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Westchester County, New York, During the American Revolution

Dawson, Henry B. Westchester County, New York, During the American Revolution. Morrisania, NY: (privately printed by the author), 1886. 283 words

On the same day, [March 24<A], the Memorial to the House of Lords and the Bepresentation and Remonstrance to the House of Commons, after several Amendments, none of them possessing any importance whatever and only three of them having called for a division of the House, had been negatived in the Committee of the Whole House, were successively reported to the House ; and, in the respective forms in which they were thus reported, the House adopted them, in each instance, without a division of the House. 7

On the following morning, [March 25rA] the engrossed copies of the Petition to the King, 8 the Memorial to the Lords," and the Representation and Remonstrance to the Commons of Great Britain™ were respectively presented to the House, read, and again agreed to, in each case without a division of the House. In each instance, also, the Speaker was ordered to sign the document, in behalf of the House ; and, after having ordered the Speaker to transmit these three several petitions to the King, the Lords, and the Commons, " with all convenient speed, to Edmund " Burke, Esquire, Agent of this Colony at the Court '" of Great Britain ; and that a Letter be prepared, to " be approved by this House, to the said Agent, with "directions that he present- the same, in behalf of "this Colony, as they are respectively directed, as " soon after the receipt thereof as possible ; " and with the additional Order " that Mr. Speaker trans- " mit, at the same time, to the .A'gent, the State of the " Grievances of this Colony and the Resolutions of "this House thereupon," the House adjourned."