" 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

Btsolred. "That the treasurer and secretary of this Congress be and they hereby are directed forthwith to repair, witli all aud singular, the public papers and money, now in their custody or possession, unto the Mliite Plains, in the county of Westchester, and that this Congress be, and it hereby is, adjourned unto the Caurt House in the White F,lains aforesaid, there to meet on Tuesday, the 2d of July next, and proceed upon business ; and that the next Congress of this county do meet at the same place on Monday, the Sth day of July aforesaid, unless otherwise ordered by the Congress."

It was carried in the affirmative; for the question, 20, against ditto, 5.

And it was further ordered '-that all the lead, powder and other militarystores belonging to this State, be forthwith removed to the White Plains."''