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

1 This notable paper, except the list of names, was published in Mivinglon's New-York Gazetteer, No. 108, New-York, Thursday, May 11, 1775 ; and the names were published in the next number ot that paper --No. 109, New-Yoek, Thursday, May 18, 1775 ; the text of the article was published in Gaine's New-York Gazette: and the Weekly Mercury, No. 1231, New-Yoek, Monday, May 15, 1775-- although promise was made that the names should be published in the succeeding number, they were not-- and both the text of the article and the names appear in Holt's New-York Journal, No. 1689, New-Yoek, May 18, 1775.

From the first-named of those two papers, the re-print of it, in the text, was very carefully made.

WESTCHESTEK COUNTY.

author of their Declaration and Protest, had left America, when he knew that he was probably secured from challenge concerning the untruthfulness of whatever he should write, in that reply -- neither Samuel Seabury nor Luke Babcock had written anything concerning the political questions of that period ; 1 it was not thought they would do so; and there was no other person, in Westchester-eounty, whose pen promised trouble to the new-made leader, no matter how much that peculiar failing which had made his family conspicuous, throughout the Colony, 2 should be manifested in whatever he should write.