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.)

The reliability of what is known as "history" may be seen in what has been i)ublished concerning this first proposition to convene a Congress of the Colonies. Frothingham, (Rise of the Republic, 322,) is the only one who has alluded to the really original, but impracticable, proposition by the Town of Providence. Without making the slightest allusion to what was done in New York, Burke's Annnal Register for 1775, G; Histori/ of the Il'nr m /fiiicricu, Dublin : 1779, i., 21; Andrews's Hitloi-y o f the War tcith .4»i(eric«, ^London : 1785,1., 135; Soule's /fwioire des Troubles deVAmeriijne Anglaise, Paris: 1787, i., 48; Chez et Lebrun's Hiit'dre pidHinue et philosophiqne de'la Rci olution, Vnris : au 9, 109; Stedman's Hislm-ii of the American Il'ar, London: 1794, i., 94, 95 ; .\dolphus's Historij of England, London : ls05, ii., 124; " Paul Allen's" History of the Anieriran Revolution, Baltimore: 1822, i.,184; Pitkin's History of the L'nUed Stales, New Haven: 1828, i., 271, 272; Wilson's ffisiory of the American Reioliilion.