1 Holt's New-York Journal, No. 1679, New-York, Thursday, March 9, 1775 ; Rivington's New-York Gazetteer, No. 99, New-York, Thursday, March 9, 1775 ; Proceedings of the Committee of Observation for the City and County of New York, 6th March ,1775, into which the record of the proceedings of the Meeting at the Exchange, in the Morning, was officially copied ; Jones's History of New York during tlte Revolutionary War, i., 37, 38, and do Lancey's Notes on tlrnt History, i., 480-484 ; Leake's Memoir of General John Lamb, 100 ; Dawson s Park and its Vicinity, 38, 39; Gordon's History of tlw American Herniation, i., 472; Hildreth's History of the United States, First Series, iii., 71, 72 ; etc.

was the result of the day's labor, that it directed the detailed statement of those transactions, thus reported to it, to be entered, in full, in the Minutes of its own proceedings. Having thus disposed of the main question, apparently to its entire satisfaction, the Committee then proceeded to nominate, by ballot, eleven persons, " for the Approbation of the Freemen " and Freeholders, for the City and County of New " York, to serve as Deputies to meet such other Deputies as may be appointed by the remaining " Counties in this Province, for the sole Purpose of " electing out of their Body, Delegates for the next " Congress; " and the choice of the Committee fell on Isaac Low, Philip Livingston, James Duane, John Alsop, John Jay, Leonard Lispenard, Abraham Walton, Francis Lewis, Isaac Roosevelt, Alexander McDougal, and Abraham Brasher, 2 notwithstanding Isaac Low had previously " desired a Friend that in " Case he should be put on the Nomination, to de- " clare, in his Behalf, that he should be under the dis- " agreeable Necessity of Dissenting." 3