A Day was appointed by Adver- " tisement for choosing sixty Persons to form thisCommittee. About 30 "or 40 Citizens only appeared at the Election, & chose the 60 who had "been previously named by the former Committee. I can no otherwise " my Lord account for the very small number of People who' appeared on " this occasion, than by supposeing that the Measures of the Congress "are generally Disrelished." -- {Lieutenant-governor Coldento the Earl of Dartmouth, No. 9, " New York, December 7th, 1774.")

3 Lieutenant-governor Colden to Captain Montague, "New-York, 8 Feby, " 1775 j" the same to General Gage, " New-York, 20th Febry, 1775 ;" the "same to the Earl of Dartmouth, "New York, 1st March, 1775 ;" Jones's History of New York during the Revolutionary War, i., 31 ; Leake's Memoir of General John Lamb, 97 ; etc.

WESTCHESTER COUNTY.

enlisting her farmers in the support and execution of the Association or of any other of the measures or recommendations of the recent Congress, may have been or may have proposed, they were evidently entirely disregarded ; and that, at least as recently as the early Winter of 1774-75, there was not sufficient interest, friendly to the revolutionary movements which were so deeply exciting the inhabitants of the neighboring City, within any portion of that rural County, to do even the paltry service of circulating those Circular Letters throughout the Towns ; although there were a few, a very few, who were beginning to look favorably on those movements, and to talk and write, in the support of them. We shall notice all of these earlier demonstrations of which we possess any information, since they were the small beginnings of that Eevolution, within the County of Westchester, of which so much has been said and written.