[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] County is concerned, no evidence exists that any results to sustain him in such an expectation followed the undoubted attempts to stim-ulate Tory courage incidental to the dispatch of the " Phoenix " and kk Rose " up the Hudson. Too much praise can not be given the New York State convention for its vigorous and well-considered measures at this time of uncer-tainty regarding the intent ions of the enemy. With the situation below the Harlem River Washington was competent to deal in all its details, but the convention relieved him of much of the responsi-bility and distraction that would have been involved in caring for the security of the country above. Provisions and other stores having been accumulated in the neighborhood of Peekskill, the convention ordered their removal to places which would be less exposed to danger from possible British landing parties. Militia re-enforce-ments for Forts Constitution and Montgomery were provided for. One-fourth of the entire militia of Westchester, Dutchess, and Orange Counties was called out, and, in view of the emergency, each militia-man taking the field was granted a bounty of twenty dollars ut gen-erous allowance in the circumstances of the time), with continental pay ami subsistence. This whole militia force (Westchester County's contingent being under the command of Colonel Thomas Thomas) was ordered to Peekskill as the strategic point for repelling the expected attack on the Highlands.