Tompkins, and Lewis Graham, representing Westch ester-county ; 6 and, on the following day, that Committee recommended the employment of one hundred men in Duchess-county and fifty men in Westchester-county, " the said men " to be raised in the said Counties respectively, and " confined to the service of those Counties, and to " continue in pay until the first day of November "next, unless sooner discharged by this or a future "Congress."'

There appears to have been a serious opposition to the adoption of the Report, New York City and County leading in the opposition, but it was, nevertheless, adopted; 8 and, two days afterwards, [June 22, 177G,]

8 General Putnam to the Prorincial Congress, " Head-quarters, New- "York, June 3, 1776."

4 Journal of Hie Prorincial Congress, "Die Lunge, 4 ho., P.M., Juue 3 "1776."

6 Journal of the Provincial Congress, " Wednesday morning, June 19, '1776;" and the same, " Wednesday afternoon, June 19, 1776."

« Journal of the Prorincial Conaress, " Wednesday afternoon, June 19 "1776."

' Journal of the Provincial Cmujress, "Thursday morning, Juno 20 "1776."

8 Journal of Hie Provincial Congress, "Thursday morning June 20 "1776."

WESTCHESTER COUNTY.

after various manipulations, in a second Committee, 1 by " one of the Secretaries," 2 and by the Congress itself, 3 the subject was disposed of, in a series of Resolutions, which, it is said, " were unanimously ap- ' proved of."

As that entire subject relates to the local history of Westchester-county, at that period, and to the establishment of a military police force, in that County, evidently for the more effectual prosecution of the proposed operations of the recently created " Com- " mittee to detect Conspiracies " among the peaceable conservative residents of that County -- as no complaint had been made, by any one, of the slightest breach of the peace, in that County, and as its local County Committee had made no application for the establishment of such a military police force, for any purpose, there can be no doubt that, as far as the Company in Westchester-county was concerned, the project was a creation of the Deputation from that County, and for no other purpose than that of assisting the "Committee to Detect Conspiracies," of which Committee two members of that Delegation were also members, in harrying the conservative farmers of the County, in the interest of "the cause of America" and that of the leaders of the Rebellion, in New York -- for these reasons, the Resolutions may properly find a place in this narrative.