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. Baltimore : 18,34, 100 ; Grahame's History of the I'nited Stales, London : 183G, iv., 349; Lossing's Screnteen hundred and seventy-six. New York : 1847, 123 ; his Pield-Kook of the Revolution, New York : 1851, ii., 486 ; Ridpath's History of the I'nited Slates, New York : 1880, 296 ; A. H. Stephens's History nf the I'nited Slates. New York : 1874, lUC, 167 ; Holmes's HisUnry of the I'nited Slates, New York : 1871, 105, and several othei-s. assigned the proposition for a Congress to Virginia. Mercy Warren's History of the American Revolution, Boston : 1805, i., 135 ; Leniliums History of the American Revolution, Exeter: 1836, i., 63 ; De Rochelle's Atuts Vnis d' Amirique, Paris : 1815, 173 ; Losung's History of the I'nxted Stales, New York: 1857, 227; and the series of small Histories of the United States, by the same author, without alluding to what was done in New York, preferred to regard what was done by the House of Representatives of Massachusetts, on the seventeenth of June, as the origin of the Congress. Frothingham's Rise of the Republic, 322, ■323, ostentatiously presented what was done in Massachusetts and "the "other New England Colonies," and then siiid with questionable integrity, as he was acquainted with the facts, " the sentiment and determination " of the patriots south of New England were represented in thepro- " ceedings of the Virginia meeting, " which he described, at considerable length, without making the slightest allusion to the earlier proceedings of Pennsylvania and New York, where the Congress certainly originated.