" We, the Sub-Committee of Poundridge, in West-Chester County, " beg leave to inform your Honours that we are apprehensive that " there is danger of our prisoners leaving us and going to the Min- "isterial Army, as wo are not more than nine or ten miles from the " water, where the Sound is full of the Ministerial ships and tenders. 11 One of our number is already gone to Long-Island, and numbers are " gone from other places, which are, no doubt, now with the Minis- "terial Army. There are disaffected persons daily going over to them, " which gives us much trouble. Therefore, we humbly beg your Hon- "ours would give us some directions concerning them, that they may " be speedily removed at some farther distance. We would also inform "you that for the misdemeanors of one of them and our own safety, we " have been obliged to commit him to gaol at the White Plains.

" These, with all proper respects, from yours to serve, "Joshua Ambler, Chairman of Committee.

'■To the Honourable Convention of the State of New- York."

WESTCHESTER COUNTY.

with recitals of dangers from the "disaffected" who, singular as it appeared to those local despots, were not inclined to submit, passively, to whatever of insult or of injury those in revolution should be inclined to impose on them -- only in very exceptional instances, however, did that "disaffection" extend beyond a disinclination to approve, in formal words, all which the Congresses had done, while the inclination to approve the Colonial policy of Great Britain was no stronger ; and the general disinclination to leave their homes and their families and to resort to arms, or to render any assistance whatever, which the "disaffected," everywhere, presented, was as productive of disappointment to the commanders of the Boyal Army as it was to General Washington.