Westchester County, New York, During the American Revolution

" It is well-known here, that two-thirds at least of " the inhabitants of this county, are friends to order " and government, and opposed to Committees and all " unlawful combinations l ; and it will be made ap- " parent to the world, that they are so, as soon as "certain resolves now signing freely by the people, " shall be ready for publication.-- And one principal " reason why the friends to government did not assem- " ble in greater numbers than they did on Tuesday " last, was, that many of them had already, by sign- "ing those resolves, testified their loyalty to the "King, their attachment to the constitution, their "enmity to Committee*, and their acquiescence in the " prudent measures taken by their Assembly in the "late session, for accommodating the unhappy differ- " ences between the mother country and the colonies ; " and consequently thought they had already done " their duty. 2

" The Committee that was chosen, may, with some " kind of propriety, be said to represent those partic- " ular persons who chose them : But how they can " be denominated the representatives of the County " of Westchester,'who in general abhor Committees " and Committee-men ; and are determined to take " no steps that may have the least tendency to lead "them into Rebellion, we cannot conceive. Certainly "the friends to government who were collected at " Captain Hatfield's, had a better right, from their