Commillee -- both re-printed in Force's American Archives, Fourth Series, i., 340-342.)

1 The Committee of Correspondence of Philadelphia to the Committee of Correspondence to Boston, " Piiilapelpiiia, May 2\ft, 1774," copies of which " were transmitted to New-Toik and most of the Southern Colo- "nies."

2 Minutes of the Commillee, " Xkw-Tork, Mondor/, Mnij 23(/, 1774."

3 Minutes of the Committee, " Kew-York, M<ajW, 1774."

* Minutes of theCommiltee, " Xew-Yobk, Monday, May'lM, 1774." See, also Holt's JVeic-Fori: Jrmrnal, No. 1i)38,Xew-Tork, Thursday, May 26,1774, in which appeal's the following : " Since the MeetingattheCofhad proposed the Caucus which had been assembled at Sam. Francis's had been established ; the unfranchised masses and those who had assumed to be their leaders had been generally hoodwinked ; and even the watchful " Sons of Liberty," with here and there an exception, were apparently contented.

At the same meeting of the Committee, the letters from the Committees of Correspondence in Boston and Philadelphia, to which reference has been made, were laid before it. The letter from Philadelphia being only a reflex of what had been written to that Committee by those who had subsequently been confirmed as members of this, it received no official attention, at that time ; but those from Boston, which included the Vote of the Town of which mention has been made, were referred to a Sub-committee, composed of Alexander McDougal, Isaac Low, James Duane, and John Jay, with instructions to consider the subject to which those letters were devoted; to prepare a draft of an answer thereto ; and to report the same, to the Committee, at eight o'clock on the same evening, to which hour the Committee then adjourned.^