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.

" We the Committee for the County of Westchester do humbly certify " that at the Election of delegates to represent the said County in the " Next Provincial Congress to be held at New York the 14"> instant, " which was this day held at the Court House of the said County, Colonel "Lewis Graham, Stephen Ward, EBq., Col. Joseph Drake, Robert Graliam, " Esq., John Thomas, Jun' Esq., Mr. William Pawling, Major Ebenezer " Lochwood, Col. Pierre Van Cortlandt, and Col. Gilbert Drake, were duly " elected agreeable to the resolves of the Provincial Congress, to repre- " sent this county until the Second Tuesday of May next ; and that it " was voted by the people that any three of the said Deputies shall act "for this county.