Westchester County, New York, During the American Revolution
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.
~< Proceedings of the Caucus, original edition ; de Lancey's Notes to Jones's History of New York, i.,439; Leake's Memoir of General John Lamb, 87 ; Dawson's Park and its Vicinity, 33 ; Bancroft's United States, original edition, vii., 41, 42 ; the same, centenary edition, iv., 320, 327.
WESTCHESTER COUNTY.
maintained its own ground and voted down every attempt to oust it, which was made by the latter ; and in making the nomination of the fifty whom it proposed for the Committee of Correspondence, it did no more than to drop the names of three of those whom the minority had already selected, as its proposed Committee of Twenty-five, and to slip into the list of the twenty-two who were retained, without breaking the order in which they had been arranged on the original list, the names of twenty-eight other persons with whom the promoters of the Caucus were better pleased -- as nearly the entire minority was included in the list of nominees, giving it a small share of the responsibilities and of the honors or dishonors of the proposed Committee, its opposition to the action of its aristocratic and conservative opponents appears to have ceased ; and the establishment of the proposed Committee of Fifty, by the body of the inhabitants, was, thereby, assured.