'•That at ami near the White i'lains ^which is the head Quarters of " the Company) the allowance for their subsistance does not amount to "near enough to supiiort them, they being unable to get victuals for "less than Is. i)er Meal, or to hire their lioaid at any tolerable rate but "by the week ; that your I'etitiouei-s entered the Company & Did duty "in the most busy season of the year before Si during Harvest time A " have hail a harder share of tluty than the Troops who were allowed by "your hoiKjiable House 2U Dcdiars Bounty & who have generally "received near 4(i Dollars.

" Your Petitioners therefore humbly pray that your honorable House " will be pleased to increase the I'ay for their Subsistance so fur as to " enable them when they live with Frugality to support themselves by it "in the part of the County where they may reside, or be ordered. And "your Petitioners as in duty bound shall ever pray, &c.

"Zephaiiiah Miller, I.,ieutenant, M'illiain Freilenborongh,

" Jacob Travis, Serjent, Jonathan Ferris,

" William Martin,* .Serjent, Robert Bloomer, Juu',

*The Deposition of John Martinc, " of the Manor of Philipsbiirg near "the White Plains," (His/o/icu; M'timsci-ipl.i, etc.; Mi-si-tllaneous I'apcrs, XXXV., 1!73,) shows that this was William Martiue, his sou.

and for drawing the Pay which was legitimately due to it.*

Another instance of the spirit of jiartisan bitterness which prevailed, at that time, in Westchestercounty, and of the unholy zeal with which the Town Committees urged forward the work of persecution and plunder, among their conservative neighbors, may be seen in the following note which was addressed by the Chairman of the Committee of the Town of Salem, in that County -- that Committee which, a short time previously, had laid an embargo on Cattle intended for the supply of the inhabitants of the City of New York* -- to the Provincial Congress :