3 Journal of the House, "DioJovis, 10 ho., A.M., the 26th January, " 1775 ; " Lieulenaut-govemor Colden to General Gage, " New York 29th " Jany 1775 ; " the same to the Earl of Dartmouth, " New York 1st Feby " 1775 ; " the same to Governor Tnjon, " New York, 1st Feby, 1775 ; " the " same to Admiral Graves, "New York 20th Feb. 1775."

4 The venerable Lieutenant-governor of the Province was evidently in excellent spirits, from that result, when he wrote the Despatches to General G»ge and the Earl of Dartmouth, which were referred to in the last preceding Note.

& " When the question to adopt the Measures recommended by the Con- " gress was negatived by a Majority of one only, in this Assembly of " twenty-six Individuals, the Ministers were in high spirits ; and these '■Individuals were then represented as 'all America.' " -- (Governor Johnstone's Speech in the House of Commons, May 15, 1775 -- Alnion'sParWamentary Register, i., 473.)

WESTCHESTER. COUNTY.

that rejection of Colonel Ten Broeck's Resolution was only the prelude, that Vote of the Assembly has supplied a theme on which those who have seemed to play the part of historians of that portion of America's history, have based much of what they have said, unduly commendatory of Massachusetts and Virginia and quite as unduly denunciatory of everything which pertained to New York, unless of some of the men of New York, of that early period, whose characters, for fidelity to the truth and uprightness in the discharge of public duties, were no better than their own. '