Rec' from N York : "the best authority Nov 2 1775 W T." -- and it may have been sent to him by Egbert Duniont, as stated b}' Judge Jones and his commentator ; but, when it was siiid to have been received, the Governor had surely been on the Halifax or on the Ductless of Gordon, more than a fortnight.

The name of the real author of that Memorandum, on which Governor Tryon is inconsistently said to have placed so much dependence, and the purpose for which it was transmitted to him. after he had been roamed of his danger and had seatred his safety, are questions which need not be discussed, in this place.

■•See page 203, ante.

^ Jouniul of the Provincial Comjress, " Die .Jovis, 10 ho., A.M., October "26th, 177.5." ••See page 293, ante.

•Journal vf the Provincial Congress, " Die Veneris, 10 ho., A.M., Oc- "tober, 27, 1775."

8 "David Rhea says that Captain Haines told him he was put in jail "because he refused to deliver up his arms ; and that his punishment "had been determined, that he should not eat nor drink until he had "delivered them up." -- [Testimony of David Phea, before the CommiUee of Safety -Journal of the Committee, "Die Sabbati, 10 ho., A.M., January " 20th, 177C.")

" Haines was tried and sentenced, at the White Plains, on the twentyeighth or twenty-ninth of September, when his sentence of starvation probably coii,menced to run. Six, if not seven, days afterwards, he petitioned for food, saying "he had not whereHithal to suport himself," his jailers, in the City of New Y'ork, doing nothing more than to read his Petition, and to place it on their files, {page 293, anle.) It is not probable that his long fast was continued longer thau the succeeding midnight.