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.

The Credentials mentioned above were signed " Gilbert Brake, " Cliainnan; " but those of the Delegates elected to the Second Provincial Cougress, signed by the same person, bear the signature of "Gilbert "H. Deake, Chairman." -- (Historical Manuscripts, etc.: Credentials of Delegates, xxiv., 67.)

Historical Manuscripts, etc.: Credentials of Delegates, xxiv., 67.

WESTCHESTER COUNTY.

recorded in the annals of the County, will be duly noticed, as the narrative progresses.

The organization of the Provincial Congress, on the twenty-third of May, 1775, has been already mentioned and described : ' a more particular description of the membership of that body which, in the interest of those who were in rebellion, was to take places beside the several departments of the legally constituted Colonial Government, in the government of the Colony, and which was to wield so important an influence over all who were within the Colony, seems to be incumbent on us, in this place.