While the Meeting at the Courthouse was thus quietly engaged in the continued discharge of " the " business of the day," those who had protested, before it, against the call for the Meeting as well as against its proposed proceedings, returned to Captain Hatfield's Tavern, where they were joined, during the afternoon, by " many of their friends ;" and "they

1 In some of the re-prints of this paper, this word is called " quietly : " we ha.ve preferred to use the word which was used by the author, in the original manuscript.

2 This is an exact copy of the original manuscript, which was used as the Credentials of the Deputies and has been preserved in the Credentials of Delegates, Volume xxiv., Page 25, Historical BTunuscripts relating to the War of the Revolution, in the Office of the Secretary of State, at Albany.

WESTCHESTEE COUNTY.

" proceeded to draw up and sign a Declaration, which " they seemed to do," it is said, " with as much pat- " riotic zeal as ever warmed the hearts of true and " faithful Subjects ; and, afterwards, they dispersed to "their different habitations. 1 "

A narrative of the events was subsequently written, probably by Isaac Wilkins, and, with the Declaration affixed, it was printed in the newspapers of the day, where, from that day to this, they have remained, serving as authorities in the history of that period. The narrative and the Declaration are in these words :