[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] The " friends of government,'' after leaving the court house, or-ganized an independent meeting and adopted the following decla-ration, to which all present signed their names: We, the undersigned, freeholders and inhabitants of the County of Westchester, having assembled at the White Plains in consequence of certain advertisements, do now declare that we met here to express our honest abhorrence of all unlawful congresses and committees, and that we are determined at the hazard of our lives and properties to support the king and the constitution, and that we acknowledge no representatives but the general assembly, to whose wisdom and integrity we submit the guardianship of our rights and liberties. There were in all three hundred and twelve signers to this docu-ment, headed by Frederick Philipse, Isaac Wilkins, the Revs. Samuel Seabury and Luke Babcock, Judges Jonathan Fowler and Caleb Fow-ler, and several other prominent persons, including Mayor Nathaniel Underbill, of the Borough of Westchester, and Philip Pell, of Pelham Manor. The patriotic meeting at White Plains was conducted with perfect decorum, and, in spite of the aggressive speech of Mr. Wilkins against "disorderly proceedings" and "unlawful committees and congresses," Colonel Morris and his adherents had the good taste to refrain from all violent or vindictive expressions or doings on that occasion.