It has suited the purposes of some to bring forward the doings of eighty-nine members of the dissolved House of BurgeBses of Virginia, assembled at the Raleigh Tavern, at Williamsburg, on the twenty-seventh of May, as a contestant for the honors of New York, in this matter; but that Meeting was held four days after the proposition had been made in New York ; and what it did was only to " recommend to the Com- " mittee of Correspondence that they communicate with the several Cor- " responding Committees, on the expediency of appointing Deputies from "the several Colonies of British Amerii-a, to meet in a General Con- " gross," etc , which was done on the following day, in which, however, nothing else was done than to solicit, from each Committee, its " senti- "ments on the subject." (Proceeding* of the Meeting, reprinted in the Boston Gazette of June 13, 1774, quoted by Frothingham, in his Rise of the Republic, 333.)

The reliability of what is known as "history" may be seen in what has been published concerning this first proposition to convene a Congress of the Colonies. Frothingham, (Rise of the Republic, 322,) is the only oue who has alluded to the really original, but impracticable, proposition by the Town of Providence. Without making the slightest allusion to what was done in New York, Burke's Annual Register for 1775, 6; History of the War in America, Dublin : 1779, i., 21 ; Andrews's History of the War with America, t hondon : 1785, i., 135; Soule's Histoire des Troubles deV Amerique Anglaise, Paris: 1787, i., 48; Chez et Lebrun's HUtoire politique et philosophique de'la Revolution, Paris: an 9, 109- Stednian's History of the American War, London : 1794, i., 94, 95 ; Adolphus's History of England, London : 1805, ii., 124; " Paul Allen's" History of the American Revolution, Baltimore: 1822, i.,184; Pitkin's History of the United States, New Haven: 1828, i., 271, 272; Wilson's History of the American Revolution, Baltimore : 1834, 100 ; Grahame's History of the United States, London : 1836, iv., 349; Lossing's Seventeen hundred and seventy-six.