" 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.

Eight days after the Provincial Congress had received and read the Petition of Godfrey Haines and his fellow-prisoners, that body received the following Resolution from the Continental Congress, which probably served to intensify rather than to ameliorate the prevailing partisan animosities ; and it was certainly not well-constituted for the relief of those who were already imprisoned on similar

Resolved, That it be recommended to the several "Provincial Assemblies, or Conventions and Coun- " cils, or Committees of Safety, to arrest and secure " every person, in their respective Colonies, who is

3 Journal of the Committee of Safety, "Die Sabbati, 9 ho., A.M., Sep- " tember 30th, 1775."

* lliitorical Manuscripts, etc.: Petitions, xxxi., 70.

* Joumatof the Provincial Congress, "Die Mercurii, 9 ho., A.M., Octo- "ber 4 th, 1775."