3 " It was some Days before a sufficient numtier of Members got to Town to make u House, and there nre still twelve of their number absent, " which has occasiuued the House to put off tlie farther consideration of " their IniiH^i taut Husiness to the 7th of next Mouth, at w hich Time **they have ordered all their Members to attend." -- (LieuttMumt-gurerttor tWifen li> Hie Riih,/ Diirliiiuiilh, " Xew York, 21 .January, 177.)." )

In the Lieutenant-governor's Ues(>at<'h to the Eiirl of Dartmouth, dated on the first of February, 1775, it is stated that the Call of the House referred to was made on a Motion offered by the minority of the House, for what was supposed would be beneficial to its purposes ; and when it is remembered that the majority already pos»i'SS«'d the cimtrol of whatever was brought forward, it will be seen that that majority not only had no occasion to make such a Call, but. also, that, when it consented that such a '* Call " should be made, it had entire confidence in its continued supremacy, even when the entire strength of each of the two factions should have been brought into the House, an instance of its temerity which, very nearly, became disastrous to it.

the introduction of a Resolution, submitted by Colonel Abraham Ten Rroeck, of the Manor of Rensselaerwyck, to "take into consideration the Proceed- " ings of the Continental Congress, held in the City " of Philadelphia, in the Months of September and " October last."