On the appointed day, [March 1, 1775] the Assembly, in Committee of the Whole House, Colonel Benjamin Seaman, of Richmond-county, occupying the Cliair, commenced, the consideration of the State of the Colony's Grievances, which had been reported by the Special Committee which had prepared it ; ' and after having spent the entire day thereon, as well as the whole of the following day'^ and the greater portion of the succeeding day,' also, in Committee of the Whole House, the latter day's session was closed by the adoption of the Report, by the Assembly, with a single Amendment, which was submitted by Colonel Philip Schuyler, and supi)orted by nine of the minority, and five of the majority -- the only Amendment which was submitted by any one -- a marked feature of the proceedings having been that the amended State of the Grievances of this Colony was adopted by the House, without a division.*

^ Jnnriinl of the Home, "Die Mercurij, lit h.)., A.M., tlie latMarch,

- Journal of the Ilonse. "DieJovis, 10 ho., A.M., the 2d March, 1775." ^ Juuiwil of the Hrwite, "Die Veneris, 10 ho., A.M., the 3d March, " 1773."

* With that lack of modesty and tnithfiiliies,-< whicli characterized all, concerning hid own family, which John C. Ilaniiltou wrote, that gentleman (llUtonj of the llepMk, \., .SI, iji i has undertaken to ;;lorify Colonel Schnyler, his grandfather, by faUifyini; the record, concerning this StaU of tiri*frourf».

In the Committee which had been appointed for the preparation of the Suie, in which every member brought forward whatever he regarded as a Grievance, and not in the body of the Assenibly, aa is meanly insinu- I ated. Colonel Schnyler introduced the .\ct of 4th George III., Chapter XV., a.s such a Grievance, which was approved and accepted by the Committee, with only two dissenting votes, notwithstanihng the overwhelming majority, in that Committee, who was opposed to Colonel Schuyler.