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 :

"to the honhle. the provincial congress, " New York : " The Committee of Salem, in Westchester-county, " liave the unhappiness of having a large number of " the inhabitants very much opposed to the measures " of the United Colonies, and numbers of them are "determined not to comply nor adopt the doings of " the Congress, which makes a great deal of trouble " for said Committee. Said Committee has adver- " tised some, obliged others to give bonds, some of " one or two hundred pounds, some of which have "forfeited their bonds and run off, and have made "considerable costs, one in jjarticular, in sending "after him. We desire to know what shall be done "with the forfeitures, and likewise how to proceed in "taking of it, and how to turn it into money if taken " in stock or whatever else, or whether or no the Con- "gress wont take the forfeitures and pay the cost; " we desire you would give us some rides and direc- " tions how to proceed. And likewise, those men "that still behave inimical, and put tiie Committees " to so much trouble, whether or no we might not "take cost of them to pay us what is reasonable for