'■That at and near the White Plains (which is the head Quarters of "the Company) the allowance for their subBistance does not amount to "near enough to support them, they being unable to get victuals for "less than Is. per Meal, or to hire their Board at any tolerable rate but "by the woek ; that your Petitioners entered the Company & Did duty "in the most busy season of tho year bofuro & during llurvest time & " have had a harder share of duty than the Troops who were allowed by "your honorable House 20 Dollars Bounty & who have generally " received near 40 Dollars.

" Your Petitioners therefore humbly pray that your honorable House "will be pleased to increase tho Pay for their Suhsistance so far as to " enable them when they live with Frugality to support themselves by it " in the part of tho County where they may reside, or be ordered. And "your Petitioners us in duty bound shall ever pray, Ac.

" Zephaniah Miller, Lieutenant, William Frodonborough,

" Jacob Travis, Serjent, Jonathan Ferris,

" William Martin * Serjent, Robert Bloomer, Jun',

*The DopOBition of John Martino, "of tho Manor of Philipsburg near "the White Plains," (Historical Manuscripts, etc.; Miscellaneous Papers, xxxv., 273,) shows that this was William Martine, his son.

and for drawing the Pay which was legitimately due to it. 5

Another instance of the spirit of partisan bitterness which prevailed, at that time, in Westchestercounty, and of the unholy zeal with which the Town Committees urged forward the work of persecution and plunder, among their conservative neighbors, may be seen in the following note which was addressed by the Chairman of the Committee of the Town of Salem, \a that County -- that Committee which, a short time previously, had laid an embargo on Cattle intended for the supply of the inhabitants of the City of New York 6 -- to the Provincial Congress :