On Friday, the twenty-sixth of IMay, the Provincial Congress adopted, unanimously, a Resolution, offered by Gilbert Living.ston of Duchesscounty and seconded by John De Lancey of New York City, providing for the appointment of a Committee of one from each County, "to draw "up and report a proper Resolve of this Con- "gress, recommending to the different Counties "in this Colony, to form themselves into County "Committees, and also into Sub-committees for their " respective Townships and Districts, and recoinmend- "ing the signing of the General Asuonation ; and also " to prepare and report to this Congress a draft of a " letter to be sent to the Committees and other per- " sons in the several Counties, for the above purposes, " and with copies of such Resolution." In that Committee of one from each County, Major Philip Van Cortlandt represented Westchester-county ; and, on the following day, {May 27, 1775] it made a Report, in due form.'

The Resolution which was thus reported, was in these words: "Resolved: That it be recommended, " and it is hereby accordingly recommended, to all the " Counties in this Colony, (who have not already done "it,) to appoint County Committees, and also Suh- " committees for their respective Townships, Pre- " cincts, and Districts, without delay, in order to carry " into execution the Resolutions of the Continental " and this Provincial Congress.

" And that it is also recommended to every Inhabitant ''of this Colony, who has hitherto neglected to sub- " scribe the General Ansociafion, to do it with all con- "venient speed. And for these purposes that the " Committees in the respective Counties in which " Committees have been formed, do tender the said " Ansociafion to every Inhabitant within the several " Districts in each County.