There were other arrests in Westchester-county similar to that of Godfrey Haines, one of which, that of Elijah Weeks, was followed by an attempt to rescue him, by an armed force, among the latter of whom were Isaac Gedney, Junior,^ William Nelson,* Joshua Boyea, Jo.^hua Ferris,'^ Bartholomew Haines,' Elijah Haines, William Haines, and Joiin Haines, the persons who made the arrest having been Job Haddon, of Harrison Precinct, Benjamin Morrell, of New York, and Isaac SnitFen, of Rye-neck.*
^ Letter from the Committee o f Sa/eli/ to the C>mmitlee of Ulster-county "In Committee of Safety, New-Youk, 23rd Jaiiy, 177G."
^ Letter from the UUter county VommiUee to the Committee of Safety^, "KiNfiSTON, January 'iVth, 1776."
^ Willitwi Elsworthj Chairvtan of the Vhter-couiity Comviittee^ to the Provincial Congress, "Kingston, May 22, 1776;" Journal of the Prooin Cial Congress, "Die Sabbati, 9 ho., A.M., May 25, 1776."
* Isaac Gidriey, probably the same person, visited Governor Tryon, on the Duchess of Gordon, a few months afterwards, (Eramination of William Sutton before the Westchester-county Committee, July 2-3, 177C.)
5 William Nelson was one of those who, in the following year, "were "supposed to have gone to the British Army," (List of Sundry Persons, Inhabitants of Corthindt's Manor, etc. : Historical Manuscripts, etc. ; Mis. cellaneous Papers, xxxvi., 594).
s Joshua Ferris, a son of Caleb Ferris, was cue of those who went on board the Phunijr, when that ship went up the Hudson, in July, 1776, {Examination of Joshtta Ferris : Historical Manuscripts, etc. : MisceltaneoUg Papers, XXXV., 69, 85.) He, or another pcnson bearing the same name, wasapiisoner, intlieJail at the White Plains, in September, 177i;,at which time he petitioned the Provincial Congress "that His Irons may be "taken off as he caunott posibly Shift Himself or get clear of the Ver- "uiin, with which he is Greatly Infected to the great disturbance of his "unfortunate fellow prisoners," (Hisloricid Manuscripts, etc. : Petitions, xxxiii., 82.)