In the evening of the day on which the outrage on James Rivington was committed, {Thursday, November 23, 1775,] Lancaster Burling and Joseph Totten, members of the General Committee for the City and County of New York, offered a Resolution, in that body, citing Isaac Sears, Samuel Broome, and John Woodward to appear before it, to answer for their conduct in entering the City, on that day, with a number of horsemen, in a hostile manner, which the movers of the Resolution considered a breach of the Association; 1 but on the following evening, probably because it was distasteful to the greater number, Mr- Burling withdrew the Resolution, 2 rather than to see it ignominiously defeated.

Three days after the event, John Jay, with more self-respect and, certainly, with more respect for the honor of the Colony, notwithstanding he, also, appeared to take no interest in any other portion of the general subject, wrote a letter to the President of the former Provincial Congress, in which he warmly condemned the proceeding ; 3 but, as has been stated, there was, then, no Provincial Congress to receive and to consider his protest.

On the fifth of December, the General Committee of the City and County of New York returned to the subject and adopted a well-written Petition to the Provincial Congress praying that that body would take measures to protect the inhabitants of the Colony from a renewal of such aggressions. 4

1 Minutes of the General Committee for the City and County of New York, " Thursday, November 23, 1775."