Not a moment was lost, therefore -- the Congress was not even permitted to refer the letter from the President of the Continental Congress and the exceedingly important enclosures which it covered, to a Committee, for consideration and report -- when, with indecent haste, some ready made Certificates which had evidently been kept on hand, ready for immediate use, whenever they should be needed, were laid before the Provincial Congress, showing that, in the opinion of the enlightened County Committee, in Westchester-county, Lewis Morris was just the man for a Brigadier-general's command, and that Lewis Morris, Junior, could not be excelled as a Major of Brigade. With such intelligent judges of military matters and of the requirements of those who were to command and handle large bodies of soldiers, as were seen in the rustic Committee of the County of Westchester, 1776-77, and with Gouverneur Morris, the step-brother and uncle of the two ambitious Westchesterians, present, and directing the work, how could the Provincial Congress do less than to elect them? The record says, "the Congress conceive it necessary towards carrying " these Resolutions of the Continental Congress into "execution, to appoint a Brigadier-general and a " Major of Brigade of the Militia of Westchester- " county ; and Lewis Morris, Esqr., being thought the "most proper person for a Brigadier-general of the " Militia of that Count}',' and having been recom- " mended by the County Committee, for that pur- " pose, and Lewis Morris, Junior, Estjr., having been " also formerly recommended by the said Committee " for an appointment, to be the Major of Brigade of " the Militia of that County ;