Whatever may have been the form and character of the document, it is evident, however, that such an Ordinance was really adopted and promulgated, and that, agreeably to its provisions, on the seventh of November, a meeting was held at the White Plains, for the election of Delegates from the County of Westchester, to the coming Congress.^ It is not stated in what manner nor by whom the election was made ; but it is stated that Colonel Lewis
1 In tliu JfHtnml of the Provincial Congrem, of the sixtecutli of October, it is said the Report was nuido "on tlie oiglitli of July \ast ;" in the Journal of that body, of tlie eighteenth of October, it is said the Report was made ** on the eiglith of Jmw Uist ; " and in a memorandum appended to the Jminml of that body, of tiie nineteentli of October, stating that the Report was "wante€," it is said, also, that it was "of the 8th
June last.'' In the Jmirnal of tke Proetnciat f^ontjrf'ns, of neither of those days, liowever, does there appear the slightest mention of any such Repoi't or of the subject of it.
- MinuU's of Proet'cdings during the rcceJW of Oie Provincial Congress, by their Atljmtrninent on the fourth of November, 1775.
^The following document, copied from the original manuscript, (Htslorical Manuscripts, etc. : Credentials of delegates, xxiv., 24, G7,) illustrates this subject :
"To THE HONOIl.iBLE THE PKOVINCUL CoNGRE!!S OF THE CoLONY OF
"New York.