Rec d from N York: "the best authority Nov 2 1775 W T."-- and it may have been sent to him by Egbert Duuiont, as stated by Judge Jones and his commentator ; but, when it was said to have been received, the Governor had surely been on the Halifax or on the Duchess of Gordon, more than a fortnight.

The name of the real author of that Memorandum, on which Governor Tryon is inconsistently said to have placed so much dependence, and the purpose for which it was transmitted to him, after he had been warned of his danger and had secured his safety, are questions which need not be discussed, in this place.

**See page 117, ante.

6 Journal of the Provincial Congress, " Die Jovis, 10 ho., A.M., October " 26th, 1775."

G See page 117, ante.

7 Journal vf the Provincial Congress, " Die Veneris, 10 ho., A.M., Oc- "tobor, 27, 1775."

' " David Rhea says that Captain Haines told him he was put in jail "because he refused to deliver up his arms; and that his punishment "had been determined, that he should not eat nor drink until he had " delivered them up."-- (Testimony of David Rhea, before the Committee of Safety -Journal of (he Committee, " Die Sabbati, 10 ho., A.M., January "20th, 1776.")

• Haines was tried and sentenced, at the White Plains, on the twentyeighth or twenty-ninth of September, when his sentence of starvation probably commenced to run. Six, if not seven, days afterwards, he petitioned for food, saying " he had not wherewithal to snport hinlBelf," his jailers, in the City of New York, doing nothing more than to read his Petition, and to place it on their files, (page 117, ante.) It is not probable that his long fast was continued longer than the succeeding midnight.