The files of that Congress, which are preserved in the office of the Secretary of State, at Albany, show, however, that the only Counties or Towns which made any Returns of Associators, in response to this Resolution, were Orange, Ulster, Suffolk, Duchess, one District in Charlotte, three Districts in Cumberland, and a few scattering names, not more than fifty, in Queens ; but there is no such Return ironi Westchester-couuty ; there is no such Return among the archives of the County, in the office of the County-clerk ; and we have failed to find anything resembling such a Roturn, in the offices of the Town-clerks, in the several Towns.

The signer of the following, which was sent from Ameuia, in Duchess-county, is classed among the " 3 Tories " of that "Precinct:"

"Juney 8 8 th , A' 1 1775. This may sertyfy all pepel whonie It may " cornsern that I the Svbscriber am willing to do what is best and " wright to secure the priviligs of a mariga both sivel and sacred and to " follow the advise of our Reverend congres so far as they do the word " of God and the exzample of Jesvs Christ and I hope in the grace of God " uo moro will be required, as witness my hand,

"John Garnsey."

6 See the Resolutions of the Provincial Congress , page 94, ante.

7 See the general Circular Letter of tho Congress, on this page, ante. The same declaration, more distinctly uttered, may be seen in the