There were some who were smarting under the outrages which had been inflicted on them or on their friends, by local and other despots, of high or low degree ; and these were, sometimes, compelled to find refuge and protection within the lines of the Royal Army, and there was a float ing, vicious class, within the County, which the lawlessness of the revolutionary faction and the succeeding War had produced-- ready to enlist on that side which offered the greater inducements-- but the great body of the farmers was patient, law-abiding, peacefully inclined, stayers at home, industrious, and severely conservative.

WESTCHESTER COUNTY.

of 1774-75 and early in the Spring of the latter year, there was considerable activity, among the farmers on that particular Manor, in opposition to the revolutionary spirit which was seeking to force itself on them. An Association, referred to in the Note 2, on page 42, ante, had been prepared and numerously signed in Duchess-county ; and copies of it had been also circulated and signed within Westchestercounty, especially within the Manor of Cortlandt, which adjoined the Duchess-county of that period ; ' and, about the same time, an Address, accompanied with an Association adapted to that particular locality, was prepared and widely circulated ; and the Association was numerously signed. That very interesting and very important Address and the Association which accompanied it, -- the latter, generally known, among those who favored the revolutionary faction, as " The Loyalist's Test" -- because they form very important specimens of the literature of revolutionary Westchester-county, and because of their importance as reliable authorities for the guidance of the student of the history of that County, during that eventful period, may properly find a place in this narrative ; and we have carefully copied them from Bivington's New- York Gazetteer, No. 96, New- York, Thursday, February 16, 1775.