"We the subscribers do hereby make this public declaration, that whereas, wc and several others in ~\S'cstchcster county, having signed a certain number of Resolves, which at the time of our said signing were deemed constitutional, and as Laving a tendency lu promote the interest of our country; but, since upon Diatiue deliberation and more full knowledge of the matter find not only injurious to our present cause, but likewise offensive to our fellow colonists, we do therefore thus publiclj' testify our abhorrence of the same, and declare ourselves

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true friends to the colonies, and ever ready cheerfully to exert ourselves in tlic defence cad preservutiou of the same."" Jon vtiivv Fowlek E^q

Geokge Crom%cell, Esq.

" At a meeting of freeholders of Westcliester county, New York, at the Jl7iite Plains, on Monday, the Sth day of May, 1775, Governeur Morris, Lewis Graham, James Van Cortlandt, Stephen Ward, Joseph Drake, Philip Van Cortlandt, James Holmes, David Dayion, John Holmes, Jr., Robert Graham, and William Paulding, were chosen to be the deputies from this County to the Provincial Convention of the Province of New York."*

"On the 30th of June, 1776, the Provincial Congress of this State adjourned from the city of New York, to the Court House, in White Plains, where they met on the 9th of July following, and there continued in session uinil the 29th of that month."'^

In Pro\incial Congress, New York, 30th June, 1776, Sunday afternoon, it was