1 A paper, dated "Boston August 29, 1774," responsive to "a report "industriously propagated in New York"-- but without any indication by whom written or where published -- which was printed in Force's American Archives, Fourth Series, i., 743, 744.

See, also, a Letter from William Cooper -- the well-known Town-Clerk of Boston -- to a Gentleman in New York, dated " Boston : September 12, "1774," written in response to inquiries, and with the knowledge of "some of the Committee appointed to receive donations."-

a Bancroft's History of the United States, original edition, vii., 48 ; the same, centenary edition, iv., 332.

On the thirty-first of May, 1774, John Scollay wrote, from Boston, to Arthur Lee, in London, " Thousands that depend on their daily labour "for Bupport, must be reduced to the greatest degree of distress and "want. However, they will suffer in a good Cause, and that righteous ■" Being who takes care of the Ravens who cry unto Him, will provide "for them and theirs."

that such principles and such purposes as were thus presented to the several Colonies, found little favor, anywhere, except among those of the assumed leaders of the unfranchised inhabitants of the City of New York, who favored revolutionary measures, and who had not been included in the recently appointed Committee of Correspondence, the Committee of Fifty-one, in that City ? 3

On Tuesday evening, the seventeenth of May, Paul Revere, bearing letters from the Committee of Correspondence, in Boston, in which were inclosed copies of the Vote of that Town, to which reference has been made, arrived in the City of New York 4 -- there was, also, in his saddlebags, a very interesting letter from one of the master spirits in that Town, to his correspondent in New York, reciting more of the motives of the Massachusetts-men, in their construction of the Resolutions of the Town-meeting in Boston, than was told elsewhere ; 3 but there is no evidence that Revere brought anything whatever from the Caucus which had been convened in Faneuil Hall, on the preceding Wednesday. 6 In accordance with his instructions, Revere immediately proceeded to Philadelphia, to deliver the letters which had been addressed to the Committee of Correspondence in that City ; 7 and