5 That organization was effected at a public Meeting of the Inhabitants who disapproved the ' rcqueNt " of the Committee, which was hel.l at the Widow De ha. Slontagnie's, in Broadway, opposite tlie Fields, on Friday evening, JIarch 3, .John Tlmrber presiding.-- (.-1 Itrondf 'ule, tigard bij John Tlmrber, in the Library of tlie New York Historical Society.)

'■The Committee of Observation called its Meetings by means of handbills posted throughout the City ; and the Meeting at the Widow De La Montagnie's was called in the same manner.

' As nearly as can be ascertained, the Liberty-pole stood in the Fields, now the Park, near the present line of liroadway, opposite the block which is bounded by Murray and Warren-streets.

It occupie<l a small lot of ground which had been bought for that purpose, by those wlio styled themselves " Sons of Litwrty ; " and, ns lately as 1785, Isaac Sears, the assign of one of those who had bought it, many years previously, made a claim on the City, and wa.- paid for his interest therein. -- iiloiiwd of the O.rjDoiituoi of tlir Cily of .V<-ic York for 18.ifi, 433.)

HISTORY OF WESTCHESTER COUNTY.

posed the following question : " Whether a certain "Number of persons shall be appointed and author- ^'ized to meet such Deputies as the Counties may "elect, and join with them for the mle object of appointing out of their body on tbe 20th of April next, "Delegates to the next Congress?" Those who were opposed to the question, the conservative faction and its governmental allies, promptly demanded a Poll of the Voters, giving as reasons for their demand, that the business of the day was to take only the sense of the Freeholders and Freemen ; that none but those of these two classes of persons had a right to vote on the question ; and that it was impossible to discriminate them from those who had not such aright.