"At a meeting of the freeholders and inhabitants of the Borouo-h town of Westchester, iu New York, the 20th of August, 1774, James Ferris" Esq., Col. Lewis Morns, and Capt. Thomas Hunt, were chosen a committee to meet a com- R-nttee of the different towns and precincts within this countv, at the White Plains on Monday the 2ed inst., to consult on the expediency of appointing one or more delegates to represent tlus county at the General Congress, &c., and James

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Ft rii.>, Esq.. being unanimoasly chosen cbairinan ; the committee, after coiisid- » r::i_' the very alaniiiug situation ol" their sulTering brethren In Uoston, occasioned h\ the late unconstitutional, arbitrary and oppressive act of the British ParlialiRiif , for blocking up their port, as well as the several acts imposing taxes 0:1 the Colonics In order to raise a revenue in America, thought proper to adopt the following resolutions, wliich were unanimously agreed to : --

'^Rfsolced. 1st., That we do and will bear true allegiance to his majesty (.Jcorge the Third, Kmg of Great Britain, and according to the British constitution.

"2udly, That we conincide jn opinion with our friends in New York and every other Colony, that all acts of the British ParHament imposing taxes on the Colonies without their consent or by their representatives, are arbitrary and opnressivc, and should meet ths abhorence and detestation of all good men: that they are replete with the purpose of creating animosities and dissensions between tiio mother country and the colonies, or thereby tend to destroy that harmony and iimtual agreement which is so much the interest of both to cherish and maintain.