The proceedings of the various meetings held here would afford matter for a good size volume, we shall therefore present our readers with a small part only of the important productions of those eventful times. The following resolutions were adopted by the freeholders and inhabitants of Rye and Westchester : --

" On the loth day of August, 1774, the freeholders and inhabitants of the township of A^c-, made choice of Jolm Thomas, Jr. Esquire, Robert Bloomer, Zeno Carivnter and Ebenozer Haviland, for a committee to consult and determine with the committees of the other towns and dis-

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tricts in the County of Westchester, upon the expediencv of sendin./ oror more delegates to Congress to-be held in Philadel])hia, on tht^nr't day of September, next. The committee, after making choice of E!)' enezer Ha\-iland, as chairman, expressed their sentiments and resolutions m the follo^\•ing manner, which was unanimously approved :

"This meeting being greatly alarmed at the late proceedings of the Briti.?h Parliament, in order to raise a revenue iu America, and considering tlieir Lumost cruel, unjust and mnvarrantable act for blocking up the port'^of Boston, having a direct tendency to deprive a free people of their most valuable rights and privileges, an introduction to subjugate the inhabitants of the English colonies, and render them vassals to the British House of Commons, Ht-sokal,

1st, that they think it their greatest happmess to live under the illustrious hou=;> of Jlanover. and that tivjy will steadfaarly ar.d unifornily bear true and faithful allegiance to his majesty King George the Third, under the enjovment of thov constitutional rights and privileges, as fellow subjects, with tliose m England