" Influenced by these Considerations, this City "and County conceive it highly necessary that a " Provincial Convention should, without Delay, be " formed of Deputies from all the Counties, for the " sole Purpose of appointing, out of their Body, Delegates for the next Congress, and therefore have " already chosen their Deputies : They prefer this "Mode to any other, as it tends to unite the Counties, " and to preserve that Harmony between them so " essential to the Interest of our common Cause.

" Be pleased to communicate this Letter to the " Inhabitants of your County ; and should they con- " cur with us in Sentiment, we beg they will consider, " whether it would not be best to choose their Depu- " ties so soon as that they may be down here by the " 20th of April next ; which Day we take the Liberty " of proposing to you as proper for the Meeting of " the Convention.

" We forbear urging any Arguments to induce " your Concurrence, being well persuaded' you are " fully sensible that the Happiness of this Colony " and the Preservation of our Rights and Liberties, " depend on our acceding to the General Union and " observing such a Line of Conduct as may be firm, "as well as Temperate.

" By Order of the Committee :

" Isaac Low, Chairman." 1

It is a very significant fact that, when the Committee's Circular Letter was written and made ready for transmission to Westchester-county, there was no appearance whatever, within that County, of the slightest organized opposition to either the Home or the Colonial Government; and that, among the debris of what had been conveniently regarded as a Convention of the County, assembled, in the preceding August, for the election of Deputies to represent the County in the late Congress, at Philadelphia, neither a County nor a Town Committee, actual or imaginary, remained, to bear testimony to the fact that such a Convention had ever existed, or to receive the Committee's Circular Letter and to take action on its recommendation.