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.

-The Resolution of July 2, 1770, separating the Colonies from the Mother Counti'y, was not the earliest declaration of Independence, in the Colonies, by any means. The correspondence of Jolin Adams is well filled with evidence of his correct judgment of the real character of the earlier enactments of the Continental Congress ; but the Resolution which was introduced into that Congress, early in May, 177r., and adopted on the tenth of that month, and the Preamble to that Resolution, which was adopted on the fifteenth, recomnieiuling the adoi)tiun of new forms of Government, in the several Colonies, was, assuredly, nothing else than a Resolution of Independence, thinly disguised by the prefix of another niuue.

the Provincial Congress of New York, at least long enough to enable the Eoyal Commissioners for efl'ecting a reconciliation with the Colonies, who were then approaching New York, to exhibit their powers and their inclinations, in that better desired measure. How successfully the scheme was carried out, in the latter body, will be seen, hereafter.