Editing Committees of correspondence (section)

===New York===
{{main|Committee of Sixty#Committee of Fifty-one}}
{{further|Province of New York}}
[[File:Fraunces Tavern Block.JPG|thumb|[[Fraunces Tavern]] in [[Lower Manhattan]], the meeting place of the [[Committee of Sixty#Committee of Fifty-one|Committee of Fifty]] on May 16, 1774]]
On January 20, 1774, New York formed their Committee of Correspondence.<ref name=":0" />

In response to the news that the [[Port of Boston]] would be closed under the [[Boston Port Act]], an advertisement was posted at the coffee house on [[Wall Street]] in [[New York City]], a noted place of resort for shipmasters and merchants, inviting merchants to meet on May 16, 1774, at the [[Fraunces Tavern]] "in order to consult on measures proper to be pursued on the present critical and important situation."{{sfn|Dawson|1886|pp=7–8}} At the meeting, chaired by [[Isaac Low]], the committee resolved to nominate a 50-member committee of correspondence to be submitted to the public. On May 17, 1774, they published a notice calling on the public to meet at the coffee house on May 19 at 1 p.m. to approve the committee and appoint others as they may see fit.{{sfn|Dawson|1886|pp=9-10}} At the meeting on May 19, [[Francis Lewis]] was also nominated and the entire Committee of Fifty-one was confirmed.{{sfn|Dawson|1886|p=10}}

On May 23, 1774, the committee met at the coffee house and appointed Isaac Low as permanent chairman and [[John Alsop]] as deputy chairman.{{sfn|Dawson|1886|p=16}} The committee then formed a subcommittee, which produced a letter in response to the letters from Boston, calling for a "Congress of Deputies from the Colonies" to be assembled, which became known as the [[First Continental Congress]] and was approved by the committee.{{sfn|Dawson|1886|p=17}}

On May 30, 1774, the Committee formed a subcommittee to write a letter to the supervisors of New York's counties to exhort them to also form similar committees of correspondence, which was adopted in a meeting of the Committee on May 31.{{sfn|Dawson|1886|p=20}}

On July 4, 1774, a resolution was approved to appoint five delegates contingent upon their confirmation by the freeholders of the City and County of New York, and to request that the other counties also send delegates.{{sfn|Dawson|1886|p=24}} Isaac Low, John Alsop, [[James Duane]], [[Philip Livingston]], and [[John Jay]] were then appointed, and the public of the City and County was invited to attend City Hall and approve the appointments on July 7.{{sfn|Dawson|1886|p=25}} This caused friction with the more radical [[Sons of Liberty]], known as the Committee of Mechanics faction, who held a meeting in the fields on July 6.{{sfn|Dawson|1886|pp=24–25}} Three counties, [[Westchester County, New York|Westchester]], [[Duchess County, New York|Duchess]], and [[Albany County, New York|Albany]] acquiesced to the five delegates, while three counties, [[Kings County, New York|Kings]], [[Suffolk County, New York|Suffolk]], and [[Orange County, New York|Orange]], sent delegates of their own.{{sfn|Dawson|1886|p=29}}