**The Minult'sof the Committeeof Con-esjiondence, " Nkw York, Monday, " Maij 23, 1774," contain a record of the reading ot " Lettei-s from the ** Committee of Correspondence of Boston, with a Vote of the Town of " Boston, of the 13th instant, and a Letter from the Connnittee of Phil- "adelpliia ; " and, in the absence of any allusion to any other letter whatever, there is no reaiion for supposing that anything, in luldition to those three lettei-s, was received from any other organization or person, at Boston or elsewhere.

" Revere was at Philadeli)hia, on the twentieth of May, when the inhabitants of that City appointed its Committee of Corresiwndence ; and, on the following day, he left that City, on his return, carrying with him, to New York and Boston, if not to other Towns and Cities on his route, copies of a Circular Letter, probably from the pen of John Dickinson, containing the response of I'hila<lelphia to the Boston Resolutions, and, generally, surveying the political situation of the Colonies, from the rhiladelphia standpoint. -- (I'roceedmgs of the JUeetin/j which ajipointeJ the Committee, May 2U, 1774, (iiid a copy of the Circular Letter, icritlen by the

HISTORY OF WESTCHESTER COUNTY.

those who had been nominated to the Committee of Correspondence in New York, the Committee itself not having been formally established, evidently availed themselves of that opportunity to write to Philadelphia, in which, also, no Committee had been appointed, on the subject of the Boston Resolutions, and, unquestionably, in opposition to the propositions which they contained.'