Heavy penalties were imposed on those who should fail to discharge all these requirements ; with levies on the properties of the delinquents, if they possessed property, or, in the absence of property, they were to be imprisoned " until such fine, together " with the charges, should be paid," which meant, at that time, an imprisonment in a cold Jail, without any other food than that which the prisoners' friends or the charitable could provide; without the slightest opportunity to earn anything, from which to support themselves or pay the fines; and the starvation of

1 Samuel Drake was a member of the Provincial Convention, 1775 ; a member of the first County Committee, 1775 ; and of that of 1776-'7. He represented Westchester-county in the Assembly of the State, 1777- '8, 1779-80, 1780-'81, 178li and 1788 ; etc. Ho was a resident of the Manor of Oortlandt.

2 Lewis Graham was connected with the Morrises, of Morrisania, by marriage ; and he was a member of all the Provincial Congresses and of the Convention of the State, 1775- 1 78. He was made Judge of the Court of Admiralty, in February, 1778.

a Abraham Storm had been originally elected to the command of the Tarrytown Company of Militia, {Page 106, ante ;) and he represented the Manor of Philipstoorough in the County Committee of 1776-- '7. He lived at Tarrytown.

* Elijah Miller was a resident and one of the Sub-committee of Northcastle.

6 This statement is made on the authority of a Letter from Gilbert Drake, Chairman of the County Committee, to the Provincial Congress, "White Plains, October 24th, 1775." The Journal of the Provincial Congress, ("Die Mercurii, 10 ho., A.M., October, 1775,") shows the receipt of the letter, by that body, and the issue of the Commissions to the several gentlemen named.