Accordingly, on the day after the meeting of the Caucus [Tuesday, May 17] they published a Card, addressed "To the Public," in which "the Inhabitants " of this City and County " were " requested to attend " at the Coffee-house, on Thursday, the 19th instant, "at 1 o'clock, to approve of the Committee nominated " as aforesaid, or to appoint such other persons a«, in "their discretion and wisdom, they may seem meet." '

Notwithstanding the meeting at the Coffee-house was called at one o'clock, an hour when every Mechanic and Laborer would probably be employed in his daily labor, it is said that "a great concourse of " the Inhabitants " assembled at that place, 2 at the appointed time, [Thursday, May 19, 1774, at one o'clock;] and we are also told that the assemblage was addressed by Isaac Low, who was in the Chair ; that some discussion arose, which resulted in the addition of Francis Lewis to the proposed Committee, increasing the

1 Advertisement " To the Public," calling the Meeting at the Coffeehouse, dated "New- York, Tuesday, May 17, 1774," copied into the Minutes of the Committee of Correspondence.

See, also, the same Advertisement and an editorial note thereon, in Holt's New-York Journal, No 1637, New-York, Thursday, May 19, 1774 ; and Rivington's New-York Gazetteer, No. 57, New-York, ThurBday, May 19, 1774 ; Gaine's New York Gazette and Merrury, No. 1178, Xew- York, Monday, May 23, 1774; Lieutenant-governor Golden to Governor Tryon, " Sprinq-Hill, 31st May, 1774 ; " the same to the Earl of Dartmouth, "New-York 1st June 1774;" Leake's Memoir of General John Lamb, 87 ; Dawson's Park and its Vicinity, 33 ; etc.