" ' Isaac Smith, " ' John Hyatt, " ' Abraham Odell, " ' Thomas Lawrence, " ' John Seyson, " ' Isaac Forsheu, ' ' ' Gabriel Requeaw, " ' Gabriel Archer, " ' Elias Secord, " ' James Peirce, " ' Edward Bugbe, '' ' Daniel Haight, " ' John Hunt, junr. " ' Abraham Losee, " ' Isaac Tomkins, " 'Joseph Paulding, " ' Hendricus Storm, ' ' ' Francis Secord, " ' John Parker, " ' Gilbert Bates, " ' David Purdy, " ' David Bleecker, " ' Jordan Downing, " ' Corn. Van Tassell, " ' Joseph Appleby, "' Patrick Cary, "' Gilbert Ward,

Peter Jenuing, John Gale, John Smith, James Hart, junr. Jonathan Purdy, junr. Monmouth Hart, junr. Christopher Purdy, Gabriel Purdy, Edward Merrit, junr. Henry Disborough, William Van Wart, Abraham Storm, Thomas Berry, Charles Merit, Benjamin Griffen, James Angevine, Jeremiah Anderson, junr. William Barker, junr. Gideon Arden, Joshua Purdy, George Storm, Jacob Vermiller, Samuel Heusted, John Warner, John Storm, Joshua Secord, John Underhill, William Underhill, junr. James Hill, William Watkins, Richard Baker, Bishop Heustice, Jeremiah Hitchcock, William Bond, Samuel Sneden, Joshua Ferriss.'

" ' William Dunlap,

" Of the others who are Freeholders, many also "hold lands at will of Col. Philips, so that the truth " really is, that very few independent Freeholders objected to the appointment of Deputies.

" Lewis Morris. " m0rri8ania, " May 7, 1775." l

It will be seen that, with more than his usual shrewdness, Lewis Morris postponed his attempt to reply to the Declaration and Protest which had been made, some weeks previously, by those who had objected to the Meeting at the White Plains, until after his brother-in-law, Isaac Wilkins, who had led those protestants, and who was known to have been the