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History of Westchester County, New York, Vol. I

Scharf, J. Thomas, ed. History of Westchester County, New York, including Morrisania, Kings Bridge, and West Farms, which have been annexed to New York City, Vol. I. Philadelphia: L.E. Preston & Co., 1886. 343 words

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.)

' Bartholomew Haines, a cousin of Godfrey Haines, was one of those who were reported to the Provincial Congress, as obnoxious to the revolutionary faction iu Westchester-county, {page 29U, ante;) and he was, also, one of those who were arrested and thrown into the Jail, at the White Plains, in the Summer of 111 {Uistorical 3Iiiuuscripts, etc. : Petitions, xxxiii., 108.)

8 Letter from the Sub-committee of the Committee of Westchester-county to the Prorincial Congress, ' White Plains, November 1, 1775."

Among those who were, also, arrested and thrown into prison, by the Committee of Westchester-county, under the provisions of the enactment of the Provincial Congress which is now under consideration, were Joshua Purdy, Caleb Morgan, John McCord, Gilbert Horton, Josiah Brown, Edmund Ward, Samuel Merrit, Philip Fowler, Gabriel Purdy, William Barker, Junior, John Besley, Isaac Brown, Bartholomew Haines, Joseph Purdy, and Jonathan Purdy; and, as an evidence of the wide-spread ruin which was inflicted on the inhabitants of the County, by the sequestrations of the real and personal estates of those who were " suspected " of being opposed to the Rebellion, there were sequestrated in the single Town of Salem, prior to the sixth of December, 1776, the properties of Ephraim Sanford, Thomas Smith, Benjamin Close, Gilbert Hum, Samuel Baxter, Abraham Close, Job Keeler, Jonathan Wallace, Ezra Morehouse, Jacob Wallace, Samuel Wallace, Nathaniel Palmer, Nathan Osborn, Abraham Dan, Edward Jones, and George Butson.*