[Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)] The year preceding the commencement of hostilities betwa;*^ the mother country and her colonies. His Excellency, William Tryon, and suite, paid an unlocked for visit here, of which Gen. COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER. Ill Philip van Cortland t thus speaks : " I remember Governor Try on came in a vessel bringing his wife and a young lady, who was a danghter of the Hon. John Watts, a relation of my father, and Col. Edmund Fanning, his friend and secretary; and after re-maining a night, he proposed a walk, and after proceeding to the highest point of land on the fiirm, being a height which affords a most delightful prospect, when the governor commenced with observing what great favors could be obtained if my father would relinquish his opposition to the views of the king and parliament of Great Britain, what grants of land could and would be the conse-quence, in addition to other favors of eminence, consequence, cfcc. My father then observed that he was chosen a representative by the unanimous approbation of a people who placed confidence in his integrity to use all his ability for their benefit and the good of his country as a true patriot, which line of conduce he was de-termined to pursue. The governor then turned to Col. Fanning and said, '*' I find our business here must terminate, for nothing can be effected in this place, so we will return;" which they did by taking a short and hasty farewell, and embarked on board the sloop and returned to New York.