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. New York : 1847, 123 ; his Field-Book of the Revolution, New York : 1851, ii., 486 ; Ridpath's History of the United States, New York : I860, 296 ; A. H. Stephens's History of the United States, New York : 1874 166, 167 ; Holmes's History of the United States, New York : 1871 105* and several others, assigned the proposition for a Congress to Virginia.' Mercy Warren's History of the American Revolution, Boston: 1805 i." 135 ; Lendrum's History of the American Revolution, Exeter: 1836, i. 63 ■ De ttochelle's Alois Unis d'Amt'rique, Paris : 1845, 173; Loading's History of the United States, New York : 1857, 227 ; and the series of email Histories of the United States, by the same author, without alluding to what was done in New York, preferred to regard what was done by the House of Representatives of Massachusetts, on the seventeenth of June as the origin of the Congress. Frothingham's Rise of the Republic, 322* 323, ostentatiously presented what was done in Massachusetts and "the ' 'other New England Colonies," and then said with questionable integrity as he was acquainted with the facts, « the sentiment and determination "of the patriots south of New England were represented in thepro- « ceedings of the Virginia meeting, " which he de 8 cribed,at considerable length, withbut making the slightest allusion to the earlier proceedings of Pennsylvania and New York, where the Congress certainly originated Gordon's History of the American Revolution, London: 1788, i, 362 correctly assigned the origination of the Congress to the Comm'ittee of Cor"