In that Report, the facts were duly recited, very much to the depreciation of the vindictive Colonel's manliness, although it recommended that he be allowed for his loss, and that he be also compensated " for his other " services," the latter having been asked for, by no others of the Deputies who had also traversed the County and had made similar purchases and had been contented with what they had respectively made, iu the

1 Vide pages 333-335, ante.

^Journal of the Provinrial Congress, "Die Mercurii, 9 ho., A.M., Au- •'gust 14, 1776."

^Gilbert Drake seemed to care very little for the respect of posterity ; and his ill-couduct iu the maaagemunt of his moDelary dealings with others, after the establishment of the Peace, led the Grand Jury to indict him, on a charge of e.\tortion, {HecortU of the Court, in manuscript, County-clerk's office, at the White Plains.J

operations. The Congress declared, as its opinion, "that Colonel Gilbert Drake sustained a loss, which "accrued in receiving and paying out tlie public " money, in purchasing Pork, by order of the late " Provincial Congress," without, however, assuming the loss referred to ; and then it voted the gallant Colonel, " the sum of seventy pounds, as a compensa- " tion for his services, expenses, and commissions, in " purchasing the said Pork, as aforesaid," and leaving him officially "whitewashed," with twenty pounds and what, besides, he had made in the operations, snugly secured in his pocket-book. It was proven, in that instance, that influence was u.-eful, even among " patriots ; " and the Chairman of Westchestercouuty's County Committee, in the same instance, found it well to have been a Drake.*