5 That organization was effected at a' public Meeting of the Inhabitants who disapproved the ' request" of the Committee, which was held at the Widow De La Montagnie's, in Broadway, opposite the Fields, on Friday evening, March 3, John Thurber presiding.-- (^1 Broadside, signed by John Thurber, in the Library of the NeW York Historical Society.)

8 The Committee of Observation called its Meetings by means of handbills posted throughout the City ; and the Meeting at the Widow De La Montagnie's was called in the same manner.

7 As nearly as can be ascertained, the Liberty-pole stood in the Fields,, now the Park, near the present line of Broadway, opposite the block, which is bounded by Murray and Warren-streets.

It occupied a small lot of ground which had been bought for that purpose, by those who atyled themselves " Sons of Liberty ; " and, as lately as 1785, Isaac Sears, the assign of one of those who had bought it, many years previously, made a claim on the City, and was paid for his interest therein. -- (Manual of the Corporation of the City of New Yorlc for 1856, 433.)

WESTCHESTER COUNTY.

posed the following question : " Whether a certain "Number of persons shall be appointed and authorized to meet such Deputies as the Counties may "elect, and join with them for the sole object of ap- " pointing out of their body on the 20th of April next, " Delegates to the next Congress ?" Those who were opposed to the question, the conservative faction and its governmental allies, promptly demanded a Poll of the Voters, giving as reasons for their demand, that the business of the day was to take only the sense of the Freeholders and Freemen ; that none but those of these two classes of persons had a right to vote on the question ; and that it was impossible to discriminate them from those who had not such a right.