" 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.

On the 8th day of May, 1775, a meeting of the freeholders of Westchester County was held in White Plains, and Gouverneur Morris, Lewis Graham, James Van Cortlandt, Stephen Ward, Robert Graham, Daniel Dayton, John Holmes, Jr., and Wm. Paulding were chosen delegates from this county to the Provincial Convention of the Province of New York.

Enlistments for the army immediately commenced, and Ambrose Horton reported fifty -six able-bodied men, July 26, 1775. The commissions for the officers, -- Isaac Hatfield, captain ; James Varian, first lieutenant ; Anthony Miller, second lieutenant ; and John Falconer, ensign -- were issued September 13, 1775.