"Ordered, That the said Godfrey Haines be sent, " manacled or fettered, under guard, to Ulster-county " Jail; and that Colonel McDougal be requested to " procure an Officer, with a proper Guard of the " Militia or Minute-men of this City, to guard the " said prisoner and the other prisoners heretofore " ordered to jail, to Kingston, in Ulster-county."** At the same time, a letter was written to the Ulstercounty Committee, "praying" that body " that very " pariicular directions for keeping him in safe cus- " tody, to prevent his escape, be given as to Haines,
<This statement is based on the ^Iffidavit of James IFeifc, one nf the passengers; on the Proceedings of the Commillee of Safely of New- Jersey, '•with resprcl lo Uiose Prisoners;" on the Supplementary statement of James n'ebb ; on the Testimony vf David Uhea ; and on the SlHlmietit* of Major Thomas Henderson of the Monmouth-county Minute men, who conveyed the prisoners to New York.
"The reader will not fail to observe that the Committee carefully concealed the notable enactment of the Provincial Congress, of tlie first of the preceding September, {rile payes 287-289, ante.)
«The Coinmittoe made no mention of the fact that he had, then, been kept without food or water, a full week ; and that, siiu e his pniyer for food had been disregarded by the Provincial Congress, he wiw compelled either to force bis way out of the prisoner to starve, (vide pageWi, ante.)
'The only "evil practises " for which he had been condemned were "denying the authority and speaking contemptuously of the Congresses "and the Committee of Westcliester-county " -- Kunice Punly had made other charges Hgniiist him, which, however, had evidently been dismissed by the County Coiuniittee, (vide page I'M, ante.)