of the Session of that revolutionary body, during the same afternoon, a motion was made by Alexander McDougal, a Presbyterian, providing for the appointment of a Committee of two, to apply to all the Ministers in the City who could pray in English, "to "make such an arrangement among themselves as "would enable them alternately to open the Congress, "every morning, with prayer;" but Gouverneur Morris, Lewis Graham, Colonel Philip Van Cortlandt, Colonel James Holmes, Stephen Ward, and John Thomas, Junior, six of the nine members of the Congress who were from Westchester-county, probably recognizing the evident impropriety of spreading their politically dirty hands before Him who giveth no favor to those who loveth and maketh a lie, dissented from a majority of the Congress, and caused their dissent to be entered on the Journal of that body. 1

On Friday) the twenty-sixth of May, the Provincial Gongress adopted, unanimously, a Resolution, offered by Gilbert Livingston of Duchesscounty and seconded by John De Lancey of New York City, providing for the appointment of a Committee of one from each County, "to draw "up and report a proper Resolve of this Con- "gress, recommending to the different Counties "in this Colony, to form themselves into County " Committees, and also into Sub-committees for their " respective Townships and Districts, and recommend- "ing the signing of the General Association ; and also " to prepare and report to this Congress a draft of a " letter to be sent to the Committees and other per- " sons in the several Counties, for the above purposes, " and with copies of such Resolution." In that Committee of one from each County, Major Philip Van Cortlandt represented Westchester-county ; z and, on the following day, [May 27, 1775] it made a Report, in due form. 3