February 13, 1775, published in Holt's Neir-York Journal, No. 1676, New -York, Thursday, February 16, 1775 ; and those of the Committee fur Observation fur the Township of Woodbridge, New Jersey, " WooDBRincE, February 20, 1775," published in Force's American /IrcAi'ie*, Fourth Series, i., r249, each providing for ■" boycotting " the Staten Islaudeis.

Liexttenant-govenior Colden to the Eurl of bartnutiith, *' New York. "2 Nov. 1774 ; " the tame to the tame, " New York, December 7, 1774 ; "

some of them by formal Votes, in legal Town-meetings, and all of them, in practise, also declared their disapproval of the revolutionary measures adopted by the Congress and recommended by it, to be enforced in the several Colonies.

While the more conservative portions of the Colonists, in opposition to the Home Government, were earnestly laboring to maintain themselves in the leadershij) of the political elements of the Colony, and, at the same time, to secure a redress of the grievances to which the Colony had been subjected and to effect an honorable reconciliation between the Colonies and the Mother Country, the revolutionary portion of the same body of Colonists, strengthened by the accession to their number, of those, recently of the opposite portion, who were endeavoring to pose, for office-sake, both as aristocrats aud as democrats, as might best suit successive audiences, nominally intent on the accomplishment of the same ends, was really employed in zealously promoting measures which were better adapted to the defeat of itself, in whatever it should really seek to accomplish, in the interests of peace.