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. Mr. Budd "further says that he heard that Godfrey Haines said " that he was going to get a parcel of Gars made for "the man of war; that Haines came to iMamaroneck, "and that the next day, Isaac Gedney set about mak- " ing Oars; that they were making (as Budd uiider- " stood) by Haines's order, for Capt. Vandeput. Mr. " Budd says the tories are eijuipped, and constantly " in arms, walking about, at night, 6, 8, and 10 at a "time. Mr. Budd further says that it is reported that "those tories say they are determined to defend tiieni- " selves; and that if any body came to their houses to "take away their Arms, they would fire upon them.'

The Congress appears to have been in one of it^ j temperate moods when that delegation from tlu chivalry of ( 'olonial Westchester-county, bearing th( missive from the Goinmittce of that County and it^ kindred Affidavit, approached its doors; and for that reason, unless it was because of the siiallovvness of the ! several accusations and re()ue.sts which were in the papers or of the poltroonery of those who bore them the Congress did no more than to order the letter and affidavit and examination to be filed; to charge all who knew of "this mattei," "to keef) the whole of it "a secret;" and to transmit a letter to the Committeeol Westchester-county -- the latter, the most noteworthy