8 Except wherein our authorities for particular statements have been already given, we have depended, for what we have stated, in this and in the two other paragraphs which immediately precede this, on the knowledge which we have acquired, concerning Westchestercounty, its inhabitants, and its history, from the numerous books and manuscripts and newspapers, bearing on those subjects, which have fallen into our hands and been examined by us, duriug more than forty years past ; on the information, relating thereto, which was given to ub, personally, in our earlier life, by aged natives of the County, some of them dear relatives, and one, if no^ more, whose personal recollections extended back, beyond the Declaration of Independence ; and on what remained of the character and habits of its Colonial inhabitants, in those old families who continued to linger within the County, when we first knew it.

*We are not insensible of the discontent, among the tenantry on the Cortlandt Manor, which led a considerable number of them and of those who favored them, in April and May. 1766, to move down, as far as Kiugsbridge, demanding a redress of grievances, and making serious threats against their Landlord ; but it was only a local disturbance, reaching only to the limits of that single locality. It possessed no political significance whatever -- it was grimly said of it, by a contemporary, " Sons of Liberty great opposers to these Bioters as they are of opinion "no one is entitled to Kiot but themselves" -- and it was promptly suppressed, without loss of either property or life. Those who are curious to know more of this outbreak of early "Antirenters," are referred to the Journals of Captain John Montresor, 361, 3G3 ; and to the Colonial Manuscripts of that period.