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History of Westchester County, New York — Passage 128 (part 2)
With the issues now more closely drawn by the unfriendly 298 HISTORY OF WESTCHESTER COUNTY attitude of the provincial assembly, it was certain that Philipse, Wil-kins, the de Lanceys, and their friends would assume to again control the course of Westchester County and to keep it well within the former moderate bounds. Principally through the efforts of Colonel Morris, a temporary com-mittee or caucus for the county was improvised, which on the 28th of March met at White Plains " for the purpose of devising means for taking the sense of the county,? relative to the appointment of dele-gates to the proposed provincial convention. There were present Col-o n e 1 Lewis Morris,