On this day 250 years ago in New York City a report subsequently published in Holt’s Journal stated that

It is said that at least three-fourths of the people in Cortlandt’s manor, New York, have declared their unwillingness to enter into the Congressional measures, that a great number of the people in general in Westchester county are preparing to do the like, and that the association against the Continental Congress has been signed by three hundred persons in the neighborhood of Poughkeepsie only. Many lists are sent about Dutchess county, on which also many hundreds have subscribed.

Source: https://www.americanhistorycentral.com/entries/february-1775/

Also on this day George Mason wrote George Washington from Gunston Hall, Virginia about 80 casks of gunpowder, 10,000 musket flints, paper, and other war supplies shipped from Philadelphia to Washington for use of the Fairfax Independent Company of militia. The gunpowder was twice the amount that Washington and Mason had ordered and Mason wrote to Washington about the possibility that the excess powder could be used by the Loudoun County Independent Company and suggesting that they collect contributions from the members of the Fairfax Independent Company to help defray the cost of the powder.

Source: “To George Washington from George Mason, 17 February 1775,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/02-10-02-0198. [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Colonial Series, vol. 10, 21 March 1774 – 15 June 1775, ed. W. W. Abbot and Dorothy Twohig. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1995, pp. 265–267.]

And also on this day in Boston Governor Gage wrote to Lord Dartmouth about sentiments in New York:

Your Lordship will be told of the late instance of loyalty in the New-York Assembly, which has had very good effects, and we are told that they are changing their sentiments at Philadelphia. The fury into which people were thrown, and which spread like an infection from Town to Town, and from Province to Province, is hardly to be parallelled, where no oppression was actually felt; but they were stirred up by every means that art could invent. They were made to believe that their religion was in danger; their lands to be taxed; and that the Troops were sent to enforce the measures, and wantonly to massacre the inhabitants. People well disposed caught the popular fever, and when it raged at the highest, the Delegates were chosen for the Continental Congress; so that, as we are told, the greatest incendiaries in most Provinces were elected. It required temperate management and much pains to undeceive the people, who are more moderate in general, though numbers still hold their first prejudices.

If this Provincial Congress is not to be deemed a rebellious meeting, surely some of their Resolves are rebellious, though they affect not to order, but only to recommend measures to the people.

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