The struggle between the two factions, within the Committee, was continued to an Adjourned Meeting of that body, on the evening of the twenty-ninth of June, when Alexander Mc- Dougal moved " that this Committee proceed, im- " mediately, to nominate five Deputies for the City " and County of New York, to represent them in a " Convention of this Colony, 2 or in the general Congress, to be held at Philadelphia, on the first of " September next, if the other Counties of this Col- " ony approve of them as Deputies for the Colony ; " and that their names be sent to the Committee of ''Mechanics, for their concurrence ; to be proposed on " Tuesday next, to the Freeholders and Freemen of " this City and County, for their approbation." Without having reached a vote on that Resolution, however, the Committee adjourned to the following Monday evening, the fourth of July; 3 at which time, after another severe struggle, the Resolution was re-

1 Minutes of the Committee, "New-York, June 27, 1774."

It has been said, (de Lancey's Notes to Jones's History of New York during the Revolutionary War, i., 419,) that "the Committee met to con- "sider" that Resolution; but that would indicate that the Resolution was submitted to the previous Meeting, which is contradicted by the Minutes. It is clear, as we understand the record, that Alexander McDougal offered it, for consideration, only at the Meeting on the twentyseventh of June.

2 This portion of the Resolution evidently looked for the establishment of a Provincial Congress or Convention, in which should be vested supreme and arbitrary power, without limitation, over the persons and properties and actions and thoughts and convictions of every one within the Colony ; overthrowing all Government ; cancelling all Rights of Persons and Properties ; and ' establishing, in their stead, an active scourging Despotism.