1 Proceeding of the Town, in legal Town-Meeting, November 7 177± reprinted in Force's American Archives, Fourth Series i. 1229.

WESTCHESTER COUNTY.

chusetts; 1 Ridgefield, 2 Newtown, 3 Stratfield, (now Bridgeport,)* Greenwich, 5 Danbury and its vicinity, 6 Darien, 7 Norwalk, 8 Redding, 9 Stamford, 10 New Milford, 11 Morris, 12 Plymouth, 13 Salisbury, 14 etc., indeed the entire western portion of the Colony, 15 in Connecticut; Oyster Bay, 16 Jamaica, 17 Shawangunk, 18 all those in Richmond-county, 19 in New York, and many others,*

1 Letter from Marshfield to a Gentleman in Boston, January 24, 1775, published in Rivington' 1 8 New- York Gazetteer, No. 95, New- York, Thursday, February 9, 1775, reprinted in Force's American Archives, Fourth Series, i., 1177, 1778 ; Extract of a letter from Boston to a Gentleman in New-York, January 26, 1775, reprinted in the same work, i.,. 117S ; Proceedings of the Town, in legal Town-Meeting, 20th February, 1775, reprinted in the same work, i., 1249 ; Protest of sixty four of the Inhabitants of the Town, 20th February, 1775, re-printed in the same work, i., 1249,1250.

2 Proceedings of the Town, in Special Town-Meeting, 30th January, 1775, published in Rivington y B New-York Gazetteer, No. 94, New-York, Thursday, February 2, 1775, and reprinted in Force's American Archives, Fourth Series, i., 1202, 1203 ; Card signed by twenty-nine of the Inhabitants, "Ridgefield; Connecticut, February 2, 1775," reprinted in the same work, i., 1210 ; Proceedings of Adjourned Town-Meeting, April 10, 1775, reprinted in Hurd's History of Fairfield-county, Connecticut, 039 ; the same work, 650, 653 ; Teller's History of Ridgefield, Conn., 45, 46.