Among the recanters was Jonathan Fowler, one of the judges of the Court of Common Pleas of the county, who, in a published card, declared that " upon mature deliberation and more full knowledge of the matter" he had come to the conclusion that the sentiments expressed in the protest were "not only injurious to our present cause, but likewise offensive to our fellow-colonists, " and therefore repudiated and testified his abhorrence of them. The New York provincial convention for the appointment of delegates to the congress at Philadelphia met in New York City on the

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20th of April. All the representatives for Westchester County selected by the meeting at White Plains were in attendance excepting Jonathan Piatt and Colonel James Holmes. A delegation of twelve men -- five from New York County and one each from Kings. Suffolk, Orange, Albany, Ulster, Westchester, and Dutchess Counties -- was chosen to represent the province. The delegate for Westchester County was Colonel Lewis Morris. John Jay was re-elected as a delegate for New York City. The convention adjourned on the 22o*. On the morning of the next day, Sunday. April 23, 1775, the news of the battle of Lexington was received by the people of our county

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residing along the Boston Post Road from the express rider who had been dispatched to bear it as far as New York. Spread from mouth to mouth throughout the county, it everywhere intensified the passions which had been stirred by the local political events of the previous few weeks. Already incensed at the arrogant bearing of the conservative party, which had just been freshly illustrated by the injudicious narrative of the proceedings at White Plains that the leaders of that party had inserted in the New York newspapers, the patriotic element was aroused by this alarming intelligence to bitterness and aggression.