They were these ..." were unanimously elected Delegates to represent " this Colony at such Congress, with full power to them or any five of "them, to meet the Delegates from the other Colonies and to concert " and determine upon such measures as shall be judged most effectual " for the preservation and re-establishment of American Rights and " Privileges, and for the restoration of harmony between Great Britain "and the Colonies."-- (Journal of the Convention, " Die Sabatti, 11 hora "a. m. April, 22nd, 1775.")

8 The Journal of this, the first, Provincial Convention of the Colony, was " printed in pursuance of a Resolution of the Legislature," in 1842 ; and it has been our authority, in whatever has been stated, in the text, concerning that body.

See, also, deLanceys' Notes to Jones's History of Netty York during the Revolutionary War, i., 486, 487 ; Pitkin's History of the United States, i., 325; Hildreth's History of the United States, First Series, iii., 72 ; etc.

Judge Jones, (History of New York, i., 38, 39,) strangely supposed the Members to the Congress were elected by the several Counties - those from the City of New York, at that promiscuous mass Meeting, at the Exchange, of which an account has been already presented. Bancroft, with all the authorities before him. (History of tlie United States, original edition, vi., 283 ; the same, centenary edition, iv., 513,) made all " the ru- " ral Counties," without exception, " co-operate with the City," in electing the Deputies, although Richmond, all of Queens except two Towns, Tyron, Cumberland and Charlotte-counties, made no pretension so send Deputies. He said, also, tbat all the members of the former Congress, "except the luke-warm Isaac Low," were re-elected : both Isaac Low and John Haring, both of them members of that Congress, declined reelections, notwithstanding the Convention desired to return them.