"(This Deponent cannot now recollect which of the two numbers was "mentioned, but rather thinks fourteen.) This Deponent further says, "tliat the amount of all he heard at New-Rochelle, at the time aforo- " said, respecting .loseph Reade, was, that the said Joseph Reade was a "great Tory and very unfriendly to the American cause, and further " this Deponent saith not.

"A. W. D. Pkvstee.

" Sworn before me, this 10th 1 Sept., 1770. J " Abm. Yates, June., President."

That .\braham W. De Peyster was an employ-! of the Convention, in its work of making arrests and conveying the victims into exile, as a copyist, etc. ; and he was evidently an.xious for another job, of the same class, when he volunteered this singular testimony. But the Committee of Safety disappointed bis evident expectations, by transmitting the Affidavit to the Committee of Westchester. county, *' with a letter requesting "them to proceed thereon," {Journal of the CommiU.ee of Safetij, "Die "Martis, 8 ho., A.M., Septr. 10, 1770.")

^* Journal of tlie Ommittee of Safety, " Die Luna?, 9 ho., .\.M., October "7, 1770."

15 Ibid.

Journal of the Conrenlim, "Wednesday afternoon, July 17, 1776."

" Rfa-oLVE» : That General Jlorris be ordered imnu'diately to appro- "hend and secure the persons ordered to be apprelu ndoil by this Con- " vention, yesterday, and that he be furnished with a list of those persons "nan»!S," {Journal of the Cmcentvoi, "Die Sabbati, 4 ho., P.M., Augt. '10, 1770.")

.\s no such Order for the arrest of any one as is recited in the above Resolution appears in the published Journal of the Omventiim of the preceding day, it is evident that this is one of those instances of arbitrary lawlessness, familiar to despots, of which the records are buried In secrscy.