Appended to the copy of this Resolution which was laid before the Provincial Congress of New York, was a memorandum, not included in the official transcript of the Resolution, and without a signature, which was in these words : " To be kept as secret as " its nature will admit ;" and it was accompanied by extracts from letters which the Continental Congress had received from L3ndon, in one of which the Governor of New York, William Tryon, was mentioned ; and in which, also, it was said that " it would be a " capital stroke to get possession of Tryon." 2 The same good fortune which Lieutenant-governor Colden had enjoyed, in receiving early information of what was proposed or done in the secret sessions of the Continental Congress of 1774, was enjoyed by Governor Tryon, concerning the private correspondence and the secret proposals and doings of the Continental Congress of 1775 ; s and he took refuge, first, on board

1 Journal of the Continental Congress, " Friday, October 6, 1775 ; " Journal of the Provincial Congress, " Die Jovia, 9 ho., A.M., October 12th, 1775. "

2 Journal of tJie Provincial Congress, "Die Jovis, 9 ho., A.M., October 12 "1775."

3 Compare the correspondence of Joseph Galloway and James Duane with the venerable Lieutenant governor of New York, and the knowledge of the latter, concerning the secret doings of the Congress of 1774, which the former, members of the Congress and pledged to secrecy, had communicated to hint, (pages 27, 33, 34, ante,) with this later instance of secret information and copies of secret correspondence, "received from the "Fountain-Head," by Governor Tryon, enabling him to secure his personal safety by taking refuge, first, on the Halifax, a packet-ship, and, finally, on the Duchess of Gordon, the latter lying under the protecting guns of the Asia.