Philip Pinkney, 2 " (who had given- very full information, to some of the " Committee, of the plot, and had offered to swear to " it, provided he was brought by the Committee by " an appearance of force, and had engaged not to be " out of the way,) upon being sent for, by some of the " guard attending the Committee, was not to be " found ; whereupon some of the Committee, by order " of the whole, waited upon Mr. Pinkney, who, after '' refusing to come before the Committee, and after a " great deal of equivocation, made the enclosed affi- " davit, before a Magistrate, which we have reason to " think is not the whole truth ; for which reasons we

1 Journal of the Provincial Congress, " Die Martie, 9 ho., A.M;, October '24th, 1775."

2 There is not the slightest mention of thin evidently tricky Philip, in any of the contemporary records with which we have any acquaintance, except in this instance ; and we suspect he was that loyalist, Philip, who fled to Nova Scotia, at the close of the War, of whom Bolton made mention. He was evidently well-fitted for a "Cow-boy ;" aud, very probably, he was one.

Bolton, in his History of WeslcJtester-counly, (original edition, i ., 155, 156 ; the same, second edition, i., 248, 249.) gave a sketch and pedigree of the family.

" refer you to Colonel Budd 3 and Mr. Gill. Budd " Horton, 4 with whom Mr. Pinkney has conversed.