History of Westchester County, New York, Vol. I
^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.
Judge Jones, in his llistortj of Xew York during the Revolutionary War, (i., Gl,) said that information was conveyed to the Governor by Kgbert Dumond, a member of the delegation from Ulster-county, in tlie Provincial Congress; and de Lancey, in his Sotes on that work, (i., 559,500,) acquiesced in that statement. We cannut bring oui-self to an agreement with those excellent authorities.
The Resolution was adopted by the Continental Congress, on Friday, the sixth of October; transmitted to the Provincial Congress, by the I'resident of the Continental Congress, on the ninth of October; and was not laid befcjrc the Provincial Congress, iintil the twelfth of October, until which day Dumond could not have had any knowledge of it. But, on the tenth of October, two days before the Provincial (jougress received it, Governor Tryon had received the information, "from uudoubted au '*thority from the City of Philadelphia," (^Governor Trijon to the Mayor of the CUij of Seic York, " New York, lO"" Oct. 1775 ; "; and his subsequent statement, that he was in correspondence with "the Fountain-head," (doveniur 'IVi/on to the Earl of Dartmouth, "O.v no.\iU) the Dltche,ss ok " GoHnox New Youk 11 th Nov 177.">,") confirmed his former statement, that the information came " from the City of Philadelphia." Having failed to secure that guaranty of protection from the Corporation of the City of New Y'ork which the circumstances led him to ask for, he went on board the Halifax:, on the eighteenth or nineteenth of October, {Governor Tryon to Mayor Hicks, ' ON board rnE H.M-ifax Packet, 19"'> "October, 1775.")