The substance of the Reports from the Committees sent to the seaport Towns of the Province, all mention of which was thus suppressed by the Town-Clerk, was saved to the world, however, in a Detpatch from Gov ei nor Gat/e lolhe Enrl of Durtmoiith, dated " Boston : May 19, 1774," and laid before the Parliament, on the nineteenth of January, 177o, in which it was said the Town-Meeting "appointed Persons to go to Marblehead "and Salem, to communicate their Sentiments to the People there, and "bring them into like Measures; which Pei"S*)n3 were to make their "Report at the Adjournment, ou the Isth, when the Meeting was again ' " held, and, I am told, received little encouragement from Salem and " Marblehead, and transacted nothing of consequence." -- {Partiameutarn Reijister, L, 30.)

''The first resi>onses from other Colonies which the Committee received were those, carried by Paul Revere, from Philadelphia and New York, which were anytliing else than "encouraging" to such as composed th.1t Committee ; and there can l>e very little doubt, in the light of what was done, very soon afterwards, in Connecticut and Rhode Island, that Revere carried Imck, from Hartford and Providence, tokensof what might be expected from those Colonies, al.<<), in opposition to the remarkable propositions of the Caucus of Town-Conmiittees, in Faneuil-Hall, and of the Town of Boston, on the following day.

HISTORY 0F WESTCHESTER COUNTY.

lowing day, and in the letters from the Committee of Correspondence, covering the proceedings of the Town, which were sent to the Committee in New York, on the following Saturday, as has been, herein, already stated.