Note 187 — Chapter I · (continued 2)

Authentic Account of the proceedings of the Congress held in New York in 1765 on the subject of the American Stamp Act (Philad., 1767; Lond., 1767; Philad., 1813; in Almon's Tracts, 1773; in Niles's Principles and Acts, 1876, p. 155,—see Sabin, xiii. nos. 53,537, etc.); Journal of the first Congress of the American Colonies, N. Y., Oct. 7, 1775, ed. by Lewis Cruger (Sabin, iv. 15,541). They passed a declaration of rights, an address to the king, a memorial to the lords, and a petition to the commons. (Cf. Hutchinson's Mass., vol. iii., App. pp. 479, 481, 483, 485; N. H. Prov. Papers, vii. 87, 89; H. W. Preston's Docs. illus. Amer. Hist.,1886). John Adams and McKean at a later day exchanged memories of the Congress (John Adams's Works, x. 60, 63). Beardsley, in his W. S. Johnson (p. 32), explains the position of that member for Connecticut. Cf., among the general writers, Bancroft, v. ch. 18; N. C. Towle, Hist. and Analysis of the Constitution, 307; Frothingham's Rise of the Republic, 185; Palfrey's New England, iv. 399; Barry's Mass., ii. 304; Dunlap's New York, i. 416; Green's Hist. View of the Amer. Rev., 72; Lossing in Harper's Monthly, xxvi. 34, and Mahon's England, v. 126.