Godfrey Haines, Bartholomew Haines, Isaac Gedney, and -- -- Palmer, .all of them of Rye or Mamaroneck, are already known to the reader, in the sad story of the Sloop Polly and Ann, {page 119, ante ;) and James and William Lounaberry ; Isaac, John, and Joshua Gedney ; John Fowler ; Isaac and Peter Valentine ; Isaac, Joseph, and Joshua Purdy ; William Armstrong ; William Sutton ; John Flood ; Jaines, John, Thomas, and William Haines ; and Joshua Burrell, besides several others, were artreated, while they were prisoners. 5 They were plundered of their Arms, again and again, sometimes by Connecticut-men called in by the County Committee 6 or by the brutal General Charles Lee, T and sometimes by orders from the Provincial Congress or its Committee of Safety ; ° levies were made on her Militia, for the construction of the defensive works in the City of New York ; v and two Companies of the new Regiments in the New- York Line of the Continental Army were assigned to be raised in Westchester-county. 10 It is also noteworthy, as a portion of the history of that period, that Westchester-county afforded the first evidence of the alteration of a Provincial Bill of Credit -- one of the last emission, for five dollars, having been altered so that it appeared to have been one of ten dollars. 11

The opening of the new year -- the exact date does not appear, if it was ever definitely known -- witnessed a transaction by which the lower portion of the County of Westchester, especially the Towns of Mamaroneck, Eastchester, Westchester, and Yonkers, was greatly disturbed ; and yet it was an occurrence