2 Because it was so entirely antagonistic to the known principles of the Boston-men with whom the minority of the Committee, in their individual relations, had been previously so entirely in accord, this answer to the letters from Boston, approved by the unanimous vote of the Committee, affords additional evidence of the entire good faith of the great body of the unfranchised inhabitants of the City, in its concurrence in the appointment of the Committee of Fifty-one, and of the acquiescence in that appointment of, at least, those of the previously assumed leaders of those inhabitants who had been admitted to seats in that Committee.

3 Minutes of the Committee, (adjourned Meeting) "New York, May 23, "1774 ;" Holt's New-York Journal, No. 1638, New-York, Thursday, May 26, 1774; Gaine 's New- York Gazette and Mercury, No. 1178, New-York, Monday, May 23 ; No. 1179, New- York, Monday, May 30, and No. 1183, New-York, Monday, June 27, 1774 ; Rivington's New-York Gazetteer, No. 57, New- York Thursday, May 19, and No. 58, New-York, Thursday, May 26, 1774.

WESTCHESTER, COUNTY.

due consideration, io paralyze the industries and the commerce of the entire Continent, only for the particular benefit of one Town -- it preferred to regard the particular grievance of that Town as only one among many grievances, endured by other Towns, as well as by that, and by the entire Continent ; and it wisely made all those grievances a common cause, and proposed to remedy them, as far as a remedy could be found in America, by a concerted movement of all the parties who were suffering from them. It was the first, or among the first, to disregard the peculiar selfishness of the popular leaders in Boston, by whom the grievances of that particular Town had been thrust into an undue prominence, for the relief of which, especially, they insisted, the entire efforts of the entire Continent must be directed j 1 and it was the first to propose and to insist on the convention of a Congress of Deputies from all the Colonies, in which all the grievances which were sustained by each and every of those Colonies could be duly considered, and concerted action be secured from the entire Continent, for the relief of all who were aggrieved. 2 How much, in that well-considered