Honourable Sir, In compliance with your honourable desire, signified to this Committee by Doctor Mead, who, at the request of this body, has made inquiry into the state of affairs in the County of Westchester, the result of which inquiry we beg leave to lay before your Honour, viz: That upon the best information he could obtain from the friends of the American cause in that quarter, there is now between Byram River and King's Bridge about two thousand barrels of pork, chiefly in the hands of Tories, besides what has been sent off, which is difficult to ascertain.

One Webb and Weyman, of the Borough of Westchester, put up about three or four hundred barrels, which they, (with themselves,) conveyed on board the Asia man-of-war, except twenty-four barrels, stopped by the Committee of New-York. That at the house of W. Sutton, Esq., of Maroneck, about twenty head of fat cattle had been barrelled within a few days past, which, by some of our friends in that neighbourhood, is supposed to be sent off for the Ministerial army; and that in the same neighbourhood, for three or four miles round, there are not more than eight or ten Whigs to one hundred and twenty Tories. The proceedings of the Committee of that County appear rash, dilatory, weak, and inadequate to their unhappy circumstances. That upon the 15th inst., a large yawl from the Asia, with about twenty-four men armed, came in the night into Maroneck harbour, and from the inimical inhabitants, was loaded with poultry and small stock for said ships; the friends of liberty were so few, that they were not able to collect sufficient force to make any timely opposition. That the Provincial Congress of New-York have sent two or three fruitless messages to the armed Tories in Queen's County, and then passed a resolve, that they should not be indulged the privilege of the [New] York markets, but cannot learn that they have taken any other. measures to suppress them. Said Congress adjourned 'till the 1st of February. It is said by one of their members, that some time had been spent by them in debating whether they should not address Mr. Tryon, for the purp?se of calling the General Assembly of that Province, to revive their old scheme of adopting the Parliamentary insult of the 20th of February last, which was rejected. And as to the conduct of the men-of-war in New-York, we cannot learn any thing more than what is inserted in the publick papers, to which we beg leave to refer your Honour, and are [&c.]

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