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History of Westchester County, New York — Passage 145 (part 2)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] After that he was escorted before the Westchester County commit-tee, on complaint made by the Cortlandt Manor committee, to be examined as to his political principles. These several unpleasant in-cidents all occurred in the months of May and June, 1776; and con sidering the respectable ami reverend character of Mr. Townsend, together with the circumstance that all but "three or four" of flu " Church people " of his parishes were Loyalists, the severity and per-EVENTS FROM JULY 9 to October 12, 1770 339