"Dated in New-York, Apnl and May, 1775." This Association, with some slight changes, was re-printed (without any

WESTCHESTER COUNTY.

and after that had been done, the Meeting was adjourned. 1

The official report of the proceedings of the Meeting does not give the names of any of the ninety persons who were said to have been chosen as a " Com- " mittee for the County of Westchester ;" and a careful search for those names, in other contemporary publications, has been rewarded with only a partial success -- the Credentials of the Deputies to the Provincial Congress, to which reference has been made, reveal the names of the following : David Dan. 2 , George Comb,

Miles Oakley, Micah Townsend,

John G. Graham, Benoni Piatt,

Samuel Drake, Frederic Van Cortlandt,

Lewis Morris, James Varian,

Jonathan Piatt, 3 Samuel Haviland,

Michael Hays, Benjamin Lyon,

Samuel Crawford, Robert Bloomer,

Gilbert Thorn, William Miller,

Thomas Thomas, Joshua Ferris,

James Newman, Gilbert Drake,

Jonathan G. Tompkins, Chairman.

It will be evident to the reader that, until the appointment of the "Committee for the County of West- " Chester," by the Meeting which was held at the White Plains, on the eighth of May, 1775, as has been already stated, there had not been even the slightest appearance of any central organization, for political purposes, within the County ; that, until they were crowded into the political arena, by the place-seekers who were among them, the hardworking farmers throughout the County had not permitted the political questions of the day to disturb their peacelul labors ; and that the place-hunting few, as insignificant in numbers as they were in honest patriotism,