The first of these was a Letter, in support of the revolutionary movements and in answer to the tracts of " A. W. Farmer," which had made so much excitement, throughout the Colonies. It was written by a Weaver and published in Holt's New- York Journal, No. 1668, New- York, Thursday, December 22, 1774. The Editor assured his readers that it was actually written by a working Weaver, who lived in Harrison's Purchase ; 1 and it was in these words :

" To the city and country inhabitants, of the province of New York.

" Friends, and fellow mortals,

fFHE division between Britain, andherColo- J- nies, is very alarming ; but what I think " would be more alarming, is a division between the in- " habitants of the colonies ; the effect of which we have " from holy writ, that a house divided against itself, " cannot stand. I have seen a pamphlet printed by " Mr. Eivington, entitled the Country Farmer, which " seems to be calculated to throw all into confusion, " & to no other end ; and artfully to gain his point, " as a Farmer, he addresses himself to the Farmers, '' and their wives ; he tells the latter, they cannot " treat a neighbour with a dish of tea ; and that will " be a dreadful thing indeed ; to the former, he saith, " their produce will rot on their hands, and they can- " not pay their weaver, &c. Being a Weaver myself, '' and tho' they be generally poor, still they are as " useful a set of men, as any in the world, and so will " remain, as long as, from the King to the peasant, " all are born naked. I therefore, would beg leave