"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.

" William Habley. "Sworn the 11th Sept., 1775, " before me,

"Gilbt Deake."

4 Votes of the Militia Embodyed, etc. -- Historical Manuscripts, etc., Jltlitary Returns, xxvi., 23; xxvii., 263.

5 Letter from Gilbert Drake, Chairman, to John Having, Chairman of the Committee of Safety, at New York, " White-Plains, Sept. 11th, 1775."

6 Journal of the Committee of Safety, "Die Lunse, 9 ho., A.M., September 18, 1775."

The Petition thus presented has been preserved ; and the following ■ has been copied from it -- Historical Manuscripts, etc., Petitions, xxxi., 101.

" To the Honb 10 The Provincial Congress of the Province op New "York in the Citv of New York Convene -- Or in their Recess, "To the Hono W8 The Committee op Saftet.