The Provincial Convention duly assembled at the Exchange, in the City of Xew York, on the twentieth of April, 1775, the Counties of New York, Albany, Ulster, Orange, Westchester, Duchess, Kings, Suffolk, and two Towns in (Queens, being, more or less, represented by Delegates -- of the Delegation which had

" This very important paper was published in Itiritiglon' s Xeic-YorTc ClazMecy, No. 105, XEw-Yovk, Thursday, April 20, 1775, and, in Gaine's yeiv-York (lazelle : and the W\Mij Memirij, No. 1227, Xew-York, Monday.April 17th, 1775.

The entire paper, including the signatures, as thev appear in the text, was very carefully copied from the original publication, in Jiivhigtons XeK-Yorl: Gazetteer, already referred to.

Those who are familiar with the history of Westchester-county will recognize, among the signers to th\s Protest, members of a great number ' of the leading families of that ancient County.

THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION, 1774-1783.

been elected by the Meeting at the White Plains, all were present, except Colonel James Holmes and Jonathan Piatt.

After spending nearly two days in the adjustment of its, sometimes, very questionable membership,^ Isaac Low and Jolin Haring, who had been members of the preceding Congress, having declined re-elections, the Convention adopted a Eesolution re-electing Philip Livingston, James Duane, John Jay, and John Alsop, all of the City of New York ; Simon Boerum, of Kings-county; William Floyd, of Suffolk ; and Henry Wisner, of Orange-county ; all of whom had been Members of that Congress ; and added to them. Colonel Philip Schuyler, of Albany-county ; George Clinton, of Ulster-county ; Colonel Lewis Morris, of Westchester-county ; Robert R. Livingston, Junior, of Duchess county ; and Francis Lewis, of the City of New York ; as Delegates from the Colony of New York to the second Congress of the Continent ; and, on Saturday, the twenty-second of April, after the Credentials of the Delegates-elect had been signed by every member of the Convention,' that body having been called for the single purpose of electing Delegates to the Congress, it was adjourned, sine die?