Conrad Quin, Mrs. Edward Mills, Mrs. Joseph Mason, Misses Amanda Wright and Augusta Taylor. This association held weekly meetings throughout the war, sent out large supplies of lint, bandages, clothing and supplies for the Sanitary and Christian Commissions, and otherwise did noble work, being one of those bands of noble women in the Northern States who, together, managed to raise the sum of seventeen millions of dollars, by strictly voluntary contributions, for those great charitable societies.

No record is accessible of the work done by this Cortlandt committee ; but in this, as in all else, Port Chester sets a good example, by the careful way in which her papers were preserved by Mr. Marshall, the treasurer.

These records, already referred to, under the topic of the two years' volunteers, show that the first fervor of patriotism required much stimulation to keep it at a comfortable point. The first week's work in Port Chester left the treasurer with a balance of over two hundred dollars to distribute ; but the next, in spite of new contributions, the fund sunk to eighty dollars, and the Tituses, father and son, seem to have had to stir themselves to get subscriptions. By the

4th of June the balance rose to a hundred and eighty dollars; on the 8th, Mr. S. K. Satterlee appears to have taken up the business of collecting, for he brought in two hundred and six dollars in a lump, all of which was paid out the same day, for the families of soldiers, or to the military committee for expenses of recruiting. The balance sunk, by the 7th of July, to seventeen dollars and ninety cents, the payments made being in small sums to wives or parents of soldiers, on a weekly allowance, scaled according to the number of mouths to feed.