In harmony, also, with that evident connection of James Duane with the Colonial Government, -- in support, also, of the suspicion that particular lines of action, in the interest of the Crown, to be taken in the Congress, were considered and determined on, in advance of the meeting of the Congress, by that particular Delegate and the venerable Lieutenant-governor of the Colony -- reference need be

xxi., 10, 95 ; xxii., 16 ; xxxiii., 19, 41 ; xxvii., 17 ; and the many papers, concerning Duanesburg, of which he was a principal Proprietor.

1 He was the Clerk of the Colonial Court of Chancery ; he was, often, the retained Counsel of the Colonial Government (Opinions of Counsel in the Matter of (htnningham, Appellant, against Fors*y, and in the Matter of Charges against Judge Wells ;) he was the Counsel of the Lieutenant, governor, in the celebrated Suit, in Chancery, concerning a division of the Fees of his office, with the Earl of Dunmore, (Letters, etc., in the Matter of the Attorney-general pro Bege against Colden ;) and the tone and the terms of the letters which passed between them, as they have been preserved in "the Colden Papers, 1 * in the Library of the New York His. torical Society, leave no room for doubt on the subject.

2 " By my Letter of the 7th of September your Lordship would find I "entertained Hopes that the People of this Province would adopt modderate Measures and avoid giving any new offence to the Parliament. I "know such were the sentiments of Fanners and Country People in "general who make a great Majority of the Inhabitants. I had a con- " fidential conference with one of the Delegates sent from this city to the " Congress now met at Philadelphia who I thought had as much influ- '* ence as any from this place, and he gave me assurances of ti is disposition " being similar." -- (Lieutenant-governor Colden to the Earl of Dartmouth, No. 7., " New Tokk 5th October 1774.")