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. They were in these words:

" Whereas, there are sundry disaffected and dan- " gerous persons, in the Counties of Dutchess and " Westchester, who do now greatly disturb the peace " of the said Counties, and will most probably take up " arms, whensoever the enemy shall make a descent " upon this Colony, to the great annoyance of the said " Counties, in particular, and of othei-s the good peo- " pie of this Colony :