H33, New-York, Thursday, April 21 and No. 1634, New-York, Thursday, April 28, 1774; Gaine's Sao-York Gazette and Mercury, No. 1174, New- York, Monday, April 26, 1774- Lieutenant-governor Golden to the Earl of Dartmouth, "New York, 4th " May, 1774," and the enclosure therein; the same to Governor Tryon "New " York, 4th May, 1774 ;" Duulap's History of the Neu, Netherlands, Province of New York, and State of New York, i., 452, 453; Leake's Memoir of the Life and Times of General John Lamb, 81-84 ; Dawson's The Park ami Us Vicinity, in the City of New York, 29-31 ; Graham's History of th. Umled States, iv , 329; Hildreth's History of the United States, iii., 31 • Gordon's History of the American Revolution, i., 332-334 ■ etc

'; H °"' B Jsl " c -I'"-**«™«i, No. 1634, New-York, Thursday, April 28, 1774 ; Gaine's New- York Gazette and Mercury, No. 1174, New-York, Monday, April 25, 1774 ; Lieutenant-governor Golden to the Earl of Dartmouth,

New-York, 4th May, 1774," and the «.<*»»„ therein; the same to Gov-

WESTCHESTER COUNTY.

ary honors which, in the interest of the commercial classes, it had again secured. 1 The master-spirits of

ernor Tryon, "New Yobk, 4th May, 1774 ; " Dunlap's New York, i., 452, 453 ; Leake's Lamb, 82-84 ; Dawson's Park and its Vicinity, 30, 31 ; Hildreth's United States, iii., 31.

Notwithstanding the greater significance of the opposition of New York to the Tea-tax, which was seen in the resolute refusal to allow the storm-shattered Nancy to enter the harbor; in the examination of the cargo of the London, and the open destruction of her concealed Tea, in the light of day, by known men who saw no reason for disguising themselves ; and in the return of the Nancy, to England, by the Committee who had taken possession of her, at Sandy Hook ; it has been the custom of New England writers to withhold whatever of honor or dishonor there was in those doings of the party of the Opposition, in New York, while the less significant "tea-paity " of Boston has been elaborately presented as a feat of great daring and of the highest grade of patriotism.