" Robert Merrit, "Roger Merrit, " Isaac Anderson, "John Willis, " Nehemiah Sherwood, " William Orooker, "Andrew Carhart, "SethPurdy, " Disbury Park, " Major James Horton, " Nathaniel Sniffen, " Sol. Gidney, " Bartholomew Hains, " Gilbert Hains, "Joshua Purdy, " James Wetmore, " William Brown, " Joseph Purdy, " Jonathan Budd, " Ebenezer Brown, Jun., "Henry Slater, '"Andrew Kniffen, " Thomas- Wilson, " Timothy Wetmore, Esq., " Daniel Erwin, " Roger Park, "Roger Kniffen, "John Hawkins, " Andrew Merrit, " Archibald Tilford, " Adam Seaman, " Rievers Morrel, "Abraham Miller, "Jonathan Kniffen, "John Buvelot, "Gilbert Thaell, " Isaac Brown, " Peter Florence."

Those who are acquainted with the methods which are very often employed by audacious partisans or by those more insidious supporters of a questionable proposition, for the instruction of an opponent in what way to do or to say what, if left to himself, he would not think of either saying or doing, in any manner, will be very likely to concur in the suspicion which prevails, that the following papers, each of them supplementary to the above-recited disclaimer and declaration, were the reasonable results of such, not always gentle, social or political or ecclesiastical or financial pressure as is, very generally, seen among the methods to which reference has been made.

" Rye, October 17th, 1774.

" We, the Subscribers, having been suddenly and

^"unwarily drawn in, to sign a certain Paper pub-

\"lished in Mr. Rivington's Gazetteer, of the 13th

"instant; and being now, after mature deliberation,