were, subsequently, sent to him, (Petition nf Joshua Pardij and fourteen otiiers, " White Plains Goal, August the 18th, 1770 ; " Petition nf Jonathan Purdij, Junior, " White Plains Goal, August 30th, 1776 ; " Petitirm of Henry Chiise, " Wight Plains Goal, August 30, 1776 ; " etc.) as well as those Prisoners of War who, also, were sent to liira, for safe-keeping, {Exmninatioittt of John Simpson, Jaines Auchnintij, and SfVen oth<'rs. Prisoners of n'ar, " White Plains in Westchester County, July Gth, 1770, compared with the PetUuin of William McDermnt, one of the number ; with the Paroles of Jaines Auehmutij and John Simpson and Willitrm McDermot, dated October 20, 1776 ; and with the Petition of John Simpson, William MeDennot, Willixm Elder, and Joseph Wfdkomb, "Octr., 177C ; ") the latter of which Petitions is also interesting because of the information which it brings of the treatment of Prisoners of War, at the White Plains, by those who were in authority, under the "Convention of the Represeuta- " tivcs of the .State of New York ; " etc. » Viiie page 347, ante.

* Journal of the Proi'incUd Congress, Sunday Afternoon, June 30th, 1776."

^Journal of th^ Provincud Congress, ''Tuesday, P.M., White Plains, "July 9th, 1770."

" Although the Provincial Congress was seated at a distance from the City of New York, this Committee preferred to hold its meetings in that City ; and, with the unlimited authority with which it was vested, with nothing to control its own estimate of a "necessity," and with the strong arm of the military i)ower to support that estimate, that Committee was, in fact, an oligarchy of absolute power, possessing greater means for oppression and outrage than was held by the Provincial Congress which had created it and by whose warrant it acted.