A few days after this meeting, a protest, bearing date the 13th of April, 1775, signed with over thi'ee hundred names, appeared in Eivingion's Xerv York Gazette, in which it was stated that on the 11th of April the friends of government met at the house of Captain Hatfield, and at about twelve o'clock walked to the court-house, where they found the other company collected in a body ; that the friends of the government then declared that they had been called together for an unlawful purpose, and they would not contest the matter with the others by a poll, but that they came only with a design to protest against all such disorderly proceedings, and to show their detestation of all unlawful Committees and Congresses ; that then, giving three huzzas, they returned to Captain Hatfield's, singing as they went, " God save great George, our King ;" after which, the following protest was drawn up and signed :

" We, the subsciibers, freeholders and inhabitants of the County of Westchester, having assembled at White Plains in conseqoence of certain advertisements, do now declare onr honest abborence of all unlawful Congresses and Committees, and that we are detennined, at the hazard of otir lives and properties, to support the King and constitution, and that we acknowletlge no representatives but the General Assembly, to whose wisdom we submit the guardianship of our rights and priv i leges."

The following names appended to this declaration show that the Tory faction of White Plains was well represented : " J. P. Horton, Daniel Oakley, William Davis, Wm. Anderson, Captain Abraham Hatfield, Gilbert Horton, Joshua Gedney, John Hyatt, Nehemiali Tompkins, Bartholomew Gedney, Isaac Purdy, Elijah Purdy, Gilbert Hatfield, Gabriel Purdy, Thos. Merritt, John Gedney, Monmouth Hart, Timothy Purdy, Thomas Barker, Elijah Miller, William Barker, Jr., Samuel Purdy, James Knifiin, Joseph Hart," etc.