could not surely preserve that peace, their appointment were useless -- the inhabitants of that County could not have been as " dangerous '' and its peace could not have been as " greatly disturbed " as the authors and promoters of these Resolutions had falsely pretended, among the recitals of their Preamble: others will 3uspect, not without reason, that the entire movement was a purely political job, gotten up for the purpose of affording political sop, at the expense of the Colony, for hungry adherents of the Bensons and the Morrise -- suspicions which would be well-founded, since neither of the Duchess-county Companies were subsequently known in history, exceptthroughthe requisition on the Treasurer of the Colony, for their Pay and Subsistence; 1 while the Westchester- county Company, without having become known to history, in its capacity of an armed police, is known, in the military annals of the State, 2 for having done nothing else than changed its Lieutenant, 3 for asking for greater Pay, 4

l Journal of the Provincud Congress, "Die Veneris, Novr. 1, 1776, 4 "o'clock, P.M."

- The only allusion to military duty discharged by this Company, which we have found, is that Order of the Provincial Congress, on the twenty-fifth of July, "that Captain Townsend of Westchester- county "return to duty, with his Company, at the mouth of Croton -river and i " such placcB adjacent as the Officer or Officers commanding the Ameri " can troops or Militia, there, shall direct," [Journal of the Provincial Oflgress, "Thursday morning, July 25,1770;") which was certainly beyond the line of duties for which it had been specifically raised.