-county, which, notwitbstamling the disturbances which the farmers sustiiined, were marketed, exclusively of the supplies sent on the multitude of Market sloo|>s to the City of New York, during

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sometimes in the neighboring City; sometimes for the uses of distant communities, who sent there, for supplies; sometimes for the uses of the Armies, in the field ~ and, whenever an opportunity was afforded, to the men-of-war, in the harbor. The loCal Committees, sometimes, consequentially assumed to interrupt their traffic ; ^ and the Committee of Safety, in order to prevent ''sundry persons from Connecticut" from purchasing, for the evident purpose of forestalling the market, "requested the Committee of the County " of Westchester to take effectual means to prevent " the sale and transportation of any barrelled Beef "or Pork out of Westchester-county, to any person or "persons residing out of this Colony, or for the use of " any person or persons residing out of this Colony, " until the further order of the Provincial Congress " or of the Committee of Safety of this Colony ; " but, nevertheless, the fertility of the County and the patient industry of the greater number of those who lived therein were known and utilized, throughout the entire seaboard.