Those whom the Committees and the Congresses had persecuted and outraged and all whom their sufferings could influence, very naturally and very reasonably, were " disaffected," as the inhabitants of Staten-Ijiland had been : many, great numbers, of those who had honestly and earnestly opposed the Home Government and who had boldly demanded a redress of the Colonial grievances, were also " disaffected," when the fire-eaters' HesoluHon of Independence was forced on them, nolens volens, as Colonel James Holmes, of Bedford, -- who had represented Westchester-county in the Provincial Convention which had sent the Delegation of the Colony to the second Continental Congress; who had represented the County in the First Provincial Congress ; and who had commanded, throughout the entire Campaign of 1775, the Regiment of Troops in which were the Companies from the same Countywas "disaffected," thereby. The greater number of those who had held places of honor and emolument, in the Colonial Government, notwithstanding it was politic to keep quiet, was also, more or less '' disaf- " fected;" and the multitude, whose timidity would not permit them to entertain a thought that Independence would be worth what it would evidently cost to secure it, was not very loud-toned in its favor, even if it did not, very often, lean toward " disaffection." Lastly, the inhabitants of the State, very generally, anxious only to attend to their business and their farms, without the distress and misery which a Civil War would necessarily produce, and seeing no advantage to themselves or to their families by the violent overthrow of one Government and theequally violent establishment of another Government -- the great majority, by far the greater number, if not the almost entire body, of the farmers of Westchestercounty, was of that class -- preferred to remain as they had been, before they had been outraged by the new regime; and, therefore, were classed as "disaffected." There was reason, therefore, for the more tender anxiety of the Convention, composed of those who were cowards by instinct, since " its chickens had "come home, to roost;" and, as we shall see, its anxiety was not relieved by what it was subsequently required to experience.