"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."

' The Minutct of the Committee in Xew York, notwithstanding the carefully made record of the letters which were received by it, make no mention whatever of its receipt of letters from either the Town of Boston or the House of Representatives of Massachusetts, on any subject, after its receipt of that, from the former, dated the thirtieth of May ; ami it may, therefore, be reasonaldy supposed that whatever knowledge the Committee then po5se<9ed, concerning the ptditical some sault of tl.e Massachusetts-iiioii, was iMioifirial nnd informal.

HISTORY OF WESTCHESTER COUNTY.

a Resolution, oftered by Alexander McDougal, concerning " which was the most eligible mode of ap- " pointing Deputies to attend the ensuing General " Congress." ^

In submitting that Resolution, which had not received the imprimatur of those who represented the majority of the Committee, and, for that reason, was not received with any favor by that majority, it is evident that Alexander McDougal acted in behalf of the minority of that bod\' -- of those of its members who had been selected from the revolutionary faction of the Tradesmen, Mechanics, and Workingmen of the City -- and it is evident, also, that the purpose of that minority was to secure to "the Committee of Mechanics," which, notwithstanding its formal acquiescence in the appointment of the Committee of Correspondence, continued to assume authority to represent the unfranchised portion of the people, in all which related to their political action, a right to concur in or to reject any nomination of Delegates to the proposed Congress, which the Committee of Correspondence should determine to make.