The facts are thus related in the official records of the Committee of Safety ; 3 and the reader may judge therefrom, something concerning the animus of the Committee of Bedford, when, on the second occasion, it interfered with the disposition of the products of Connecticut, within the Colony of New York, while the disposition of the products of farms in Bedford and its vicinity, in Connecticut, was interfered with and stopped, summarily, by a higher authority.

"Col. Gil. Drake informed the Committee that " sundry persons from Connecticut are purchasing "up" [for speculative purposes ?~\ "the barrelled Beef " and Pork in Westchester. Thereupon the Commit- " tee came to the following Resolution, to wit :

"'Whereas the Continental Congress, by their " 'Resolution of the first day of November last, have " ' resolved that no produce of the United Colonies "'be exported, except from Colony to Colony under " ' the directions of the Committees of Inspection and " ' Observation, and except from one part to the other " ' of the same Colony, before the first day of March " 'next, without the permission or order of the Con- " ' tinental Congress ;

" ' And whereas this Committee of Safety for the " ' Colony of New York conceives that it is necessary "'to prevent the sale of all the barrelled Beef and " ' Pork in the County of Westchester, and to retain " ' the same for the Continental service in this Col- " ' ony, as such Provisions may be necessary for the " ' Continental Army in this Colony :