" 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.

The Jail, in the City of New York, when Godfrey Haines was cast into it, was confining other victims of arbitrary and unwarranted arrests who, also, had been sent to the Congress, by the country Counties ; and it may be reasonably supposed that his animosities against the Congresses and the County Committees and those who favored them, were not, in the slightest degree, modified, by his association with those prisoners or by his own imprisonment. But, notwithstanding those animosities, his necessities compelled him to seek relief; and, on the fourth of October, the fifth day of his confinement, he united with his fellow-prisoners, in the following l\titlon, probably written by himself, addressed to the Provincial Congress, which had reassembled on the morning of that day : *

"To the Honourable Provincial Congress.

"Gentlemen: As there is Six of us Confined in " Goal by your order Charg'd with misdemeanors, we " should take it kind of you if you'd bring us to Im- "ediate tryal or provide for us in our Confinement as "we have not wherewithal to suport our ourselves. " And you will oblige yours