Paulding, a " Deputy for the said County, be requested to write a "letter to the said Committee, informing them that " it is the opinion of this Committee, that, agreeable "to the Resolutions of the Provincial Congress of this "Colony, the County Committees are altogether com- "petentfor punishing and confining persons guilty " of a breach of the said Resolutions or of either of " them."

The Westchester-county-men were not inclined, however, to be troubled with the subject, especially with the knowledge which they possessed concerning the temper of many of those who were within that County; and, on the morning of the thirtieth of September, Daniel Winter "represented" to the Committee in New York "that the taking the said God- " frey Haines back will be attended with danger of

1 It is not impossible that this arrest had been made after it had become dark, on the twenty-eighth of September : it is qnite clear that the Committee was in session, that the letter of tmnsmissinn was written, and that Godfrey was hurried through the county, nfirr mi,lnujht, on the fnttomug mnmiug. Sccreoy was probably necessary to ensure success, where the revolutionary faction was so inslKnifirant in numbers, especially, as will be seen in the farther proceedings in this case, when thueo who were also active, in the maintenance of their own rights and properties, had been aroused.

• Joumiil nf the CommiUee of Safety, " Die Veneris, 0 ho., .\.M., Sep- " tember -29, 1775."

" his being rescued by persons inimical to the cause "of Liberty ;" and that body thereupon reconsidered its Order of the preceding day, and ordered " that the " said Godfrey Haines be committed to the Jail in this "City till the further order of this Committee or the " Provincial Congress of this Colony ; and into the Jail, in New York, Godfrey was accordingly ca.-t. without, however, the slightest j)rovisiou for his support, while he should remain there.