Indeed, as early as the 4th of May the New York City committee ordered " that Captain Sears, Captain Randall, and Captain Fleming be a committee to procure proper judges to go and view the ground at or near Kingsbridge, and report to this committee, with all convenient speed, whether it will answer for the purposes intended by it." Thus the very first warlike measure determined upon in this portion of the country had reference to a locality upon the borders of our county. The supremacy of the popular power in New York was well evidenced by the dictatorial authority assumed and successfully enforced by the committee of one hundred upon the occasion of the departure of the garrison from the city. This event occurred early in June, the frigate " Asia " having come into the harbor with orders to remove the soldiers to Boston. The committee gave its consent to the transaction, with the proviso, however, that the troops should carry away with them no other arms than those upon their own persons. An attempt was made to violate the arbitrary order thus promulgated, and the first detachment that issued from the fort was accompanied by several vehicles loaded with stacks of arms. At the corner of Broad and Beaver Streets a single citizen, Marinus Willett by name, emerged from the crowd, seized the horse of the leadingvehicle by the bridle, and commanded the driver to turn back. An altercation now ensued, several prominent gentlemen expressing their opinions -- among them Gouverneur Morris, who, consistently with the pacific attitude that he had taken, deprecated Willett's act. But the aggressive faction was represented by well-known spokesmen, having behind them overwhelming numbers of the Sons of Liberty, and they gave it to be understood that unless the arms were left in the city, in obedience to the directions of the committee, blood would tlow.