In Provincial Convention, April 20. 1775 On the 28th day of March 1775, a No. of Gentl from difft districts in the county of Westchester met at the White Plains &c & recommended a general meeting of the Freeholders of the said County, to be held at the Court House at that place, on Tuesday the 11th day of April the next, at 10 o'clock A.M., for the purpose of taking the sense of the Freeholders of the said County upon the expediency of choosing Deputies, to meet the Deputies of the other Counties, in order to elect Delegates to represent this Colony in the Continental Congress, to be held at Philadelphia, on the 10th day of May next. - In pursuance whereof, a very numerous body of the Freeholders of the County assembled at the Court House at White Plains, on the 11th day of April 1775, & chose [illegible] Lewis Morris for their Chairman &c. - An inconsiderable no. of persons (among whom were many Tenants not entittled to a vote.) with Isaac Wilkins Esq. & Col.
Philipse at their head then appeared; & Mr. Wilkins in their behalf as he said, declared that they would not join in the business of the day, or have any thing to do with Deputies or Congresses. But that they came there for the sole purpose of protesting against such illegal & unconstitutional proceedings. - After which, they departed." - These were afterwards called "Protestors." - "Whereupon the Freeholders then there met. appointed the said Col. Lewis Morris, III*, Stephen Ward, Samuel Drake Esq., John Thomas junior Esq. - Robert Graham Esq., & Major Philip Van Cortlandt, together with Col. James Holmes, & Jonathan Platt Esq. or the majority of them, to be the Deputies of the said County of Westchester, to meet the Deputies of the other Counties, at the City of New York, on the 20th day of April then instant, for the purpose of electing Delegates to represent this Colony in the General Congress to be held at Philadelphia on the 10th day of May next" ..e. 1775, pp. 2&3