History of Westchester County, New York, Vol. I
The Committee of Correspondence in New York having, meanwhile, received assurances of their apjjroval of its proposition to invite a meeting of Deputies from the several Colonies, in a Continental Congress, from the Committee of Corresiwndence of Connecticut * aud. from that in Philadelphia^ -- with the knowledge, also, that the "Standing Committee ot "Correspondence," which the General Assembly of the Colony of New York had appointed, on the twentieth of January, 1774, had also apjiroved and concurred in that proposition,'' and, undoubtedly, although informally,' with information of the action of the Town of Boston and of that of the House of Re[)resentatives of Massachusetts, on the same subject, -- on the twenty-seventh of June, it entertained and " debated "
' Proreedinijs nf the Ailjonrned Tuwii-Meelitif/, .luno 17, 1774, reprintfil in Force's American Archivi^n, Fourth Series, i., 423.
■* The Comitiillte <f CorresjHniilenct' for Cotinectieut to the Commitle' in Xew Yorl; "Hartford, June 4, 1774," enclosing a letter, to the same effect, which hail been sent by the Committee in Ilartfora to the Committee in Boston, on the preceding day.
^ Procerdiii;/!! of a Meeting of the Freeho'tlers and Freemen of tlie Cilij and County of Philadelphin, Snlttrdai/, June IS, 1774, enclosed in a letter from the Comniittec of Correspondence in Philadelphia to the Committee in New York, " Piiil\dei,phia, 2l9t June, 1774."
"That Committee of the Assembly «a.s composed of John Cruger Frederick Philipse, Isaac Wilkins, Benjamin Seaman, James .Jauncey James De Lanccy, Jacob Walton, Simeon Boerum, John Dp Xoyelles, (ieorge Clinton, Daniel Kissam, Zebulon Williams, and John Rapalje, the names of ten of whom, including that of Frederick Philipse of AVestchester-county, are appended to a letter, aildressed to the Committee of Correspondence of Connccticnt, dated " New Yurk, Juno 24, 1774," in which it "agrees with you, that, at this alarming juncture, a general "Congress of Depxities from the several Colonies woulil be a very e.xpe- "dientand salutary mea,sure," regretting, however, that it was " not "sufticientl.V empowered to take any ste{>s in relation to so salutary n " measure."