A subcom it e oflive (John Jay being one of its members) was appointed on the 30th of May " to write a circular letter to the supervisors in the different counties, acquainting them of the appointment of this committee, and submitting To the consideration of the inhabitants of the counties whether it could not be expedient for them to appoint persons to correspond with this committee "upon matters relative to the purposes for which they were appointed." A circular letter was accordingly written, of which thirty copies were sent to the treasurer of Westchester County, with a request to distribute them among "the supervisors of the several districts." It is notas known no rewhether this was done. At all events, nothing resulted, plies from Westchester County appear among the records of the or, committee. But in July a second circular was sent, which met with informacommunicated It a different treatment from this county. of 1 The Jay homestead at Bedford, says Bolton, " for four generations the residence and estate of the Jay family," descended to them

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tion of the election of delegates to the approaching congress by the City and County of New York, and requested the other counties either to appoint additional delegates of their own or to signify their willingness that the delegates already chosen in the city should act for them also, on the understanding that whatever number of representatives should appear from this province at the congress they would be entitled to but one vote. Pursuant to this second circular a Westell ester County convention was called to meet in the courthouse at White Plains, on the 22d of August, various towns and districts choosing local delegates to represent them.