The Committee of Correspondence of the Colony of Connecticut concurred in the recommendation which the Committee in New York had made, on the fourth of June, {The Comuiitlee of Correspondence of the General Assembly of Xew York to the Committer of Cnirespondence of the Colon:/ of Connecticut, " New Yokk, June 24, 1774 ; ") the General Assembly of Rhode Island did so, on the fifteenth of June, (Jounia! of the General Asssmbly, June lo, 1774 -- Itecords of Rhode Island, vii,, 246 ;) the General Court of Massachusetts did so on the seventeenth of June, (Jourhid iif the Home of Itepresentatities, June, 1774;) and the City of Philadelphia, as above stated, did so on the eighteenth of June.
It has suited the purposes of some to bring forward the doings of eighty-nine members of the dissolved House of Burgesses of Yirginia, assembled at the Raleigh Tavern, at Williamsburg, on the twenty seventh of May, as a contestant for the honors of New York, in this matter; but that Meeting was held four days after the proposition had been made in New York ; and what it did Wiis only to " recommend to the Com- " mittee of Correspondence that they communicate with the several Cor- " responding Commitlees, on the expediency of appointing Deputies from "the several Colonies of British America, to meet in a General Con- "gres.s," etc., which was done on the following day, in which, however, nothing else was done than to solicit, from each Committee, its " senti> "ments on the subject." (Proceeding' of the Meeting, reprinted in the Huston <,'<ije«e of June 13, 1774, quoted by Frothingham, in his Rise of the Ripublic, 333.)