12 Journal of the Provincial Congress, " Die Jovis, 3 ho., P.M., December "14, 1775 ;" tlie same, "Die Veneris, 10 ho., A.M., Deer. 15, 1775 ;" tlie same, "Die Mercurii, 10 ho., A.M., Feb. 21, 1776;" tlie same, "Die " Luna.', 3 ho., P.M., March 4, 1776 ; " the same, " Die Mercurii, 10 ho., "A.M., March 13, 1776 ;" Journal of the Committee of Safety, "4 ho., "P.M., Feb. 10, 1776;" the same, "Die Luna?, 10 ho., A.M.," and "4 " ho., P.M.," " March 18, 1776 ; " the same, " Die Mercurii, 4 ho., P.M., "April 17, 1776; " etc.
The great quantities of Wheat, Flour, fresh and salted Beef and Pork, Hams, smoked Beef, Tallow, Lard, Poultry, and other products of the farms in Westchester-county, which, notwithstanding the disturbances which the farmers sustained, were marketed, exclusively of the supplies sent on the multitude of Market-sloops to the City of New York, during
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gometimes in the neighboring City; sometimes for the uses of distant communities, who sent there, for supplies ; sometimes for the uses of the Armies, in the field ; and, whenever an opportunity was afforded, to the men-of-war, in the harbor. The local Committees, sometimes, consequentially assumed to interrupt their traffic ; * and the Committee of Safety, in order to prevent "sundry persons from Connecticut" from purchasing, for the evident purpose of forestalling the market, "requested the Committee of the County " of Westchester to take effectual means to prevent " the sale and transportation of any barrelled Beef " or Pork out of Westchester-county, to any person or "persons residing out of this Colony, or for the use of *' any person or persons residing out of this Colony, " until the further order of the Provincial Congress ** or of the Committee of Safety of this Colony ; " 2 but, nevertheless, the fertility of the County and the patient industry of the greater number of those who lived therein were known and utilized, throughout the entire seaboard.