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History of Westchester County, New York, Vol. I

Scharf, J. Thomas, ed. History of Westchester County, New York, including Morrisania, Kings Bridge, and West Farms, which have been annexed to New York City, Vol. I. Philadelphia: L.E. Preston & Co., 1886. 437 words

Tompkins, and Lewis Graham, representing Westchester-county ; ® and, on the following day, that Committee recommended the employment of one hundred men in Duclie.ss-county and fifty men in Westchester-county, " the said men " to be raised in the said Counties respectively, and "confined to the service of those Counties, and to 'continue in pay until the first day of November "next, unless sooner discharged by this or a future " Congress." '

There appears to have been a serious opposition to I lie adoption of the Report, New York City and County leading in the opposition, but it was, nevertheless, adopted;" and, two days afterwards, [June 22, 177G,]

dm frill J*lltlim» to the Provilirinl Cmnji-i-its, " HEAD-QI'AKTEItS, Nkw-

" YoKK, June 3, 177fi."

* Joiiniiil nf Ihij Pi-m<im uil Coiiijri-ns, " Die Luna>, 4 ho., I'. M., Juno li, " 177r,."

^ Jiniriiiil of the Proriiii-itil < 'niitiri'jtn, " \Vednesday morning, June 10, "17711;" and the same, " Wednesday afternoon, June lit, 177G."

^ Jovniiil of the Proi'iiieiiil C'oiiyresit^ " Wednesday afternoon, June 19, "1770."

7 Joitniitl of the Provineial Coiiifreits, "Thui-sday morning, June 20, "177G."

^ Joiiniiil of the Provincial Onigress, "Thursday morning, June 20, " 1776."

THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION, 1774-1783.

after various manipulations, in a second Committee,' by " one of the Secretaries, " ■ and by the Congress itself,'' the subject was disposed of, in a series of Resolutions, which, it is said, " were unanimously ap- ' proved of." I As that entire subject relates to the local history of Westche-ster-countv, at that period, and to the e.stab- ] lishment of a military police force, in th.it County, evidently for the more effectual prosecution of the proposed operations of the recently created " Com- " niittee to detect Conspiracies " among the peaceable conservative residents of that County -- as no complaint had been made, by any one, of the slightest breach of the peace, in that County, and as its local County Committee had ma<le no application for the establishment of such a military police force, for any purpose, there can be no doubt that, as far as the Company in Westchester-county was concerned, the project wa.s a creation of the Deputation from that County, and for no other purpose than that of .assisting the "Committee to Detect Conspiracies," of which Committee two members of that Delegation were also members, in harrying the conservative fiirmers of the County, in the interest of "the cause of America" and that of the leaders of the Rebellion, in New York -- for these reasons, the Resolutions may properly find a place in this narrative.