3 Testimony of Cohnel Gilbert Budd of Mamaroneck, before (he Provincial Congress, -- Journal of tlte Provincial Congress, "Die Veneris, 10 ho. A.M., " November 3, 1775," (vide page 126, post.)

* This conflict between those who were executing the Orders of the Committee of Safety, for the disarmament of those who had not signed the Association, and those, in Westchester-county, who were intended to have been the victims of the Committee's aggreBsive policy, has been studiously concealed by all who have written on the subject of the American Revolution ; but the Provincial Congress, on the twelfth of December, gave the formal thanks of that body " to those of the Inhabitants of the Colony of Connecticut, who so cheerfully gave "their aid, at the request of the Committee of Westchester-county, "in the late suppression of the Insurgents in that County, against the "cause of Liberty," (Journal of the Provincial Congress, " Die Martis, 3 "ho., P.M., Deer. 12th, 1775,") which is ample authority, for the statement, in the text.

5 See pages 105, 106, 107, ante.

General Wooster and his command were encamped on property belonging to Arent Bussing, near Harlem, from the eighteenth of July, preceding, (Journal of Provincial Congress, " Die Martis, 9 ho., A.M., "July 18th, 1775.")

t "General Wooster is at Harlem, with about 400 men, which appear "to ns to be unemployed," (Letter from the Committee of Safety to the Continental Congress, "In Committee of Safety for thf. Colony of New "York, nuRiNG the recess of the Provincial Congress, New-York. "Sept. 19, 1775.")