Penn, in May, 1774 -- was not even mentioned -- even Westchestercounty indicated that he was not a favorite, beyond a known limit; and its Deputation in the Provincial Congress did not jjander to his inordinate ambition. The canviiss was, indeed, confined to two candidates, John Morin Scott, of the Citj' of New York, one of that celebrated "triumvirate" of the earlier periods of the Revolution and a lawyer of the highest standing, and " General " ^ Nathaniel Woodhull, of Suffolk, a veteran of the French and Indian War, and, at the time now under notice, President of the Provincial

1 Journal of the Provincial Congrest, " Friday morning, 9 ho , June 7, "1770."

2 Bolton said Lewis Morris was "a Brigadier-general in tbe Conti- *' neiitJil Army;'' and in his arrangement of the words, if they mean anything, that he held that Office before he was sent to the Continental Coiigress of 1775, {Histori/ nj Wcflchesler couiiti/ , original edition, ii., 312 ; (lie Slime, second edition, ii., 428 ; ) but we find no competent evidence of the truth uf the former statement ; and evidence is not necessary to show the entire untnith of the latter.

5 Nathaniel Woodhull appeal's to have been a Colonel of the Suffolk Militia, who was "reconunended or nominated to our Deputies in Pro- "viucial Congress for a Brigadier-general," by the Committees of the western Tow ns in Suffolk, in a meeting held at Smithtown, on the seventh of .Sei)tember, 1775, {Hiytorical Manuscripts^ etc.: MUituri/ lietnnis, xxvi., 216 ;) but a very careful examination of the JonrimU of the Provinci^d Conijre^s and of its Committee of Safety^ from that date until the earliest mention of him as a " Brigadier general " which we have seen, has failed to produce the slightest evidence of his election to that or any other military authority, beyond his Colonelcy.