: 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

• facilities of transit and of transportation which they

i now possess, may reasonably hang their heads, in humiliation, on a comparison of the results of their labors with the results of the labors of those industrious, prudent, ami thrifty men who jireceded them, with smaller numbers and none of the advantages which are now accessible to every one.

Reference has been nuide to the action of the Provincial Congress encouraging the establishment of Powder-mills, and offering loans for that purpose, without interest, to proper persons, in specified Counties, of which Westchester was one. Although no mention was subseipiently nnide of the establislij ment of such a Mill within the limits of Westchester-

! county, the fact that such an otler was nuide affords another testimony to what has been already adduced concerning the i)eaceful disposition of the farmers, throughout that County, even in the face of the greatest

* Joiinml of llie CommiUee of Sufetij, " Die Lunse, 9 ho., A.M., April 1, •'1776."

^Juiinial of the CommiUee of Safelij, " Die Uercurii, 4 lio., P.M., \\<n\ " 17, 1776."