8 Proceedings of the Committee of- Observation for t?ie City and County of New York, at an Adjourned Meeting, 8th March, 1775.

«HoltV New-York Journal, No. 1880, New- York, Thursday, March 16, 1775; Rivimgton's New-York Gazetteer, No. 100, New- York, Thursday, March 16, 1775;* Gaine's New-York Gazette: and the Weekly Mercury, No. 1223, New-York, Monday, March 20, 1775.

. 6 Proceedings of the Committee of Observation for the City and County of New-York, "Committee-Chamber, 15th March, 1775."

With the single exception of de Lancey, in his Notes to Judge Jones's History of New York during the American Revolution, as far as our acquaintance with them extends, every writer on that subject, ourself included, has supposed and stated that the question of sending Delegates to a proposed Provincial Convention was unquestionably determined by the promiscuous Meeting, at the Exchange, without having seen that that vote had been subsequently repudiated by the Committee, for cause, and that it had been submitted to the Freeholders and Freemen, at the Polls, and definitely determined by them, and only by them, at the same time that Delegates were elected to represent the City and County, in that Convention.

* Holt and Gaine stated the vote to have been eight hundred and twenty-live in favor of the appointment of Deputies, and one hundred and sixty-three in opposition : ltivington stated the vote was nine hundred and twenty-nine, in favor, and one hundred and forty-three in opposition.

They all agree that many voters declined to vote -- Holt and Gaine said, because their votes were seen to have been unnecessary : Rivingtou said "the friends of the old five Delegates, (finding that they were not " permitted to vote for them as Delegates) almost all declined giving " their voices at all."