Lossing, (Field Book of the Revolution;) Frothingham, (Rise of the Republic ;) Ridpath, (History of the United States ;) Lodge, (History of the English Colonies in America;) Morse, (Annals of the American Revolution;) Warren, (History of the American Revolution ;) and others, although abounding in facts and fictions concerning Massachusetts, have not spared a line for the recognition of what was done for "the common "cause," by the General AsBembly of the Colouy of New York.

Pitkin, (History of the United Stales, i., 324, 3i5;) and Hildreth, (History of the United States, First Series, iii.,66, 05,) with that fidelity to the truth which distinguished them, as historians, and notwithstanding they were New Englanders, not only recited enough of the facts to enable their respective readers to understand what the General Assembly of New York really did, but they also compared the result of those doings with the doings of the Continental Congress, very much to the credit of the former, without belittling what they regarded as also due to the latter.

3 Annual Register for 1775, " History of Europe," *117.

WESTCHESTER COUNTY.

Except those matters to which we have already referred, nothing which requires especial notice in this narrative, occurred until, in February, 1775, the General Assembly of the Colony rejected the Resolution, submitted by Judge Thomas, of Westchester-county, which provided for the election, by that General Assembly, of Delegates to the proposed Congress of the Continent, to be held at Philadelphia, on the tenth of May ensuing, reference to which has been already made. 1 Four days after that determination, by the General Assembly, to take no official action on the subject referred to, [February 27, 1775,] Peter Van Brugh Livingston brought it before the " Committee " of Observation," by which name the Committee of Inspection evidently preferred to be known ; and that Committee, notwithstanding its authority was limited to other and entirely different lines of duty, entertained and agreed to a Resolution, offered by that gentleman, " that the Committee take into Consider- " ation, the Ways and Means of causing Delegates to " be elected, to meet the Delegates of the other Col- " onies on this Continent in General Congress, to be " held at Philadelphia, on the ' 10th Day of May " next." a If any other action on the subject of that Res- "Ulution was taken at that time, it was not completed when the Committee adjourned ; and not until the following Wednesday, [March 1, 1775,] at an Adjourned Meeting of the Committee, was the subject disposed of, by ordering the publication of an Advertisement, addressed " to the Freeholders and Freemen " of the City and County of New York," in which were made a recital of the recommendation that another Congress should be convened at Philadelphia, on the tenth of May ensuing ; a suggestion that an Election of Delegates " ought not longer to be de- " layed ; " an acknowledgment that that Committee possessed " no Power without the Approbation of "their Constituents, to take any Measures for the " Purpose ; " and a " request " "' that the Freeholders " and Freemen of the City and County of New York, " will be pleased to assemble at the Exchange, on " Monday the 6th Instant, at 12 o'clock, to signify " their Sense of the best Method of choosing such "Delegates; and whether they will appoint a cer- " tain Number of Persons to meet such Deputies as " the Counties may elect for that Purpose, and join " with them in appointing out of their Body Dele- " gates for the next Congress." 3 That Advertisement was published on the following day, [March 2, 1775 ; ] 4 and, what was very unusual, those who were opposed to the revolutionary faction of the confederated party ot the Opposition appear to have organized, for the