Appended to the copy of this Resolution wliich was laid before the Provincial Congress of New York, was a memorandum, not included in the official transcript of the Resolution, and without a signature, which was in these words : " To be kept as secret as " its nature will admit ;" and it was accompanied by extracts from letters which the Continental Congress had received from London, in one of which the Governor of New York, William Tryon, was mentioned ; and in which, also, it was said that " it would be a " capital stroke to get possession of Tryon." The same good fortune which Lieutenant-governor Colden had enjoyed, in receiving early information of what was proposed or done in the secret sessions of the Continental Congress of 1774, was enjoyed by Governor Tryon, concerning the private correspondence and the secret proposals and doings of the Continental Congress of 1775 ; ' and he took refuge, first, on board

1 Journal of the Continental Congress^ *' Friday, October 6, 1775 ; ' ' Journal of Oie Provincial Congress, " Die Jovis, 9 lio., A.M., October 12tli, 1775."

-Journal of the Provincial Congress, " Die Jovie, 9 ho., A.M., October 12 "1775."

^Comimre the corresiwndence of Joseph Galloway aDdJauies Duane with the voDfiablu Lieutenant governor of New York, and the knowledge of the latter, concerning the secret doings of the Congress of 1774, which the former, members of the CongrcKs and pledged to secrecy, had coaimunicated to him, (pages 27, Xi, :i4, ante,) with this later instance of secret information and copies of secret correspondence, " received from the " Ji'ountain Head," by Governor Tryon, enabling him to secure his personal safety by taking refnge, first, on the Uulifajr, a packet-ship, and, finally, on the Dnclu-ss of Gordon, the latter lying under the protecting guns of the Asia.