Scott, of the City of New-York, they were taken into consideration -- that portion of them which directed the fortifying of Kingsbridge, was referred to Captain Richard Montgomery, of Duchess-county, Henry Glenn and Robert Yates, of Albany-county, and Colonel James Van Cortlandt and Colonel James Holmes, of Westchester-county, with orders " to view " the ground at or near King's Bridge, and report to "this Congress whether the ground near King's " Bridge will admit of making a fortification there, " that will be tenable ; and at what particular place "the ground will admit of making the best and " most tenable fortification ; and that they call to " their assistance such persons as they shall think " necessary, and make report to this Congress, with all " convenient speed : " that portion of them which directed the erection of fortifications in the Highlands, on the Hudson-river, was referred to Colonel James Clinton and Christopher Tappan, both of Ulster-county, with orders to " take to their assistance " such persons as they shall think necessary ; to go to "the Highlands, and view the banks of Hudson's " river there ; and to report to this Congress the most " proper place for erecting one or more fortifications ; " and, likewise, an estimate of the expense that will " attend erecting the same." *

Both these Resolutions were initiatory of prolonged and not always harmonious and agreeable proceedings, both without and within the Provincial Congress and both without and within the Congress of the Continent, all of which can be considered with greater propriety in the local publications concerning the Towns of Kingsbridge and Cortlandt and in the general publications concerning the War of the American Revolution, than in a general History of the County of Westchester; and, for that reason and with this introductory send-off, the construction of those military works to which the Resolutions referred will receive no further attention, in this narrative.