s ProceeiUngs of the Comniillee of Obsentttion for the Citij and Coimtij of Xew York, at an Af\jonrned Meeting, 8th March, 1775.
4 Holt'.' yeK-York .lourual, Xo. 1080, New-York, Thursday, March 16, 1775; Hiciiiijloit's Xtir-Ynrk Guzellcer, No. 100, New-Yohk, Thursday, March 16, 1775;* Gaine's Seir-Yurk Gazette : atid the Weekli/ Jffrciiry, No. 12'23, New-York, Monday, March 20, 1775.
0 l*roceedintjs of the t'oiinitittce of UbM'rrntion for the City itnil County of Xeir-York, " Com.mittee-Chamiieh, 15th March, 1775."
With tlie single exception of de Lancey, in his yotfS to Judge Jones's History of -Veil- York during Ihi- Ametican Rernlution, as far as our acquaintance with them extends, every writer on that subject, ourself included, has supposed and stated that the question of sending Delegates to a proposed Provincial Convention was nnquestionalily determined by the promiscuous Meeting, at the Exchange, without having seen that that vote had been subsequently rcimdiated by the Committee, for cause, and that it had been submitted to tlie Freeholders and Freemen, at the Polls, and definitely determined by them, and oidy by them, at the same time that Delegates VN-ere elected to represent the City and County, in that Convention.
* Holt and Gaine stated the vote to have been eight liundred and tw(>nty-five in favor of the appointment of Deputies, and one hundred and sixty-three in opposition : Kivington stated the vote was nine hundred and twenty-nine, in favor, and one hundred and forty-three in opiwsition.
Tiiey all agree that numy voters declined to vote -- Holt and Gaine said, because their votes were seen to have been unneressary ; Kivington .said "the frien<l8 of the old fire l)clegntei>, (finding that they were not " permitted to vote for them «« Iiekgtiira) almost all declined giving " their voices at all."