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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1901 Excerpt: ...fled to the British, others were publicly exposed, and a few were sent to the committee of safety." 1 Jour, of Prov. Conv., i, 694-695, 706, 707. Am. Archs., 5th ser., iii, 266, 574-575. Ibid., 586. 4 Ibid., 1076. I Ibid., 574-575; Jour, of Prov. Conv., i, 890-891. Am. Archs., 5th ser., i, 128, 239, 358, 488. 14'Ibid., ii, 216-219. Ibid., i, 1408,1413. 9 Ibid., 1404, 1408, ii, 1026, iii, 205, 238, 239; Jour, of Prov. Conv., 654,666, 757, 758, 766; MS. Revolutionary Papers, vi, 359. 10 Am. Archs., 5th ser., ii, 352. II Jour, of Prov. Conv., i, 648, 667, 688, 719; Am. Archs., 5th ser., iii, 1169; Cal. N. Y. Hist. MSS., i, 351; Moore, Diary of Am. Rev., 290. The committee of Tryon county had a hard role to play. It permitted some tories to return and treated others leniently, though they were constantly guarded.1 Ulster county was comparatively free from loyalists. The Claverack committee, however, petitioned the Convention in 1777 for a company of rangers "to quell the disaffected." The committee in Westchester county was constantly occupied. The people were badly disaffected and the harshest measures were taken to render them harmless.4 Thus it appears that after 1776 the local committees, though still in existence in the counties not held by the British and occupied by them until the war closed, gradually waned in their powers and activity. They were the most effective as factors in dealing with loyalism when centralized power was weak, when laws and precedents remained to be made, and when loyalists were rendered harmless only through the activity of local patriotic sentiment as expressed in an organized committee. But as a strong state government was formed and laws were passed to deal with the tories, and general committees were created ...
