There is no record of the discharge of Godfrey Haines from the Jail, in the City of New York ; but, on the contrary, when the record of the proceedings of the Committee of Safety, on the morning of the twenty-ninth of Sej^teinber, when he was taken before that body by Daniel Winter and the guard who had brought him from the White Plains,* was laid before the Provincial Congress, after the latter body had reassembled, after its rece-s, those proceedings were officially approved ; ^ and, subsequently, the further proceedings of the Committee of Safety, on the morning of the thirtieth of September, when Godfrey was committed to the Jail, in New York," were also officially approved by the same Provincial Congress.' He was not officially released ; but, very soon after his Petition had been filed, without receiving any other attention, his necessities nerved his arms f and, about midnight, he broke six grates out of the window of his prison, and released himself. Hastening to the wharf, on the East River, the starved fugitive, from whom all food and drink had been withheld for more than a week," he " impressed," if he did not steal, a boat ; and found refuge and food on board of

official and personal leanings were toward the Livingstons rather than toward the rivals of the latter, the De Lancoys, who had previously occupied the nearest place to the throne, in the Colony ; and, especially, since the Delegate referred to was, by marriage, a member of the Livingston family.