The Resolution and letter which were thus reported to the Provincial Congress, were taken up, for consideration, on the twenty-ninth of May; and, after some amendments had been made therein, they were " approved, agreed to, and resolved ; " and five hundred copies were ordered to be j)rinted ; and as many copies of the letter as should be necessary were ordered to be signed by the President and delivered to the members of the Congress, "to be by them " directed." -

As the County of Westchester had already been favored with the appointment of a County-committee, or what purported to have been such a Committee,'' it is probable that it was not considered necessary, in that instance, to interfere with that former appoint-

' Tlie uutlioi-ity which apppare to have bct-n vestwl in iiienilwrs of tlie Pri>Tiiicial Ouigrc^, to apitoint local CoiiiniitttM^s when* the inhabitants lia<l not done si>, pri<l':ilil.v origiuatoil in that I'ougrcss, in an earlier secrt't nuM'ting of that body ; but no record of any sui-li lu'tion ia seen on itH imblishctl Jimnuil -- like the i^t rrt Jimniiiln of llir ( "ii/im ii/nl ('«m- »/rt\M, tlK>se of the Provincial Congrei« of New Vtirk, conid they also bo published, would umloubtedly throw different tints of light and color on many a romance, calle<l " history."

-Jotinml o/Ihe /Vociiiri-iJ r.m.jrrx^, " Die J.uuf 4 h.i., P.M., >Iay 'ZV^, • ' 177.5."

■' See pages 258, 259, ante.

ment ; and there is very little evidence, as far as wc have been able to fiiul any, which indicates that the several Towns throughout the County paid any attention to the recommendation of the Congress, lor the ap[)ointinent of Town-committees; ' and there is no evidence whatever, that any attempt was made, in any of those Towns, to obtain the signatures of the body of the iuhabitanls of the County, to the Genmd A-ssociafiun which had been enacted by the Continental Congress of 1774, nor to any other such Association-^ -- the Provincial Congress had done no more than, nominally, to " recomnientr' to the inhabitants to sign the AsKuiiatiun ; ^ it not only did not authorize the employment of force in order to obtain signatures thereto, but it expressly ilisclaimed, in advance, the entertainment of any such idea ; ' the Congress itself, by a formal vote, had i)Ostponed a formal api)roval of that General Assoriatiim as well as all of the other tloings of the Continental Congress, who had enacted it ; " and, for these reasons, as well as for others with which the reader is already familiar, the conservative yeomanry of Westchestercounty was not in a hurry to either recognize or sign it.