In .Vpril Torin, 177('i, wvoral rohol tsoldiei-s were iiidiotod for "some Petty I.aiceniei<. trieil, convicted, and punisliod by ordiT of the "Court without any iiitorfeieiice of the Military; their Ollicoi-s at- " tended tin- trials, heaiil the evidoiiee, and upon their convii lion do- "clarod that ample jiistico wax done them, and thanked the Judge for " his candor and impartiality, during the course of the trials." -- Jones's lIMori/ «/Xiir r„rk tbiniuj Ihr liiiMiiUminnj ir.ii-, i,, i:i7.

Judge Jonos, the writer of the above paragr.ipli, wiis, at that tinio, one of the Judges of the Supronio Court of the Colony, and personally ucipi.-iinted with the facts stated. His praclioe was, in maltoi>i in which he was personally conoornod, to mention no name ; and the context certainly seems to indicate that the Trial was in the City of New York ; tint the leuriK-d Kditor of that roiiiiukablo work, has stated, in the fmfcr, (ii., <1'.H.) undoubtedly on coniiK-tont authority, that the Court referred to w lis held at the White Plains, in Wosti hestor-coiinty ; and that the presiilingJiiilgeofthnt Court w as Thomas Jonos, the w riter of the w ork from w hich this (laragraph was taken.

HISTORY OF WESTCHESTER COUNTY.

have been unwittingly, to establish as the formal enactments of that revolutionary body.^

As we have said, the letter which Ezekiel Hawley, in behalf of the Committee of the Town of Salem, wrote to the Provincial Congress, was laid before that body, on Saturday evening, the eighth of June; when it was read and filed.'' On the following morning, \_Handaij, June 9, 1775,] the Congress directed the following answer to be made to that remarkable letter :