On this day 250 years ago at the City Hall in New York City, a meeting of the freeholders and freemen of the city elected 60 men to be a Committee of Inspection (also referred to as the “Committee of Sixty” or the “Committee of Observation”). The Committee was charged with enforcing the boycott of trade with Britain adopted by the Continental Congress in the Continental Association. John Jay, who had served in the First Continental Congress, and who would later hold many public offices including as the first Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court, was the most prominent member of the Committee. Scottish immigrant Alexander McDougall was also a member and would later become a Major General in the Continental Army.

Sources: https://founders.archives.gov/?q=%2222%20November%201774%22&s=1111311111&sa=&r=3&sr=; Dawson, Henry (1886). Westchester County, New York, During the American Revolution at p. 39.