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. They were in the following words :

1 The following is a copy of those notable " Resolves," as that Association was frequently called, carefully made from Gaine's New-York Gazette: and the Weekly Mercury, No. 1218, New-York, Monday February 13, 1775, where they were printed among the current news of the day :

•^ TTTE the subscribers being desirous to convince mankind that • * "we are firmly attached to our most bappy constitution, " and are disposed to Bupport and maintain peace and good order under " his Majesty's government, do therefore declare, that our sovereign lord " king George the third, is the only sovereign to whom British Ameiica " may, can, or ought to owe and bear true and faithful allegiance, and "that there is no legal power or authority therein but what is duly " derived from him ; that our representatives in General Assembly con- "vened, are the only guardians of our rights and liberties ; that without " them no laws can here be made to bind us, and that they only are the "channel through which our grievances can properly be represented for " redress, and that to support their right and authority, we do hereby " associate and mutually covenant and engage to and with each other " as follows, namely :