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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. Passage 1945 of 4798 269 words

Theal and his sou John Lobdiu, and " Stephea Delance " [Z>e Lancey ?'\ " some of them "laid under £500. bonds and also the solemnity of an " oath -- but they regtird not any thing the Comuiit- " tee does with them, so long as they have their lib- '• erty. It is supposed numbers are concealed on " Long island. Please to take it into your wise cou- "sideration, whether or no it will not be best to send " and purge Long island ; and as I wrote to you a "little back by Mr. Chapman, one of the members of " Sak'in Committee, U) know what we should do with " those that forfeit their bonds, and how we should "get i)ay for the last, as there is since many more, we " should be glad of an answer.

" By order of the Committee,

" Ezekiel Hawley, Chairman.

"Salem, June 22d, 1776. 'To THE Honourable the Pbovincial Conoress " OF New-York." *

Two days after that letter was written, [June 24, 1770,] the Sul)-coiniuittees of Cortlandt and Salem united in the following letter, also addressed to the Proviiicitil Congress ; aiul in order to expedite the consideration of the subject to which it was devoted, by that body, E/ekiel H:iwley was formally directed to forward it, witii all convenient speed."

"Salem, 24th of June, 177(i.

" Gentlemen :

" Whereas sundry persons of note have lately ab- "sconded from our part of the country, and we have " reiison to think, from several circumstances, are " (with numbers of others) assembling together on

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