" Personally appeared before me, James Horton, " Junior, one of His Majesty's Justices of the Peace " in and for said County, ' Philip Pinkney, of full age, " who deposeth and saitii, that on Wednesday, the "twenty-fifth day instant,'* being in company, he "heard one say that CJodfrey Haines was determined " to have satisfaction on some particular persons," and "that there was a tender e.xpected, to take them off, "instantly; and that this Deponent was asked if he "would assist in taking of!" .ludge Thomas,'" private- " ly ; and that they were determined to have him, if " possible " ; and that there was a person to be in a

^ The puny facticm wtiich, witli tlie aid of tlic military power, wus exercising sucli a terrible authority, in Weetcliester-county, here coiifeased itH weakness, when unsupported l)y that power.

2 See piige 284, ante.

3 See page 28;i, ante.

< Jesse Hunt was Slieriff of Westchester-county, ITSl-lTS.'i.

5 Micah Townsend was a member of the County Commitler of IVT'i-'O, and its Secretary : lie was i>ue of tlie ]Mimite-nien, at W hite IMains, in February, 1770 ; and he was in i-oniniand of a Company, in the following Summer. He evidently left Westchester-county, soon afterwards, as he wa-s in the .\sseinbly of the State, in 1779-'S(I, representing Cumlierlaiid-county.

'Anthony Miller was Second Lieutenant of the Scarsdale and White Plains Company tif Militia, in 177'i, anil Captain of the S4iiue Company, in 177B.

'James Hurton, Junior, was proscrilx-d as a Tory, and ordered to b«' arrested in .Mine, 1770, (Hi^Un-icul Mttnitarripl ■, etc. : MinceWntevitK Puptrs^ XXX., 150.)