3Jo'inial of the ProeincUd OiiKjress, " Sunday morning, .June 9, 177C."

been of a different tenor ; but Jolin Morin Scott, who was present on both occasions, and whose master mind probably controlled, wisely halted, and evidently induced the Congress to halt, in the work of proposed persecution and devasttition and ruin. The Committee of Stilem was coldly dismissed, without even a word of symiiathy ; and the Provincial Congress paid HQ further attention to the subject.

With a persistency which was worthy of a better purpose, notwithstanding the rebuke which the Provincial Congress had thus administered, the Committee at Salem was not disposed to be thus relegated to the obscurity of a rural Town ; and, subsequently, two other letters, relating to the same general subject of " the disaffected persons who were under bonds to " that Committee," were addressed by it, to the Congress. The first of these letters is in these words :

" Gentlemen :

" As our civil and religious j)rivileges all lie at " stake, we that are friends thereto desire to lend a " lifting hand in trying to preserve them ; and as the " tories grow more and more disaffected, and are daily " going off on to Long island -- four men last week " from my neighborhooil, several more from other " parts, Capt. Theal and his sou John Lobdiu, and " Stephea Delance " [Z>e Lancey ?'\ " some of them "laid under £500. bonds and also the solemnity of an " oath -- but they regtird not any thing the Comuiit- " tee does with them, so long as they have their lib- '• erty. It is supposed numbers are concealed on " Long island. Please to take it into your wise cou- "sideration, whether or no it will not be best to send " and purge Long island ; and as I wrote to you a "little back by Mr.