Westchester County, New York, During the American Revolution
The Stale of Grievances which was thus adopted by the General Assembly of New York included not only all those Acts of the Parliament of Great Britain, relating to or affecting the Colony of New York, for which Colony only the Assembly presumed to legislate, which the Congress of the Continent had included in the Bill of Bights and Grievances which that body had adopted and published, but it included the additional Grievance inflicted in the Act of 6th George III., Chapter XII., " declaring the Right of " Parliament to bind the Colonies in all cases what- " soever," and that inflicted in the Act of 35th Henry VIII., Chapter II., authorizing the removal of prisoners accused of Crimes committed in America, to England, for Trial, neither of which was included in that Bill of Rights and Grievances which the Congress had published. It included, also, the Act of 7th George III., Chapter LIX., " requiring the Legisla- " ture of this Colony to provide for the Services there- " in mentioned, without application made to the "Representatives of the People of this Colony, in " General Assembly, and holding up, by any other " Acts, a Suspension of the legislative powers of this " Colony, until such Requisitions be complied with;" the Act of 14th George III. Chapter LXXXIIL, "so " far as it may be construed to establish the Roman " Catholic Religion in the Province of Quebec," . and " so far as it imposes Duties upon certain Ar- " tides of Merchandise imported into that Province," " which by another Statute of the same year, Chapter " LXXXVIII., is so extended as to comprehend all the " Indian Country, from Hudson's Bay to the Mouth " of the Ohio-river; 1 ' and the four Acts especially relating to Boston and the Colony of Massachusetts- Bay, all of which it declared to be Grievances of this Colony ; 5 and, as has been said, it concurred in that