On the tenth of August, responsive to the Circular Letter from the Committee in New York, the Freeholders and Inhabitants of Eye, who sympathized with that Committee in its proposal that Westchestercounty should appoint Delegates to represent it in the proposed Congress, met and appointed John Thomas, Junior, Esq., James Horton, Junior, Esq., Eobert Bloomer, Zeno Carpenter, and Ebenezer Haviland, for " a Committee to consult and determine, with the " Committees of the other Towns and Districts within " the County," in County Convention, to be assembled at the Court-house, at the White Plains, on Monday, the twenty-second of August, " upon the ex- " pediency of sending one or more Delegates to the " Congress, to be held in Philadelphia, on the first " day of September next."^

The Meeting appears to have patiently waited, without adjourning, while the Committee which it had appointed, organized, by the appointment of Ebenezer Haviland, as its Chairman ; and considered the great political questions of the day; and expressed its conclusions on those questions, in a series of Eesolutions, in the following words :

" This Meeting being greatly alarmed at the late " Proceedings of the British Parliament, in order to " raise a Eevenue in America; and considering their late "most cruel, unjust, and unwarrantable Act for block - " ing up the Port of Boston, having a direct tendency to '• deprive a free People of their most valuable Eights " and Privileges, an introduction to subjugate the In- " habitants of the English Colonies and to render " them Vassals to the British House of Commons :