that in the mean time the absent members be desired to attend.

Falmouth, March 3, 1775.

The Committee of Inspection met, pursuant to adjournment. Present: Enoch Freeman, Esquire, Messrs. Daniel Ilsley, Benjamin Titcomb, Enoch Ilsley, John Waite, Stephen Waite, Benjamin Mussey, William Owen, Samuel Knights, Jedidiah Cobb, John Butler, Jabez Jones, Smith Cobb, Peletiah March, Pearson Jones, Joseph Noyes, Samuel Freeman, Joseph McLellan, Theophilus Parsons.

The question being put, whether Captain Coulson’s taking said Rigging and Sails out of the vessel in which they arrived, and his appropriating them to rig his new Ship, in order to send her to England, will be a violation of the American Association:

After a long and serious debate, it was

Resolved in the affirmative, by a majority of fourteen to five.

Voted, therefore, That said Rigging, Sails, and Stores for said new Ship, ought forthwith to be sent back again, without breaking any of the packages thereof, by a majority of fourteen to five.

Voted, nemine contradicente, That all other goods and merchandise that were imported in said vessel ought also forthwith to be sent back again without breaking any of the packages thereof.

Voted, That Messrs. Enoch Ilsley, John Waite, and Daniel Ilsley be a Committee, immediately to inform Captain Coulson of the result of this Committee, and that they are now sitting, if he is desirous to attend them.

Captain Coulson attended, and informed the Committee the vessel in which his Rigging and Sails arrived was so out of repair, that she was unfit to return back again until she was repaired, and that in order to repair her the freight must be taken out.

The meeting was then adjourned to three o’clock, P. M., to meet at the same place.

Three o’clock, P. M.

The Committee met, pursuant to adjournment.

Voted, That the Sub-Committees chosen by the first and second votes of yesterday, be discharged from any further service as Sub-Committees.

Voted, That this Committee will exert their utmost endeavours to prevent all the inhabitants of this Town from engaging in any riots, tumults, and insurrections, or attacks on the private property of any person, as pernicious to the real interest thereof, as well as injurious to the liberty of America in general, and that they will, as far as lies in their power, promote peace and good order, as absolutely necessary to the existence of society.

Ordered, That the result of this Committee, together with the foregoing vote last passed, be posted up in some publick place in the Town, signed by the Chairman.

Attest:

THEOPHILUS PARSONS, Clerk.

London, April 11, 1775.

Assistance to the Americans is rising from a new quarter. The following information may be depended upon: a Ship sailed from Stettin last month, loaded with Small Fire-Arms, Gunpowder, Ball, and Accoutrements, thirty Field-pieces of a light construction, and eight General Officers, who have served long in Germany; three of them are Messrs. Robeveils, Larafont, and Gurgenstein. The arms and ammunition are actually paid for by an American agent at Berlin, who went thither from Paris; but what the footing is upon which the Officers go, is only conjectured. They are Lutherans, and certainly do not go upon mere hope of preferment. This must be a scheme of the Prussian Monarch’s for disconcerting the Court of London, with whom he is upon the worst terms.

New-York, April 14, 1775.

By accounts from Staten Island, we learn that the inhabitants of that place assembled on the 11th instant, in order to take the sense of the County upon the question, Whether they would nominate Deputies to concert with other Deputies in New-York, about the choice of Delegates for the ensuing Congress? When it was almost unanimously agreed against sending Deputies.

MEETING OF FREEHOLDERS OF WESTCHESTER COUNTY, NEW-YORK.

White-Plains, in the County of Westchester, April 11, 1775.

On the 28th of March last, the following gentlemen having received letters from the Chairman of the Committee of the City and County of New-York, relative to the appointment of Deputies for this County, met at this place for the purpose of devising means for taking the sense of the County upon the subject, viz: Theodosius Bartow, Esq., William Sutton, Esq., Captain Joseph Drake, James Willis. Benjamin Drake, Moses Drake, Colonel Lewis Morris, Thomas Hunt, Abraham Legget, James Horton, Jun., Esq; Stephen Ward, and Abraham Guion, Esq., who, having taken the same into consideration, agreed to send the following notification to the principal freeholders in the different Towns and Districts in the County, viz:

March 28, 1775.

SIR: A number of gentlemen from different Districts in the County of Westchester, having this day met at the White-Plains, to consider of the most proper method 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, 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, are of opinion that the best way of proceeding for that purpose will be to have a general meeting of the freeholders of said County. As this County is very extensive, 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-House, 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 and vote on that day, will be presumed to acquiesce in the sentiments of the majority of those who vote.

We are, &c., &c.

The above notice having been generally given and distributed, a very numerous body of freeholders of the County assembled at the Court House at the White-Plains, on the day appointed, and chose Colonel Lewis Morris for their Chairman. An inconsiderable number of persons, (among whom were many tenants not entitled to vote) with Isaac Wilkins, Esq. and Colonel Phillips at their head, then appeared; and 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 and unconstitutional proceedings; after which they departed.

The following question was then put to the people by the Chairman, viz: Whether they would appoint Deputies for this County, to meet the Deputies of the other Counties at the City of New-York, on the 20th of April 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?

To which question they unanimously answered that they would.

They then appointed the following eight persons, or a majority of them, to be the Deputies of this County, for the purpose aforesaid, viz: Colonel Lewis Morris, Stephen Ward, Daniel Drake, Esq., Colonel James Holmes, John Thomas, Jun. Esq., Jonathan Platt, Esq., Robert Graham, Major Philip Van Cortlandt.

The two following Resolves were then unanimously entered into, viz:

Resolved, That the thanks of this body be given to the virtuous minority of the General Assembly of this Province, and particularly to John Thomas and Pierre Van Cortlandt, Esquires, two of our Representatives, for their firm attachment to, and zeal on a late occasion, for the preservation of the union of the Colonies, and rights and liberties of America; and that this Resolve be communicated by the Chairman to every gentleman of whom that minority consisted.

Resolved, That the thanks of this County are due to the Delegates who composed the late Congress, for the essential services they have rendered to America in general; and that this Resolve he forthwith published.