On the appointed day, [March 1, 1775] the Assembly, in Committee of the Whole House, Colonel Benjamin Seaman, of Richmond-county, occupying the Chair, commenced the consideration of the State of the Colony's Grievances, which had been reported by the Special Committee which had prepared it ; l and after having spent the entire day thereon, as well as the whole of the following day 2 and the greater portion of the succeeding day, 3 also, in Committee of the Whole House, the latter day's session was closed by the adoption of the Report, by the Assembly, with a single Amendment, which was submitted by Colonel Philip Schuyler, and supported by nine of the minority, and five of the majority -- the only Amendment which was submitted by any one -- a marked feature of the proceedings having been that the amended State of the Grievances of this Colony was adopted by the House, without a division. 4

*■ Journal of the House, -"Die Mercury, 10 ho., A.M., the lstMarch, 1775."

2 Journal of the House, "Die Jovis, 10 ho., A.M., the 2d March, 1775."

3 Journal of the House, "Die Veneris, 10 ho., A.M., the 3d March, " 1775."

4 With that lack of modesty and truthfulness which characterized ail, concerning his own family, which John C. Hamiltou wrote, that gentleman (History of the Hepublic, i., 81, 82) has undertaken to glorify Colonel Schuyler, his grandfather, by falsifying the record, concerning this State of Grievances.

In the Committee which had been appointed for the preparation of the Slate, in which every member brought forward whatever he regarded as a Grievance, and not in the body of the Assembly, as is meanly insinuated, Colonel Schuyler introduced the Act of 4th George III., Chapter XV., as such a Grievance, which was approved and accepted by the Committee, with only two dissenting votes, notwithstanding the overwhelming majority, in that Committee, who was opposed to Colonel Schuyler.