[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] of emergency. The royal army made no attempt against the Amer-ican intrenchments, but contented itself with taking possession of the city and throwing up new defenses for its more adequate pro-tection, while gradually making ready to throw itself bodily into Washington's rear, and thus either entrap him or force him to give battle. After the defeat on Long Island, the New York State convention, then sitting at Harlem, deeming that place insecure, adjourned to Fishkill. En runic to the new seat of Revolutionary government ses-sions were held by the committee of safety at Kingsbridge (August 30), at Mr. Udell's house in Philipseburgh Manor (August 31), and at Mr! Blagge's house at Croton River (August 31). In the weeks that followed the convention adopted a great number of measures inci-dental to the serious situation, of which many applied specially to Westchester County. We can not here attempt anything more than a mere allusion to some of the more interesting of these measures. Provision was made for removing all the horses, cattle, and other livestock from Manhattan Island and the exposed portions of West-chester County into the interior; the Westchester County farmers were directed to immediately thresh out all their grain, in order to furnish straw for the army; stores were taken from the State maga-EVENTS FROM JULY 9 TO OCTOBER 12, 1776 351