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History of Westchester County, New York — Passage 151 (part 2)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] The State convention, in ordering out these mili-tiamen, directed that if any of the men were without arms they should bring -a shovel, a pickaxes or scythe, straightened and fixed OI1 a poie." They were, moreover, to take with them all "disarmed and disaffected (Tory) male inhabitants between sixteen and fifty-five vears of age," who were to make themselves useful as fatigue llien»; and persons of this description who resisted orders were to be summarily court-martialed. The-State convention evidently did