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The History of the Several Towns, Manors, and Patents of the County of Westchester, Vol. II (1881 revised ed.)

Bolton, Robert Jr. The History of the Several Towns, Manors, and Patents of the County of Westchester, from its First Settlement to the Present Time, Vol. II. New York: Charles F. Roper, 1881. 305 words

As this county is very e.vtensive, we take the liberty of recommending the meeting to be held at the White Plains, on Tuesday, the 11th day of April next, at 10 o'clock in the forenoon, at the Court Hume, and therefore do desire you to give notice of the same to all the freeholders in your district, without exception, as those who do not appear to vote on that day will be presumed to acquiesce in the sentiments of the majority of those who vote. We are, (tc. , &:c.

The above notice having been generally given and distributed, a very cunurous body of freeholders of the county, assembled at the Court House, TNhite Plains, on the day apppointed, and cho.se Colonel Lewis :\rorris for their chairman. An inconsiderable number of persons, (among whom were many tenants not entitled to vote), with Isaac Wilkius and Colonel Philips at their head, tlicn appeared ; and ?Ir. Wilkins, in their behalf, (as he said), doclaied that they would not join in the business of the day, or have anything to do with the Deputies or Congresses; but that they came there for the sole purpose of protesting against such illegal and imconstitutional proceeding.-;, after which they departed.^ TliC following question was tlicn put to the people by the chairman, viz.:-- whether they would appoint Deputies for this Coimty to meet the Deputies of the other Counties at the city of Xow York, on the 20th of April inst., for the purpose of electing delegates to represent this Colony in the General Congress, to be held at Philadelphia, vn the lOih day of May next? To which question they unanimously answered tliat they would. They then appointed the following eiu'ht persons, or a majority of them, to be the Deputies of this County, for tlu^ purpose aforesaid, viz..