" 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.

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the Asia, man-of-war, then lying in the stream.' Captain Vandeput of that ship, treated him icindly ; 'gave him an order for some oars ; and evidently found a way to restore him to his home, in Rye. He was there, during the same month, engaged in " getting " out a parcel of oars for the man-of-war," in New- York,^ declaring, at the same time, that he " was " determined to have satisfaction on some particular "persons," evidently in retaliation for the wrongs which those persons had inflicted on him.^

Tlie subsequent career of that unfortunate victim of Westchester-county's " patriotism " would afford material for a romance, as it has done that for dispassionate historj'. During the succeeding December [1775], in company with " one Palmer " -- said to have been of Mamaroneck -- he loaded the Sloop Polii/ and xIh/j, which he had recently purchased from Isaac Gedney, with Beef, Pork, and other Provisions ; and, taking on board three quarter-casks of Madeira Wine, a package of Turnip.«, and other articles, all of them for General Howe, and other packages for General Ruggles, Mr. Willard, and Mrs. Ann Wood, together with Isaac Gedney, Bartholomew Haines (who was his cousin) Mr. Palmer (who was one of the owners of the cargo), and seven other persons, passengers, he sailed for Boston.