After the protestants had thus peacefully left the Courthouse, the Meeting returned to the business for the transaction of which it had been convened and organized ; and the question was submitted, by the Chairman, " Whether they would appoint Depu- " ties for this County, to meet the Deputies of the " other Counties, at the Cily of New York, on the "twentieth of April instant, for the purpose of " electing Delegates to represent this Colony in the "General Congress, to be held at Philadelphia, on
3 There is very little difference, concerning what occurred in the Courtroom, in the narrative drawn up by Lewis Morris and in that portion of the Protest which relates to that subject ; and both are referred to, as authorities, for what has been said, in the text, relative thereto. Concerning what was done, elsewhere, by the protestants, after they had left the Courthouse, the Protest is our sufficient authority.
WESTCHESTEE COUNTY.
"the tenth day of May next." By an unanimous vote, it determined to do so ; and it then appointed, also without opposition, Colonel Lewis Morris and Doctor Robert Graham-- the latter a kinsman of the former-- both of Westchester; Stephen Ward, of Eastchester; Colonel James Holmes and Jonathan Piatt, of Bedford; John Thomas, Junior, of Rye; and Samuel Drake and Philip "Van Cortlandt, both of the Manor of Cortlandt ; a majority of whom was authorized to represent the County, and to cast the Vote of the County, in the proposed Convention. 1