One of the Delegates from the " Province of New York, (wilh whom I sat in Congress in 1774) repre- " senting a considerable District in that Province, was chosen by himself " and his clerk only, and that clerk certified to the Congress that he was "unanimously appointed I " In a foot-note to this portion of that testimony, Galloway added : " The people of Kings County so much disapproved of the sending any Members to the Congress, that, although " due notice was given of the time and place of Election, only two of "them met: Mr. Simon Boerum appointed his friend Clork, and the "Clerk appointed Mr. Boerum a Delegate in Congress, who was the only " Representative for that large County."-- (Examination, 16 June, 1779-- The Examination of Joseph Galloway, Etq., before the Haute of Cjmmons London: 1779, 10, 11.)

See, also, Galloway's Letters to a Nobleman, Second Edition, London : 1779, 21.

proposed Congress, no matter what, in the Congress or elsewhere, the doings of those who composed that Delegation may have been, were gentlemen of the highest social standing ; that some of them were gentlemen of the highest intellectual powers ; and that all possessed what, at that time, either consistently or inconsistently, honestly or dishonestly, they publicly assumed to have been the highest regard for the welfare of the Colony and of the Continent. It appears, however, notwithstanding that apparently general movement, in favor of the proposed Congress, among the farmers of Westchester-county, or, at least, a general acquiescence therein, that there was a very important portion of them, individually respectable and respectable in numbers, who had not been thus influenced; who, therefore, had not joined in the reported election of Delegates to the Convention ; and who were without any sympathy with those who were promoting the call for a Congress of the Continent, even for consultation and mutual advice.