The committee was directed to inquire as to their guilt or innocence upon the following points: (1) Whether they had afforded aid or sustenance to the British fleets or armies; (2) whether they had been active in dissuading inhabitants from associating for the defense of the united colonies; (3) whether they had decried the value of the continental money and endeavored to prevent its currency; and (4) whether they had been concerned or actually engaged in any schemes to defeat, retard, or oppose the measures in the interest of the united colonies. All found innocent were to be discharged with certificates of character. Those found guilt\ were, at the discretion of the committee, to be imprisoned or removed under parole from their usual places of residence, or simply released under bonds guaranteeing subsequent good behavior. The only crown officials residing in Westchester County who were named in the resolutions were Solomon Fowler and Richard Morris, neither of whom was found CONTINENTAL SOLDIER. guilty of any offense. Richard Morris was a brother of Colonel Lewis Morris, the signer of the Declaration of Independence, and a half-brother of Gonverneur Morris, lie was judge of the colonial Court of Admiralty, but his designation as a possible foe to the Revolutionary programme seems to have been wholly undeserved, lie resigned his crown commission, giving as his reason that he could not conscientiously retain it, ami his country-seat at Scarsdale was subsequently burned by the British and his estate devastated. On July 31, 1776, less than two months after he was singled out as a possible traitor, he was unanimously appointed by the fourth provincial congress judge of the High Court