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See, also, the same Advertisement and an editorial note thereon, in Holt's Setc-York Journal, No. Ifi37, New-York, Thursday, May 19, 1774 ; and HiiiiniloHs New-York Gazetteer, Xo. 57, New-York, Thursday, May 19, 1774; Gaine's Sew York Gazette and i1J«rr«ry, No. 1178, New- York, Monday, May 23, 1774 ; Lieulenaul-gorernor Cohten to Governor Tryon, " Si'RiX(i-HiLi., 31st May, 1774 ; " llie same to the Earl of Dartmouth, "New-York 1st June 1774;" Leake's Memoir of General John Lamb, 87 ; Dawson's Park and its Vicifiity, 33 ; etc.
2 "The Coffee-house," that place which was so frequently mentioned in the commercial as well as in the political afliiii's of the City, stood on the southeastern corner of Wall and AVater-streets, opposite the "Slip " which hol e its name.
Mr. de Lancey, in his Notes on Jones's History (i , 439) says it was on the "southeast corner of M'all and Pearl Stieets;" but he was certainly in error. Stevens, in his Progress of New York in a Century, 1776-1876, 25, correctly described the site of the old " .Merchants' Coffee-house."
number of that Committee to fifty-one ; and that, the unfranchised masses having been placated by the addition of another of their leaders to the proposed Committee of Correspondence, the entire list of nominees was confirmed, without farther opposition.''
3 ]\Tin%ttes of the Committee of Correspondence ; Holt's New-York Journal, No. 1G38, New- York, Thursday, May 26, 1774; Gaine's .Veir - I'ort Gazette and Merain/, No. 1178, New-Y''ork, Jlonday, May 23. 1774 ; Lietitenant governor Colden to Governor Tryon, " Spri.ng-Hili., 31st May " 1774 ; " the same to the Ear! of Dartmouth, '' New-York, 1st June 1774 ; " History of the H'ar iii America, (Dublin : 1779) i., 22 ; Dunlap's -Vcio York, i., 4.53 ; Hildrcth's Vnited/ States, First Series, iii., 3o ; Bancroft's I'nited States, original edition, vii., 42, 43 ; Frothingham'e /fise of the Uepublic, 327 ; Bancroft's United Slates, centenary edition, iv., 327, 328 ; Sparks's Life of Gonvemetir Morris, 22-20 ; Dawson's Park and Us Vicinity, 33.