It reipiired eight tlays fur the Committee's letter and Order to reach the busy Deputies and to arnst their eager searches for Pork ami Flour; bnt on the eighth day, [April \), 177(1, J ( -olonel Draki- rei)orted that he, and .John Thomas, Junior, and Major J.iO( kwood, three of the migratory Deputies, had bought about one thousand barrels of the former and six hundred barrels of the latti'r ; ' from which one may learn soniethingoftlie produetiveiiessof Colonial Westj chester-county, in 1775, notwithstanding the disturbances, already referred to, to which its inhabitants had been so freijuently and so seriously subji'cted -- the
j usual Autumn and Winter sales of these two staple articles had been undoubteiUy made ; e.vtraordinary sales had been nuide for the Northern .\riiiy and lor distant i)laces, many of them having been made matters of ofiicial record; the home-eonsuni))! ion had bi'en sup])lie<l, freely, during the Autumn, the Winter, and the early S|)ring ; and the necessary sn|)plies, also for the lunne consumiition, until the following
' .\utumn, Inul been undoubtedly reserved ; l)nt the supply was not exhausted ; and a thousand barrels of
: salted Pork and six hundretl barrels of Flour had been found and purchased, on the account of the Provincial Congress, within the limited period of three weeks, and within the limits of that single County. The Westchester-county farmers of our own period, with their greater numbei's and greater area of tillable ground, with their modern appliances of artificial manures and improved imi)lements -- none of them, at that time, even hoped for -- and with all the improved