could not surely preserve that peace, their appointment were useless -- the inhnbitants of that County could not have been as " dangerous" and its jieace could not have been as "greatly disturbed " as the authors and promoters of these Resolutions had falsely pretended, among the recitals of their Preamble: others will suspect, not without reason, that the entire movement was a purely political job, gotten up for the pur])ose of affording p(ditical sop, at the expense of the Colony, for hungry adherents of the Bensons and the Morrise -- suspicions which would be well-founded, since neither of the Duchess-county Companies were subscfiuently known in history, excei)tthrough the requisition on the Treasurer of the Colony, for their Pay and Subsistence;' while the Westchester-county Company, without having become known to history, in its capacity of an armed police, is known, in the military annals of the State,^ for having done nothing else than changed its Lieutenant,' for asking for greater Pay,*

1 JoMnml iif Ihc I'roitiiiciiil Cuiiijresii, "Die Veneris, Novr. 1, 177G, 4 "o'cloi-k, I*.M."

-Ttie iinly allusion to military duty discharged hy this Company, wliicli we have found, is that Oj-./ec of Ihn I'roviiirial Congress, on the twenty-fifth of .Inly, "that Captain Townsend of Westehcster-coiinty "return to duty, with his CompaMy, at the mouth of Croton river and " Bucli places ailjncpnt as the Officer or Officers commanding the Ameri "can troops or Jlilitia, there, shall direct," [Jniinud nf the I'mvlm-Uil Con- (/ifss, " Tliursilay i ning, July 20,1771;;") which was certainly beyond the line of duties fur whii h it had been specilii ally raisecl.