1 It is uot impossible that this arrest had been made after it had become dark, on the twenty-eighth of September : it is quite clear that the Committee waB in session, that the letter of transmission was written, and that Godfrey was hurried through the County, after midnight, on the following morning. Secrecy was probably necessary to ensure success, where the revolutionary faction was so insignificant in numbers, especially, as will be seen in the farther proceedings in this case, when those who were also active, in the maintenance of their own rights and properties, had 'been aroused.

2 Journal of the Committee of Safety, " Die Veneris, 9 ho., A.M., Sep- " tember 29, 1775."

" his being rescued by persons inimical to the cause " of Liberty ; " and that body thereupon reconsidered its Order of the preceding day, and ordered " that the " said Godfrey Haines be committed to the Jail in this " City till the further order of this Committee or the " Provincial Congress of this Colony ; " 3 and into the Jail, in New York, Godfrey was accordingly ca.~t. without, however, the slightest provision for his support, while he should remain there.

The Jail, in the City of New York, when Godfrey Haines was cast into it, was confining other victims of arbitrary and unwarranted arrests who, also, had been sent to the Congress, by the country Counties ; and it may be reasonably supposed that his animosities against the Congresses and the County Committees and those who favored them, were not, in the slightest degree, modified, by his association with those prisoners or by his own imprisonment. But, notwithstanding those animosities, his necessities compelled him to seek relief; and, on the fourth of October, the fifth day of his confinement, he united with his fellow-prisoners, in the following Petition, probably written by himself, addressed to the Provincial Congress, which had reassembled on the morning of that day : 4