Whatever may have been the form and character of the document, it is evident, however, that such an Ordinance was really adopted and promulgated,' and that, agreeably to its provisions, on the seventh of November, a meeting was held at the White Plains, for the election of Delegates from the County of Westchester, to the' coming Congress. 3 It is not stated in what manner nor by whom the election was made ; but it is stated that Colonel Lewis

1 In the Journal of the Provincial Congress, of the sixteenth of October, it is said the Report was made "on the eighth of Jwfy last ;" in the Journal of that body, of the eighteenth of October, it is said the Report was made "on the eighth of June last ;" and in a memorandum appended to the Journal of that body, of the nineteenth of October, stating that the Report was "wanted," it is said, also, that it was "of the 8th "June last." In the Journal of the Provincial Congress, of neither of those days, however, does there appear the slightest mention of any such Report or of the subject of it.

2 Minutes of Proceedings during the recess of the Provincial Congress, by their Adjournment on the fourth of November, 1775.

3 The following document, copied from the original manuscript, (Historical Manuscripts, etc. : Credentials of Delegates, xxiv., 24, 67,) illustrates this subject :

"to tub honorable the provincial congress op the colony of "New York.