On the seventh of Mare'li, James De Lancey, and Benjamin Kissam, of New York City, and George Clinton, of Ulster-county, were appointed a Committee to prepare the series of Resolutions required as a basis for the Petition to the King, which had been ordered by the House, on the thirty-first of January preceding ;' and, on the following day, Benjamin Kissam reported, from that Committee, a series of Resolutions, agreeably to that Order. The Assembly promptly went into a Committee of the Whole House, with Colonel Benjamin Seaman, of Richmond-county,

atil-ijoi'ernor Coldeii to the Eiiil of harlmoulh, " New York, 1st March, " 1775,")

1 Bancroft's Iliston/ of th" Uniktl St(ttfin^ original edition, vii., I:i0, 140; the same, centenary edition, iv., 401, 402.

2 In a letter written by Alexander McDoiigal, the well-known popular leader, addressed to Jcsiah Quincy, Junior, then in London, and dated " New-Yohk. April 6, 1775," the student of the history of the Revolution, in New Y'ork, may find much, relating to the opinions of the revolutionary elenu'ntsin tliat Colony, concerning this State, as well iis cuiioe ning other kindred subjects.

»Joiirw(l of the lions,; "Die Martis, 10 ho., A.Jl., the 7th March, " 1776."

in the Chair ; and proceeded to consider the Report which had thus been presented; and, after having made some amendments in the proposed Resolutions,* the Chairman reported the result of the Committee's deliberations to the House; and, after some discussion, the House agreed with the Committee, in its Report and Resolutions.^