The anxious Provincial Congress resolved, however, that it would re-assemble at the Court-house, at the White Plains, on the following Tuesday, the second of July, to resume its official business, which was thus interrupted by the appearance, in the distance, of danger ; and it resolved, also, that the next Provincial Congress should meet at the same place, on the succeeding Monday, the eighth of July.

In the brief Session which was thus interrupted, and which was not continued, at the White Plains or elsewhere, the third Provincial Congress continued the injudicious and unjust, to say nothing of the barbarous, outrages inflicted on those who were not inclined to accede to every measure of the Congresses and Committees, no matter how passive those Colonial Non-jurors of America might have been ; and those pains and penalties were inflicted, directly.

by its own authority ; ' and indirectly, by the several local Committees;^ the Congress, meanwhile, acquiescing in, if not approving, the most barbarous treatment of its prisoners ; ^ winking at the barbarities practised by mobs, on those whom it had proscribed ; *

1 Journal of the Provincial Conyrets, " Die Martis, P.M., May 28, 1776 ;" the sa7ne, " Die Jovis, 9 ho., A.M., May 30, 1776 ; " Oie snme, " Die Martis, " 9 ho., A.M., June 4, 1776 ; " the same, " Die Jovis, 9 ho., A.M., June "6, 1776 ;" etc.

'^Journal ofthePiovincial Congress, "DieLitDse, 4 ho., P.M.. June 3, "1776;" the same, "Die Jovis, 9 ho., A.M., June C, 1776;" the same, "Thursday morning, June 20, 1776;" the same, "Friday afternoon, "June 21, 1776 ;" etc.