Fifteen Mw77;//wt affidavits were subsequently sent to the f-ongress, and hkai>//j the rirtim^ when he wan {jiven a hearing; but their worthlessness was so evident that the Congress discharged Poughty, although, as stated, it would not permit him to have copies of the papers, nor even to rea*! them, {Junruals of thf <'oiiiniiU^-f »f Sa/Hfi, September 4th ; snnu-, Sei)tendier iiStb, 1775; Jonrnah uj the Provincial Congress, " Die .lovis, 9 ho., A.M., Oirtober " 19, 1775 ; " the same, " Die Martis, 9 lio., A.M., October 24, 1775 ; " /V titioNH of Timothy bought ij and others^ Sejitember 22, 25, October 4, 11, mfy, {UiHtoriral Mannsrripbi,eU\: PetUions, xxxi., 90,88, 70,30.)

'» Among other instiinres, those of Angus McDonald, Molancton Law - rence, and Captain Drewit/,, may be referred to.

*» The local autliorities arrested and confined, without any trustworthy evidence, Jolm Morrell, Adam Patrick, and Isaiah Purdy, in Orangecounty ; the Berghs, Timothy Poughty, and Mordecai Lester, in Duchess county ; John Connor, in Tryon-county ; Abraham Lawrence, in Queens county ; etc.

7 Letter from the Provinci^il Congress to the Genthnnen Mt rrhanLs of tlte Province of (ii^chee. " In Prooincud Oongresn^ New-York, June 12th, 1775,'

^Letter fr</in the Provincial Chugress to the Delegates for the Colony of New York, in the <'ontinentul Congress^ ** In PROVINCIAL Congress, Nkw- " York, June 28th, 1775."

See, also, the Plan of Accommotlution, ailopted in advance and kept in constant readiness for inniicdinfr use, by the same Provincial Congress, "4 ho., P.M., Die Martis,.June 27th, 1775/' (sue poijes 27;i, 274, anf*t ;) Lttter from the Provincitd Congress to the Covuniltve of Richmond county, *"Nt;w- '* York, 2d December, 1775 ; " etc.