Westchester County, New York, During the American Revolution

4 A small broadside, containing a list of twenty-five names of persons who were " nominated by a Number of respectable Merchants and the "Body of Mechanics of this City, to be a Committee of Correspondence "for it, with the Neighboring Colonies," may be seen in the Library of the New York Historical Society. It was evidently the result of a consultation of those who assumed to have been the leaders of the masses of the unfranchised inhabitants of the City.

It is a noticeable fact, however, that that list of nominees, with only three of the names stricken from it, was incorporated in the larger list which was nominated by the Caucus.

5 "Low belonged to the Church of England, a person unbounded in "ambition, violent and turbulent in his disposition, remarkably obsti- " nate, with a good share of understanding, extremely opinionated, fond "of being the head of a party, and never so well pleased as when "Chairman of a Committee or principal spokesman at a mob meeting. "His principles of government inclined to the republican system." -- (Jones's History of New York during the American Revolution, i., 35.)

Mr. Low, subsequently, became a Loyalist ; was stripped of his property, by confiscation ; was attainted ; and retired to England, where he died in 1791. -- (Sabine's Biographical Sketches of Loyalists of the American Revoluti n, original edition, 430 ; -- the same, second edition, ii., 32, 33.)

6 Prow edings of the Caucus, printed on a broadside, for general circulation, «, copy of which is in the Library of the New York Historical Society.