Numbers were taken ; some were wounded ; and a few were killed -- all that, too, on a peaceful, unarmed, passive conmiunity ; unable to dcfitad itself, because it had been stripped of its arms ; in advance of any adverse movement : and only to promote the individual purposes of a handful of ambitious and reckless men : all that, too, in the name of " Liberty " and the " Rights of JIan." (Jminmlnf the Provincial Conijreft. "Sunday afternoon, June .■$(), 177C Cenenil Wnnhimjlon to the I'lesidenl of Cniit/rptui, " New York, ,Iune 28, 1776 ; " " Jones's Hiatory of New York (luring the Iteonhitionary W(ir. i., 108, 1(19.)

■ Journal of the Provincinl Congress, "De Lunne, 9 ho., A.M., May 27, " 177(> ; " the tame, " Tuesday morning. New York, June 11, 1776 ; " etc.

^ The Proriaciat Congress to the CommiUee of Qiieens-counlij, "In Pko- " VINCIAL CONORES-S Nf.w-York, A.M., June 11, 1776 ; " Journal of the Prorinrinl Comjress, " Thursday morning, June 27, 1770;" the same, "Die Mercurii, 9 ho., .\.M., June o, 1776."

* Jimmul of the Prnrinrial Congress, "Saturday. P.M., June 1, 1776 Uie name, " Die Martis, 0 ho., .\.M., June 4, 1776 the same, " Die Mer- " curii, 9 ho., A. M., June 5, 177G ; " the same, " Die .Tovis, 9 ho., A M., " June 6, 1776 ; " the same, " Die Luna;, 9 ho., A.M., June 10, 1776."

5 In the Api)pal of Thomas Harriot from the decision of the General Committee of the City and County of New York, the latler of whom n-ns, also, verii ei-idmlhi the Complainant in the original Case, on the sixth of June, the Provincial Congress, without any application from either party, voluntjirily offered to give its aid to the Respondent, " for the attendance of " their witnesses," leaving the Appellant without any such favor.