The Committee of Correspondence in New York having, meanwhile, received assurances of their approval of its proposition to invite a meeting of Deputies from the several Colonies, in a Continental Congress, from the Committee of Correspondence of Connecticut 4 and from that in Philadelphia 5 -- with the knowledge, also, that the "Standing Committee of "Correspondence," which the General Assembly of the Colony of New York had appointed, on the twentieth of January, 1774, had also approved and concurred in that proposition, 6 and, undoubtedly, although informally,' with information of the action of the Town of Boston and of that of the House of Representatives of Massachusetts, on the same subject, -- on the twenty-seventh of June, it entertained and " debated "

8 Proceedings of the Adjourned Town-Meeting, June 17, 1774, reprinted in Force's American Archives, Fourth Series, i., 423.

* The Committee of Correspondence for Connecticut to the Committee in New York, "Hartford, June 4, 1774," enclosing a letter, to the same effect, which had been sent by the Committee in Hartford to the Committee in Boston, on the preceding day.

5 Proceedings of a Meeting of the Freeholders and Freemen of the City and County of Philadelphia, Saturday, June 18, 1774, enclosed in a letter from the Committee of Correspondence in Philadelphia to the Committee in New York, " Philadelphia, 21st June, 1774."

6 That Committee of the Assembly was composed of John Cruger, Frederick Philipse, Isaac Wilkins, Benjamin Seaman, James Jauncey, James De Lancey, Jacob Walton, Simeon Boerum, John De Noyelles, George Clinton, DaDiel Kissam, Zebulon Williams, and John Kapah'e, the names of ten of whom, including that of Frederick Philipse of Westchester-county, are appended to a letter, addressed to the Committee of Correspondence of Connecticut, dated " New York, June 24, 1774," in which it "agrees with you, that, at this alarming juncture, a general " Congress of Deputies from the several Colonies would be a very expe- "dientand salutary measure," regretting, however, that it was " not "sufficiently empowered to take any steps in relation to so salutary a "measure."