" We would also request, when the others are sent " for, that the before-mentioned Isaac Gedney, Junior, " and William Nelson, .Foshua Boyea, Joshua Ferris, " Bartholomew Ilains, Elijah Hains, William Hains, " and John Hains, be also taken and brought before " the Honourable Congress, for taking up arms to " rescue Elijah Weeks, who was brouglit before the " Committee upon a charge against him. Upon the " charge, we would mention the Widow Margaret " (iedney, of the White Plains, (where they left their " Arms), Job Haddon, of Hiirrison Precinct, Benjamin " Morrell, of New-York, and Isaac Sniffen, of Rye- " Neck, as witnesses. "

" For evidence to the other charges, we beg leave to

Uilbert Itiidd of Slaniaroneck, was Lieutenant-colonel of the Second Kegiinent of Westchester-county Militia, (HuiUirical Mumuicriijls, etc.: Milifnni llHiinix, xxvi., V.i--p'igiaW.i, 284, imle.)

Itoltiin, in his IlisU'rii of WeKlrhfuter-comdy, (original edition, ii., 80, 81, .5(IU ; the saiio; second cilitiou, I'.i", Tl.^, 7Hi,) gave an account of his family.

<(iil. Budd Horton, of Maniaroneck, was the only representative of that Town, in the County Committee of 1776-'7, {flistorical Maiimcriplji, etc.: Miinlluwous I'aperx, xxxviii,, 309.) He WiLS captured and carried away, by the Koyal troops or by the local loyalists, in 1777, (Hintorical Momm ripls, etc. : Petition, xxxiii., 71(1.)

5 Captain Vandeput commanded the Asia, man-of-war, then at New York, ('onceniing the making of these Oars, vide page 295, ante.

» See page 302, post.

' "Jil.<tice Sutton" was the "William Sutton, Esij." who was one of thesigncisof the call for the Meeting at the White Plains, in April, 1775, as well as one who signed the Ih-claration and Protest, at the same jdace, against the proceedings of that Meeting, (cide puijm'Hij, 248, inUe.) lie was one of the King's Justices of the i'eace ; and one of those who were reported to the Committee on Conspiracies, in June, 177t;, and ordered to be arrested, ([iMtmcal Munusn-ipUi, etc. : MuKtUonemis Papers, xxx., 15(i.) He was sujnmoned to appear before the Committee, {Ibid, xxxv., 485 ;) and his rt-xaniination, before the County Committee, on the tw enty-third of July, 17TC, indicated the temper of that body against the De Lauceys, aud all who were connected with that family, either by kinship or in politics, (Itiid, xxxiv., 531, 605, 537, 535.)