Penn, in May, 1774 -- was not even mentioned -- even Westchestercounty indicated that he was not a favorite, beyond a known limit; and its Deputation in the Provincial Congress did not pander to his inordinate ambition. The canvass was, indeed, confined to two candidates, John Morin Scott, of the. City of New York, one of that celebrated " triumvirate " of the earlier periods of the Revolution and a lawyer of the highest standing, and " General " 3 Nathaniel Woodhull, of Suffolk, a veteran of the French and Indian War, and, at the time now under notice, President of the Provincial

1 Journal of the Provincial Congress, " Friday morning, 9 ho , June 7, "1776."

o Bolton said Lewis Morris was " a Brigadier-general in the Conti- " nental Army ; " and in his arrangement of the words, if they mean anything, that he held that Office before he was sent to the Continental Congress of 1775, (History of Westchester-county, original edition, ii., 312 ; the same, second edition, ii., 428 ; ) but we find no competent evidence of the truth of the former statement ; and evidence is not necessary to show the entire untruth of the latter.

3 Nathaniel Woodhull appears to have been a Colonel of the Suffolk Militia, who was "recommended or nominated to our Deputies in Pro- "viucial Congress for a Brigadier-general," by the Committees of the western Towns in Suffolk, in a meeting held at Smithtown, on the seventh of September, 1775, (Historical Manuscripts, etc.: Military Returns, xxvi., 216 ;) but a very careful examination of the Journah of the Provincial Congress and of its Committee of Safety, from that date until the earliest mention ofhim as a " Brigadier general" which we have seen, has failed to produce the slightest evidence of his election to that or any other military authority, beyond his Colonelcy.