History of Westchester County, New York, Vol. I
On the seventh of November, James Duane, who had already distinguished himself, in connection with John Jay and Joseph Galloway, as everything else than an honest promoter of anything which was revolutionary in its tendencies, pandered to the revolutionary spirit which pervaded the revolutionary portion of the unfranchised inhabitants of the Citj', through whose influence he had once been elevated to a seat iu the Congress and through whose continued influence, only, a similar favor might be secured, in the near future -- that James Duane submitted a Resolution to the Committee of Correspondence, in the City of New York, for the election, by the Freeholders and the Freemen of the City, of eight persons in each Ward, for the purpose " of observing the con- " duct of all Persons touching the Association " [of \oh- Importation, and Non-Exportation, and Xon- Consumption'] "entered into, by the Congress," against Great Britain and her Colonies, and for the purpose, also, of publishing the names of all those whom that Com-
Ihe same to Governor Tryon, "New York, Dec. 7, 1774;" Governor fitije to </ic s<ini«, " Boston, December 15, 1774;" Joseph Reed to Josiah QuiHcy, Junior, " I'hil.voelpiih, November 6, 1774 ; " Proceedings of a Meeting of IWeholders of Middlesex-county, Xnr Jersey, " accortliug to a "Notice," .Fauuary 3, 1775, reprinted in Force's .Imericaii Archives, Fourth Series, i., 1083 ; Proceedings of Toiru of liamstable, Massachusetts, in Town-Meeting, January 4, 1775, reprinted in the same work, i., 1092 ; Letter from Georgia to a Oentleinun in Xetr York, dated February 18, 1775 ; reprinted in the same, i., llOO ; Proceedings of the General (Xmmitlee, [establishing non-intercourse with Cieorgia] " Ciiablestuwn, "South C.\eolin.v, February 8, 1775 ;" buchess-couidy [New York] .4«iocin(ioH, January 18, 1776 ; Letter to James liivington, dated " Flush- "iNii, IN Queen's County, Long-Islanp, Jan. 14, " published \a Rirington't Xew York Gazetteer, No. 92, New-York, Thursday, January 19, 1775 ; Letter lo the same, AaXviX, "Newtown on Long Isi.ANn, Jan. 12, "1775," published in the same issue of that paper ; Letter to the same fmtii Cl»trr-cnunty.