We shall see, hereafter, how much of honesty and integrity there were, in either of these, when the series of Resolutions, on the subject of the Colony's independence, which is now under consideration, was written and adopted ; how little the writer of them honestly and sincerely regarded those Resolutions as being, really, what they appeared to have been ; and how little foundation in truth there is for the greater portion of what has been written concerning that writer and what he did, on the ninth of July, 1776.

Having disposed of the subject of Independence in the curt and crispy Resolution which headed the series which was reported by the Committee, the Provincial Congress turned to other subjects of vastly less importance ; and, two days afterwards, on Thursday, the eleventh of July, very probably, no record of the fact having been found, the publication of the Declaration was made, officially, at the White Plains, in conformity with the second Resolution of the series, on that subject, which had been adopted by the Congress. 1

The great importance of that Resolution which gave the sanction of the Colony of New York to the Resolution for Independence which the Congress of the Continent had adopted on the second of July,

1 Bolton stated, in his Mutory of Westchester-county, (original edition, ii., 359, 360; the same, second edition, ii., 564,) that, on the occasion referred to, "the Declaration was read by John Thomas, Esq., and ** seconded by Michael Varian and Samuel Crawford, two prominent '■"Whigs of Scarsdale." But he has given no authority for the statement ; and unless by " John Thomas, Esq.," the reader of the Declaration on the occasion referred to, he meant the younger of the two who bore that name, we muBt be excused for doubting the accuracy of the statement.