" TN your paper lately I saw my name to a pro- J_ " test. I never signed it, but went into Capt. " Hatfield's house, and was asked, whether I was a " Whig or a Tory ? I made answer, that I did not " understand the meaning of those words, but was for " liberty and peace. Upon which somebody put down

1 Rivington' » New- York Gazetteer, No. 108, New-York, Thursday, May 11, 1775.

Any one who is acquainted with the habits of printers, in " making "up " the forms of a newspaper, for the press, will understand, from the places which these three Cards, and the reply of Lewis Morris to the Declaration and Protest (omitting the names), and the proceedings of the Meeting at the White Plains-- five distinct articles relating to Westchester-county -- occupy, together, in the last Column of the inside form of the paper, that they all proceeded from the same hand ; and that the three Cards of recanting protesters were, evidently, among the results of Lewis Morris's political pilgrimage through that County, in hiB diligent search for protestants who were not, also, Freeholders.

" my name. Now, Sir, I desire that you will print " this to shew to the world, that I have not deserved " to be held up in the light of a protestor.

" Jeremiah Hunter."

With these four publications -- the reply to the Declaration and Protest and the three Cards of recantation -- as far as Westchester-county was concerned, the literature of the first Provincial Convention of the Colony of New York ended -- and, as every farmer had returned to his rural home, at the close of the eventful eleventh of April, and had resumed his work, the necessary work of the season, on his farm or on the river, with the exceptions, here and there, of a disturbed mind, an angry thought, or an unneighborly resentment, new features in the social life of Westchestercounty farmers, the whole subject gradually became a thing of the past, fit only for material for history.