Winter and his prisoner and the guard who accompanied them left the White Plains early enough to reach the City before nine o'clock on the morning of the twentyninth of September, the day on which the letter was written; 1 and the first subject which was brought before the Committee of Safety, there, at its morning session, in the City of New York, was the letter from • tbe Committee of Westchester-county, which Winter had brought, with his prisoner.

Although Gilbert Livingston, and Alexander McDougal, and Isaac Sears, and others of the more radical revolutionists were present, in the Committee, that body handled the subject with great caution, and determined to have no connection with it, ordering, as the result of its deliberations, "That the said " Godfrey Haines be Hent back to the Committee of "Westchester, under the care of the persons who " brought him to this City ; and that Mr. Paulding, a " Deputy for the said County, be requested to write a "letter to the said Committee, informing them that " it is the opinion of this Committee, that, agreeable "to the Resolutions of the Provincial Congress of this "Colony, tbe County Committees are altogether com- " petent for punishing and confining persons guilty " of a breach of the said Resolutions or of either of " them." »

The Westchester-county-men were not inclined, however, to be troubled with the subject, especially with the knowledge which they possessed concerning the temper of many of those who were within that County; and, on the morning of the thirtieth of September, Daniel Winter "represented" to the Committee in New York "that the taking the said God- " frey Haines back will be attended with danger of