These Resolutions were duly submitted to the Meeting ; and, as the official record says, they " were " unanimously approved of; " when the assemblage quietly dispersed. 1

Those who are acquainted with the questionable practices of ambitious, and, not unfrequently, unscrupulous politicians, will be prepared, without warning, for the reception of any modification of the recorded features of that Meeting, at Rye, of which mention has been made -- the first demonstration, in Westchester-county, concerning the great political questions of the day, of which there is, now, any existing record.

It does not appear, nor is it pretended, that the Meeting of "the Freeholders and Inhabitants of the "Township of Rye," now under consideration, was numerously attended ; and, as it was held during the busiest season of the agricultural year, there is no reason for supposing that many were present. In the same connection, it will be seen that the place of meeting is, also, unnoticed on the record. The masterspirit of the assembled farmers, whether many or few in number, was John Thomas, Junior, one of a family of officeholders under the Home and the Colonial Governments, 2 and, himself, an anxious office-seeker,

1 Official report of the proceedings of the Meeting: -- Holt's New-York Journal, No. 1650, New-Yokk, Thursday, August 18, 1774.

See, also, Gaine's New-York Gazette, and the Weekly Mercury, No. 1192 New- York, Monday, August 15, 1774, and Rivmgtmta New-York Gazetteer, No. 70, New-Yoek, Thursday, August 18, 1774.

2 The Grandfather of John Thomas, Junior, was the Rev. John Thomas, Rector of St. George's Church, Hempstead, Long Island, who,