Committee -- both re-printed in Force's American Archives, Fourth Series, i., 340-342.)

1 Tile Committee of Correspondence of Philadelphia to the Committee of Correspondence to Boston, "Philadelphia, May 21st, 1774," copies of which " were transmitted to New- York and most of the Southern Colo- "nies."

2 Minutes of the Committee, " New-York, Monday, May 2Zd, 1774."

3 Minutes of the Committee, " New-York, May 30, 1774."

4 Minutes of 'IheCommittee, " New-York, Monday, May 23d, 1774." Sec. also Holt's New- York Journal, No. 1G38,New-York, Thursday, May

26, 1774, in which appears the following : " Since the Meeting at the Cofhad proposed the Caucus which had been assembled at Sam. Francis's had been established ; the unfranchised masses and those who had assumed to be their leaders had been generally hoodwinked ; and even the watchful " Sons of Liberty," with here and there an exception, were apparently contented.

At the Bame meeting of the Committee, the letters from the Committees of Correspondence in Boston and Philadelphia, to which reference has been made, were laid before it. The letter from Philadelphia being only a reflex of what had been written to that Committee by those who had subsequently been confirmed as members of this, it received no official attention, at that time ; but those from Boston, which included the Vote of the Town of which mention has been made, were referred to a Sub-committee, composed of Alexander McDougal, Isaac Low, James Duane, and John Jay, with instructions to consider the subject to which those letters were devoted ; to prepare a draft of an answer thereto ; and to report the same, to the Committee, at eight o'clock on the same evening, to which hour the Committee then adjourned. 5