On the following day, [February 17], Colonel Nathaniel Woodhull, of Suffolk-county, also a prominent member of the minority, continued the factional strife, by offering a Resolution of Thanks to those gentlemen who had represented this Colony in the recent Congress, " for their faithful and judicious dis- " charge of the trust reposed in them, by the good " people of this Colony ; " and, of course, " debates " arose upon the said Motion ; " after which, by a vote of nine, in the affirmative, against fifteen, in the negative, it was rejected -- Judge Thomas being among the former, and Colonel Philipse and Isaac Wilkins being among the latter. 6

On the twenty-first of February, Peter R. Livingston, of the Manor of Livingston, continued the struggle of the minority, by offering a Resolution giving " the Thanks of this House to the Merchants " and Inhabitants of this City and Colony, for their " repeated, disinterested, publick-spirited, and patri- " otic Conduct, in declining the Importation or Re- " ceiving of Goods from Great Britain, and for their " firm Adherence to the Association entered into and " recommended by the Grand Continental Congress, " held at Philadelphia, in the Months of September " and October last, and that Mr. Speaker signify the " same to the President of the Chamber of Commerce " in this City, at their next Meeting, and order a copy " of the same to be published in the public Prints." Like the other Resolutions of the series, which had preceded it, this peculiarly inappropriate Resolution, before such a deliberative body, after it had been amply discussed, was promptly rejected by a vote of ten, in the affirmative, among whom were Judge Thomas and Pierre Van Cortlandt, against fifteen,