" were unanimously elected Delegates to represent "this Colony at such Congress, with f\ill power to them or any five of ** them, to meet the Delegates from the other Colonies and to concert " and determine upon such measures as shall be judged most effectual "for the preservation and re establishnieut of .American Kights and " Privileges, and for the restoration of harmony between (ireat Britain "and the Colonies."-- (Joii™«I «/ </i« Cuitniilitni, "Die Sabatti, 11 hora "a. m. April, 22nd, 1775.")

' The JoHriiuJ of this, the first, Provincial Co'ivenlion of the Colony, was " printed in pursuance of a Resolution of the Legislature," in 1842 ; and it has been our authority, in whatever lias been stated, in the text, concerning that body.

See, also, deLanceys' Sutes to Jones's HiMnrij nf Xrir York iluriug the Uemlntiniinrij War, i., 480, 487 ; Pitkin's HUlnrij nf llir l iiittd tValeit, i., 32.'>; Hildreth's Htxlurij < if the I'liiteil States, First Series, iii., 72 ; etc.

Judge Jones, {HUton/ nf Xeic Vwt, i., 38, 39,') strangely supposed the Members to the Congress were elected by the several Counties -- those from the City of New York, at that promiscuous mass Meeting, at the Exchange, of which an account has been already presented. Bancroft, with all the authorities' licfore him. {Hixlnrii of the I'tiile'l Slates, original edition, vi., 283 ; the smue, centenary edition, iv., ^t\3,) made all " the ru- " ral Counties," without exception, "co-operate with the City, " in electing the Deputies, although Richmond, all of Queens except two Towns, Tyron, Cumberland and Charlotte-counties, made no pretension so send Deputies. lie said, also, that all the members of the former Congress, "except the luke-warm Isaac Low, " were re-elected : both Isaac Low and John Haring, both of them members of that Congress, declineil reelections, notwithstanding the Convention desired to return them.