History of Westchester County, New York, Vol. I

them of Eye or Mamaroneck, are already known to the reader, in the sad story of the Sloop PoUtj iiiid Aim, {page 295, ante ;) and .lamesaud William Lounsberry ; Isaac, John, and Joshua Gedney ; John Fowler ; Isaac and Peter Valentine ; Isaac, Joseph, and Joshua Purdy ; William Armstrong ; William Sutton ; John Flood ; James, John, Thomas, and William Haines ; and Joshua Burrell, besides several others, were artreated, while they were prisoners.* They were plundered of their Arms, again and again, sometimes by Connecticut-men called in by the County Committee^ or by the brutal General Charles Lee,' and sometimes by orders from the Provincial Congress or its Committee of Safety ; * levies were made on her Militia, for the construction of the defensive works in the City of New York ; ' and two Companies of the new Regiments in the New- York Line of the Continental Army were assigned to be raised in Westchester-county.'" It is also noteworthy, as a portion of the history of that period, that Westchester-county afforded the first evidence of the alteration of a Provincial Bill of Credit -- one of the last emission, for five dollars, having been altered so that it appeared to have been one of ten dollars."

The opening of the new year -- the exact date does not appear, if it was ever definitely known -- witnessed a transaction by which the lower portion of the County of Westchester, especially the Towns of Mamaroneck, Eastchester, Westchester, and Yonkers, was greatly disturbed ; and yet it was an occurrence