2 There is not the slightest mention of this evidently tricky Pliilip, in any of the conteinporiiry records with whicli we have any iicquaintance, except in this instance; and we snspect he was dial lo.valist, Philip, who fled to Nova Scotia, at tlie close of tlie War, of wlioni Bolton made mention. He was evidently well-fitted fi>r a "Cow-boy;" and, very probably, he was one.

Bolton, in his Hialury of Weslcheater cuwdy, (original edition, i., 1S5, lfi6 ; the same, second edition, i., 248, 249,) gave a sketch and pedigree of the family.

" refer you to Colonel Budd^ and Mr. Gill. Budd " Horton,* with whom Mr. Pinkney has conversed.

" As we are only a Sub-committee appointed to take " the examination of Mr. Pinkney and such other " persons as might be necessary, and to make a Re- " port of our Proceedings to the Honourable the Pro- " vincial Congress, we beg leave to request that Mr. " Pinkney may be sent for and critically examined, " by the Congress, respecting the above matter, and " with relation to Oars being made by the request of " Captain Vandeput;^ and, also, that William Davis, " (who was employed in making the Oars,) and Sarah " Williams, the wife of Isaac Williams, of Westchester, " may also be sent for and examined as witnesses, " respecting them.

" We also request that Mr. William Lounsberry,* " Isaac Gedney, Junior, and three hired men who " work at Justice Sutton's,' may be .sent for, on account " of what Mr. Piuckney has related, though not sworn " to, that they, among others, were Minute-men, as he "called them; that they were to be ready, at a " moment's warning, to take ott' some persons who " were the most obnoxious.