t-The entire prostration of the Colonial (tovernment, in New York, and its entire helplessness Ui protect the Colonists from the outniges to which they were subjected by the promoters of the Kebellion, is nowhere more clearly seen than in this appearance of one of those who were in rebellion, l>efore one of the King's Justices of the Peace, to make an olticial aindavit concerning a plot to <'arry away from his home, one of the leaders iu that Rebellion, by those who were nut in rebellion.

" Jouniul of tlie fVurincial < 'uiigrew, "Die Veneris, III ho,, .\.M., No- "veniber3d, 1775."

1< Juurtiol uf the Provincial Oiigrcss, " Die Veneris, 5 ho., P. 31.. Noveni- " ber 3, 1775."

HISTORY OF WESTCHESTER COUNTY.

" man intimated to him that Mr. Gilbert Budd " [the witness] "and Mr. Samuel Townsend' were the men " that were to be taken off ; and that there was another "that they would have, at all events; that Pinekney "told Budd that lie asked the man, who the other " man was that was to be taken ofl"; that the man an- " swered him that Judge Thomas was the man, who "they would have if it co.st them the lives of fifty " men ; that Pinekney told the said l\Ir. Budd that "there was a number of his, Budd'.s, neighbour.^, who " stood ready to assist the tender, in order to take "them; that Mr. Budd asked Pinekney if he knew^ " who those neighbours were ; he answered that one "of them was William Lounsberry - and one, Isaac " Gedney, Junr., and all Sutton's men, alluding to "some hired servants of Sutton's ; ' that Pinekney " said he came as a friend, and advised Mr. Budd to " keep out of the way, for that he did not think it safe " for him to sleep in his house, one night.