"Ordered, That the said Godfrey Haines be sent, " manacled or fettered, under guard, to Ulster-county "Jail; and that Colonel McDougal be requested to " procure an Officer, with a proper Guard of the " Militia or Minute-men of this City, to guard the " said prisoner and the other prisoners heretofore " ordered to jail, to Kingston, in Ulster-county." 8 At the same time, a letter was written to the Ul-<tercounty Committee, " praying" that body '* that very " particular directions for keeping him in safe cus- " tody, to prevent his escape, be given as to Haines,

«This statement is based on the Affidavit of James Webb, one of the passengers; on the Proceedings of the Committee of Safety of New- Jersey, '■with respect to those Prisoners;" on the Supplementary statement of James Webb ; on the Testimony vf David Rhea ; and on the Statement* of Major Thomas Henderson of the Monmouth-county Minute men, who conveyed the prisoners to New York.

6 The reader will not fail to obperve that the Committee carefully concealed the notable enactment of the Provincial Congress, of the first of the preceding September, (vvle pages 111-113, ante.)

» The Committee made no mention of the fact that he had, then, been k-jpt without food or water, a full week ; and that, since his prayer for food had been disregarded by the Provincial Congress, he was compelled either to force his way out of the prison or to starve, (vide page 118, ante.)