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Westchester County, New York, During the American Revolution

Dawson, Henry B. Westchester County, New York, During the American Revolution. Morrisania, NY: (privately printed by the author), 1886. 378 words

'■ Proper attention will be paid to the young Gentlemen, that they be " kept clean and decent, and that they behave with propriety ; and as " the most essential Part of Education is to qualify them to Discbarge "the Duties and Offices of Life with Integrity and Virtue, particular "Care will he taken to explain to them the Principles of Morality, and "the Christian Religion, by frequent short Lectures, adapted to their " Capacity.

"Board, (Washing included) may be had, in unexceptionable Fami- "lies, at about twenty Pounds per Ann. and the Tuition will be Bix " Pounds, New-York Currency, and eight Shillings for Firewood.

" Westchester is about nineteen Miles from New York, by Land, and "about fifteen by Water; and a Water passage may be had alnioBt " every Day, when the Weather will permit, in good safe Boats."

1 Memorial of Samuel Seabury to the General Assembly of Connecticut, December 20, 1775.

8 " Having possessed themselves of these three caitiffs, they sent them "to Connecticut under a Btrong guard."-(Tfte Connecticut Journal, No. 424, [New Haven,] Wednesday, November 29, 1775.)

See, also, Memorial of Samuel Seabury to the General Assembly of Connecticut, December 20, 1775.

• The Connecticut Journal, No. 424, [New Haven,] Wednesday, November29, 1775.

WESTCHESTER COUNTY.

lowing night is not now known -- it is not in the slightest degree probable that it paid its way, in whatever part of Westchester-county it billeted itself -- it is very evident, however, that it was expected by the leaders of the Rebellion, in the City of New York, since it was met and escorted into town by Samuel Broome, John Woodward, and others of their class ; 1 and it is said, also, that Alexander McDougal, Peter R. Livingston, John and Joshua Hett Smith -- the latter so conspicuous, subsequently, in the interviews between General Arnold and Major Andre and in the evident exposure of the latter to arrest -- and a number of others, their confelerates if not their tools, were assembled on Hanover-square, on which the Bookstore and Printing-office of James Rivington were situated, apparently and nominally for military exercises, but really for the purpose of covering and protecting the approaching banditti, in its proposed work of devastation and robbery. 2