Westchester County, New York, During the American Revolution
It is not within the purposes of this publication, however, to take more than a passing notice
s Journal of the Committee of Safety, "Die Luna;, 4 ho., P.M., March "18, 1776;" and the same, "Die Martis, 4 ho., P.M., March 19, 1776."
» Journal of the CommUlee of Safety, " Die Sabbati, A.M., March 23, "1776."
"> General Washington to the President of Congress, " Cambridge, 4 Janu- "ary, 1776;" the same, "Cambridge, 11 January, 1776;" General Washington's Instructions to General Lee, " Head-Quarters, Cambridge, 8 Jan- "uary, 1776."
« General Washington's letter to John Adams, " Cambridge, 7 Janu- "ary. 1776," clearly indicated that General Lee operated on the Ccmmander-in-chief through John Adams, who was, then, in Massachusetts.
u General Washington to the CommUlee of Safety, " Cambridge, Janu- "ary 8, 1776."
1-ee, also, General Washington's Instructions to General Lee, "Head- " Quarters, Cambridge, 8 January, 1776."
WESTCHESTER COUNTY.
of any of these transactions of that early military power, in Queens-county or in the City of New York ; but those outrages which were inflicted by his authority, on the farmers of Westchester-county, while he was marching through the County, on his way to New York, may be noticed, in its pages -- in his progress over the well-known Post-road, between the Byram-river and Kingsbridge, the same line of march which had been traversed by Sears and his banditti, a few weeks previously, he appears to have regarded himself as the legitimate possessor of despotic powers, while those among whom he was, were considered as only base creatures who were absolutely subject to his unbridled caprices and to the most extravagant exactions of those who surrounded him. Notwithstanding, within the preceding six or seven weeks, the farmers who lived along or near the line of the Post-road had been visited by Sears and his gang of Connecticut banditti, both on their way to the City of New York and on their return, thence, to Connecticut, by whom, on each occasion, they had been ruthlessly plundered, 1 they were again visited, during that march of Connecticut-men, under General Lee, by that new detachment of New England freebooters, and robbed, to the full extent of the hungry desires of their brutal visitors.