Besides that almost unintelligible entry in the Journals of the Provincial Congress, no mention appears to have been made on the subject, if any thing further was done with it. It is probable, however, that an Election was ordered to be made for Deputies, on the third Tuesday, which was the sixteenth day, of April ; 1 and that the fourteenth day of May was designated for the meeting of the new Provincial Congress. 2

The Provincial Congress itself appears to have been disbanded, informally -- its Journal makes no mention of a formal adjournment -- on the afternoon of Monday, the thirteenth of May, 1776 ; 3 and, thus the second Provincial Congress of the Colony of New York and its doings, for evil or for good, became subjects for the pens of those who should thenceforth assume the grave and responsible duties of historians.

We mentioned, in another part of this narrative, 4 the election of " a Committee for the County of West- " Chester," on the eighth of May, 1775, and the appointment of Gilbert Drake for its Chairman, and Micah Townsend for its Clerk. It appears that, either by pre-determined limitation or otherwise, the term of service of that County Committee expired in May, 1776 ; and, in order that the succession of that body might be continued, notice to that effect having been given, on the sixteenth of April, 1776, "a Number " of the Freeholders and Inhabitants of Westchester- " county appeared at the Court House," and " chose "the Persons hereafter named to serve as a Committee " for the said County from the 2 nd Monday in May, " 1776. to the 2° a Monday in May, 1777 -- any twenty " whereof to be a Quorum, vizt :