" 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

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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.'

Those who had been appointed to membership in the proposed Committee of Correspondence of the City of New York-- in the "Committee of Fifty- " one," as it was popularly called -- were duly assembled, at the Coffee-House, on Monday, the twenty-third of May, 1774, forty-three of the fifty-one being present; and the Committee was duly organized by the appointment of Isaac Low, as its permanent Chairman, and that of John Alsop, as its permanent Deputychairman - -- at a subsequent Meeting, Joseph Allicocke was appointed Secretary, and Thomas Pettit, Messenger, of the Committee ; the first two, in whom some authority was vested, being high-toned, antirevolutionary Merchants ; while the last two, who were not membei-s of the Committee, and to whom no authority was given, were among those unfranchised, revolutionary Workingmen, whom the former had previously looked on with so much disfavor.