Bolton, {nMory nf Weslchtster-counly, original edition, ii., 359 ; the same, second edition, ii., 5G4,)said of the imaginary journey of the Deputies, from the City of New York to the Wliite Plains, between the adjournment of the Congress and the day on which it was to bo re-asseniblcd, " The journey between New York and the Plains was per- " formed by tlie members on horseback, Pierre van Cortliindt, the Presi- " dent, riding at tlioir head. As cxiires.ses overtook tlu in from General " Wasliington, the House was called to order, on horseback, and several " Resolutions ])assed."

As has been already stated, there was not the slightest attempt made to keep up the organization ol the Congress, after its hurried and informal dissolution, on that eventful Sunday ; that there was, therefore, no such funereal procession as Mr. liolton has described, nor any such olUcial acts, on horseback or on foot, as he has imagined ; and that there was no such meeting of the Provincial Congress, at the Wliite Plains, on Tuesday, tlie second of July, ashe has left his readers to suppose.

As Jlr. Bolton has not named any aiithority for Jiisstiitement, altliough he was not the tirst to print it, he must be regarded as autliorially responsible for it ; and, therefore, it may be proper to say, further, that PieiTe Van Cortlandt was not the President of the Congress, nor had he been such, at any time. General AVoodhull having been elected its President, and John Haring, of Orange-county, occupied the Chair, as President j)io tern., on the last day of its session. In the same connection, it may be said that, although Colonel Pierre Van Cortlandt was elected as one of the Deputies from Westchester-connty to the third Provincial Congress, that under notice, he never occupied a scat in it, even for a single day.