Earl of Stirling, so called, who figured so largely in the military history of the War of the Revolution -- to be its President ; and John McKesson and Robert Benson, the latter a brother of that Egbert Benson whose extraordinary election as a Deputy from Duchess-county to the earlier Provincial Convention, has been already noticed, were elected to be its Secretaries. 3 Although the doings of that body are less generally known than those of the Continental Congress, the purposes of this work will not require any further reference to them, than to such portions as relate particularly, to Westchester-county or to those who were within that County, and to such other portions thereof as, in their effects, affected that County or its inhabitants, during the period of the War of the Revolution.

As has been already stated, the local Committee for Westchester-county was created on the eighth of May, 1775, ninety members having been miraculously created out of the • material of which twenty-three were actually composed; and Gilbert Drake was made its Chairman. 4 Micah Townsend, subsequently holding other offices of honor, in both Westchester and Cumberland-counties, was made the Secretary of that Committee ; D and its doings, as far as they were

2 Journal of the Congrats, " PHILAnELPHIA, Wednesday, May 10, 1775."

8 Journal of tlm Provincial Congress, " City of New- York, May 2and, " 1775," and addition, including the proceedings on the following day.

4 Credentials of Delegates to Provincial Congress, May 8, 1775. -- Historical Manuscripts relative to tlie War of tjte devolution : Credentials of Delegates, xxiv., 133 ; Rivington's New-York Gazetteer, No. 108, New- York, Thursday, May 11, 1775.