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

" To the Honourable Provincial Congress.

" Gentlemen : As there is Six of us Confined in " Goal by your order Charg'd with misdemeanors, we " should take it kind of you if you'd bring us to Im- " ediate tryal or provide for us in our Confinement as " we have not wherewithal to suport our ourselves. " And you will oblige yours

"City Hall, October y e 4 th , 1775.

" Godfrey Hains, Adam Bergh,

"Timothy Doughty, Christian Bergh, Jun f .,

" John Dob, David Dob."

That Petition was duly presented to the Congress, on the day of its date, and was read before that body ; but no action whatever appears to have been taken on it, 5 then or subsequently.