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.

Notwithstanding the important results which the appointment of that Committee of Correspondence produced, it was not even alluded to by Stedraan, {Hislonj of the American War;) Mercy Warren, {History of the American Revolution :) Blorse, {Annals of the Ameri4:an llevotution :) Pitkin, (History of the Vnited Stales ;} Lossing, {Seventeen hundred and sevenlij-.'iLr ; History of the United States, edition of 1857 ; and Field-book of the Revolution ,) aiid many others.

Judge Jones, {History of New York, during the Revolnfionary llrtr, t,, 34) supposed the " Committee was chosen,"' at the Caucus, at Sam. Francis's; and made no allusion to the Meeting at the Coffee-house, where it " was chosen." Doctor Gordon, ( KiA(o/-y o/ American Revohttion, London : 178S, i., 3C1, 362,) said the Caucus was called by Sears, McDougal, and others of the popularparty, so called ; that " the Tories," or governmental party, opposed them, in the Caucus ; that Sears secured the appointment of a fifty-second member of the Committee ; and that the whole suliject was disposed of by the Caucus.