Long Island Historic Homes Ancient And Modern Including a History of Their Fo
Long Island Historic Homes Ancient And Modern Including a History of Their Fo
Henry Whittemore
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the news of the passage ot the Boston Port Bill reached New York, May, 1774, and a Committee of Correspondence was raised to con- cert measures of resistance, John Alsop was the first named of the fifty-one members, and on the organization of the committee was chosen chairman. In the summer of the same vear he was elected one of the New York delegates to the first Continental Congress. In May, 1775, he was one of the Committee of One Hundred, chosen by the citizens to take charge of the Go\xrnm...ent till a con- vention could be assembled; the following vear he was re-elected to Congress. On the adoption of the Declaration of Independence, and its immediate ratification by the Provincial Convention of New York, Mr. Alsop resigned his seat. In a letter to the Convention he expressed surprise and indignation at the slight put upon the New York delegation in lea\'ing it without instructions on this point, al- though such instructions had been repeatedK' sought for, and disappro- bation as to the course of Congress in closing the door against recon- ciliation with Great Britain.
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