were their honor and their patriotism, and at what price the Home Government could purchase their adherence and their " patriotism " and their sympathy with their compatriots, whenever that Home Government should incline to enter the market of "patriot- " ism," for such a purpose.

At a very early period, the security of the pass at Kingsbridge appears to have attracted the attention of the revolutionary faction ; and measures were taken with the evident intention of throwing up some defensive works, at that point, for the protection of the City.

Immediately after the receipt of intelligence concerning the raid of the Royal troops on Lexington and Concord, without any formal order from the Committee of One hundred, great numbers of men were employed in hauling the cannon from the City to Kingsbridge, in readiness for the work of intrenchment; 2 and on the fourth of May, the Committee " ordered, that Captain Sears, Captain Randall, and " Captain Fleming be a Committee to procure proper "judges to go and view the ground at or near Kings- " bridge, and report to this Committee, with all " convenient speed, whether it will answer the pur- " poses intended by it " 3 -- although they were not described, the " purposes " referred to were, evidently, for the protection of the City from any irruption, by land, from the country Towns.

The published Proceedings of the Committee of One hundred, in the City of New York, make no mention of the doings of that Committee ; and it is not probable that it accomplished anything, in the way of fortifying Kingsbridge ; but, on the twenty-fifth of May, the Continental Congress agreed to the following Resolutions, " respecting New York," one of which relates to the defence of Kingsbridge.