Heavy penalties wereimpo.sed on those who should fail to discharge all these re(iuireraent,s ; with levies on the properties of the delinquents, if they possessed property, or, in the absence of property, they were to be imprisoned " until sucli fine, together " with the charges, should be paid," which meant, at that time, an imprisonment in a cold Jail, without any other food than that which the prisoners' friends or the charitable could provide; without the slightest opportunity to earn anything, from which to support themselves or pay the fines; and the starvation of

' Sam\iel Drake wa-s a lUiMiiber of the Pioviiirial Convention, 177r) ; a Mienilier of the first Coiinty ('oniniittce, 177r> ; ami of that of 177(')-'7. He represented Westehester-connty in the .\ssenihly of the State, 1777- 177!)-'X(), 17W>-'81, 17«(i and 1788 ; etc. He viaa a resident of tlie Manor of (\irthindt.

- Lewis (trahani was ronneoled witli the Morrises, of Morrisania, hy marriage ; and he was a member of all the Provincial Oongroasesand of the Convention of the State, 1775-'78. He waa made Judge of the (tonrt of Admiralty, in Kobrnary, 1778.

^Abraham Storm had Iwen originally elected to the command of the Tarr.vtown Company of Militia, (I'mje 282, f(ii('- ,) and he represented the Manor of Philipsborough in the County Committee of 177li-'7. He lived at Tarrytown.

Klijah Miller was a resident andoneof the Snl>-committee of Northcastle.

'This statement is made on the authority of a Letter frotn CI ilhrrt Dnike, Clinirnmn of the Conntij Commillei; to IIik Proviiiriul CoiujreM, "White Plains, October 24th, 177.1." The Jonrtial of the I'roviticuil CoiM^rcw, (" Die Mercurii, 10 ho., A.M., October, 177.5,") shows the receipt of the letter, by that body, and the issue of the Commiaeiious to the several gentlemen named.