of the Company, and had received only twelve of the sixty votes which were cast for that office; 4 and, of course, the Committee of Safety of the County transmitted the affidavit to the Provincial Congress, promising to supplement what was then sent with evidence that Cock had "spoken very disrespectfully of the Congress ;" and inviting that body to withhold the Commission to which Cock was entitled under the provisions of the Congress's own enactment. 5 Six days afterwards, fifty-nine of the Inhabitants of Yonkers presented a Petition to the Committee of Safety, justifying their action in electing Cock as their Captain, and asking that he might be commissioned, as such; 6 but Isaac Green, one of

"before the Committee of Safety for the County aforesaid, and being "duly sworn on the Holy Evangelists of the Almighty God, saith that " be the Deponent beiug appointed one of the Sub-Committee for the "superintending the signing of the General Association of this Province, " carried the same to one, John Cock, of the Yonkers, in said County, "and asked the said John Cock to sign the same; he, the said John " Cock taking the pen in his hand uttered the following words: ' I sign " ' this with my hand, but not with my heart, for I would not have " ' signed it had it not been for my wife and family's sake ; ' and this he "several times repeated in the hearing of him the Deponent. And "further the Deponent saith not.