" ' Gilbert Purdy, David Davids,

" ' James Chatterton, Elijah Purdy, jun.

" ' John Dusenburgh, Elijah Tomkins,

'• ' Thomas Cromwell, Daniel Jerow,

"'Solomon Horton, Charles Lawrence,

" ' Peter Busing, Joseph Purdy, jun.

" ' Peter Busing, jun. James Sniffen, jun.

" 'James Kniffen, Thomas Valentine, " ' Nathaniel Underhill, jun. Gilbert Valentine,

" ' Philip Fowler, Abraham Rich,

" 'John M'Farthing, Andrew Gerow,

" ' John Tomkins, Gilbert Hunter,

"' Joseph Hart, Lieut. Peter Bonet,

" ' Samuel Sneden, Isaac Merit,

" ' Peter Fashee, Edward Merit,

"' Jesse Lawrence, John Gale,

" ' William Sneden. John Smith.

" ' Francis Purdy, "'William Odell, '"Israel Hunt, ■' 'Thomas Tomkins, " ' Frederick Underhill, " 'Peter Post, " 'Benjamin M'Cord, " 'John Williams, " ' John Ackerman, ' ' ' Peter Rusting, " ' Thomas Barker, *' ' Jeremiah Hunter '' ' Abraham Storm, " ' Peter Jenning,

Andrew Fowler, Joshua Secord, George French, John Underhill, Caleb Gidney, William Underhill, jun. James Hill, William Watkins, John Rustin, Richard Baker, William Ascough, Bishop Heustice, James Miller, Phineas Hunt '

"The following persons, not being able to attend at "the Plains, requested by their Friends that their " names might be added to the list of protestors, viz.:

'•John Hunt, Esq., " Philip Palmer, Esq., "John Hitchcock,

Jeremiah Hitchcock, William Bond, Joseph Bond.

' The foregoing account is strictly true, as can be

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"proven by the testimony (or if necessary by the affi- " davits) of a number of persons, of the most unques- " tionable character in this county. What then must " we think of such persons as have propagated a report, " that the friends of government were upon this occa- " sion out-numbered 5 to 1, and that many of the " persons whose names were subscribed to the fore- " going Declaration, were not on that day present at "the White Plains?