See, also, the Provincial Congress to the Delegates in the Continental Congress, "In Provincial Congress, New York, July 28, 1775," and the " really anxious " reply of James Duane, John Alsop, John Jay, Robert R. Livingston, Junior, and Francis Lewis, " Philadelphia, 20th Sept. 1776 ; " General Washington to the Provincial Congress, " New- York, 13 May, 1776," enclosing a letter from Isaac Sears, concerning those who were underselling their teas j and what shall he, hereafter, said on the subject.

' John Alsop did not take his seat in the Provincial Congress until Monday morning, May 20th ; but on Tuesday afternoon, May 21st, he presented the Report of the Committee to the Congress. The Committee,, of which he was evidently the Chairman, niuBt have been created during that brief interval.

8 See his letter, resigning his seat in the Continental Congress, because of the Declaration of Independence. "Philadelphia, 16 July, " 1776," and JoneB's History of New York during the American Revolution, i, 35.

• Journal of the Provincial Congress, " Die Martis, 4 ho., P.M., May 21, •'1776."

WESTCHESTEE COUNTY.

24, 1776,] when it was approved, not, however, without several very important omissions, if the record of the approved Eeport may be relied on. 1 In its amended form, the Eeport was in the following words :

" Your Committee do report: That there is great " reason to believe that the enemies of American Lib- " erty have a general communication with each other "through this and part of the neighbouring Colonies, " by reason whereof the influence of the British Gov- " ernment is much extended and the minds of the " people poisoned by false reports and suggestions.