circumvent and secure the control of the entire Colony, under a mask of *' patriotism," as it had already circumvented and secured the control, in political affairs, of the County of New York.

l Minvtee of the Committee, "New-York, May 30, 1774;" Lieutenantgovernor Golden to Governor Ti-yon, "New York, June 2, 1774."

^Minutes of the Committee, Special Meeting, "New-York, May 31, "1774;" Lieutenant-governor Golden to Governor Tryon, "New-York, "June 2, 1774."

3 Memorandum, appended to the Minutes of the Committee, "New- "York, May 31, 1774."

emphatic testimony to the accuracy of what has been stated, concerning the conservatism of the farmers in Westchester-county, as lately as in the Spring and early Summer of 1774. 4

While the Committee of Correspondence, in New York, was thus engaged in an effort to extend its influence and its authority beyond the limits of its original jurisdiction, the Committee of Correspondence and the leaders of the revolutionary populace, in Boston, received and considered its letter responding to the Vote of that Town and to the letters which had accompanied it, to New York ; and, as might have been reasonably expected, where the difference, on such a subject, was as radical in its character and as wide in its extent as it was in that instance, there appeared to be very little prospect of an agreement, or even of a compromise. Indeed, the Massachusettsmen did not appear to pay the slightest attention to the proposition which those of New York had made, to call a Congress of Deputies from all the Colonies, for the consideration of all the grievances, real or imaginary, of which all the Colonies were, then, respectively complaining, preferring, instead, and firmly insisting on, their own proposition to remove the particular case of Boston's recognized contumacy and its consequences from all other matters of disagreement with the Home Government, and to enforce a relief of that Town from the penalty inflicted on it, because of its recognized lawlessness, by establishing a Non-Importation and Non -Exportation Association, throughout the entire Continent, for that especial purpose, and for no other purpose whatever.