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nsequences. The members listened with sympathy, and their approval of the conduct of Massachusetts was unanimous. But as that province, without directly asking the continent to adopt the army which she had assembled, entreated direction and assistance; and as the answer might involve an ultimate declaration of independence, as well as the immediate use of the credit and resources of all the colonies, the subject was reserved for careful deliberation in a committee of the whole. On the thirteenth, Lyman Hall presented himself from Georgia as a delegate for the parish of St. Chap. XXXIV.} 1775. May 13. John's, and was gladly admitted with the right to vote, except when the question should be taken by colonies. The first important decision of congress related to New York. The city and county on the fifteenth May. 15. asked how to conduct themselves with regard to the regiments which were known to be under orders to that place; and with the sanction of Jay and his colleagues, t