" Westchester County, White Plains. '■ "f TTHEREAS, there was a petition published in VV "Rivington's paper, some time past, that "forty five of the freeholders and inhabitants, be- " sides Miles Oakley, did sign a petition -- I did sign ■' a petition, something like it, by being misled ; and " afterwards being informed into the right state of "the matter, I got the petition, and struck my name "out, and forwarned the Esq. A. H -- not to return " my name and he swore by God he would ; and "' many others that signed it, has told me, they was " sorry they had any concern in signing the petition. " MILES OAKLEY, and " DANIEL HORTON."

There was no portion of the County of Westchester, in which the conservatism of the inhabitants was so general and so decided in its character, as in the Manor of Cortlandt ; 2 and, during the Winter

1 On the 8th of May, 1775, Miles Oakley was appointed a member of the County Committee, (t-ide page -- , post ; ) soon afterwards, he received a Warrant for Second Lieutenant in Captain Mills's Company ; (t-ide page -- ,post;) and he Herved in that office, under Colonel Holmes, in the DloodleBS Campaign of 1775 ; leaving the service, when the Campaign closed. -- (Historical Manuscripts, etc. : Military Committee, xxv., 04.)

Daniel Horton, whose name accompanied that of Miles Oakley, on the disclaimer now under notice, was a resident of Rye ; and in the re-organization of the Militia of the County, he was made Second Lieutenant of the Rye and Mamaroneck Company, commanded by Captain Robert Bloomer. <•*