• 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.

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the Asia, man-of-war, then lying in the stream. 1 Captain Vandeput of that ship, treated him kindly ; gave him an order for some oars ; and evidently found a way to restore him to his home, in Eye. He was there, during the same month, engaged in " getting " out a parcel of oars for the man-of-war,'' in New York, 2 declaring, at the same time, that he " was " determined to have satisfaction on some particular "persons," evidently in retaliation for the wrongs which those persons had inflicted on him. 8

The subsequent career of that unfortunate victim of Westchester-county's "'patriotism" would afford material for a romance, as it has done that for dispassionate history. Duriug the succeeding December [1775], in company with " one Palmer " -- said to have been of Mamaroneck -- he loaded the Sloop Polly and Ann, which he had recently purchased from Isaac Gedney, with Beef, Pork, and other Provisions ; and, taking on board three quarter-casks of Madeira Wine, a package of Turnips, and other articles, all. of them for General Howe, and other packages for General Kuggles, Mr. Willard, and Mrs. Ann Wood, together with Isaac Gedney, Bartholomew Haines (who was his cousin) Mr. Palmer (who was one of the owners of the cargo), and seven other persons, passengers, he sailed for Boston.