" Personally appeared before me, James Horton, "Junior, one of His Majesty's Justices of the Peace " in and for said County, ' Philip Pinkney, of full age, "who deposeth and saith, that on Wednesday, the "twenty-fifth day instant, 8 being in company, he "heard one say that Godfrey Haines was determined " to have satisfaction on some particular persons, 9 and "that there was a tender expected, to take them off, "instantly; and that this Deponent was asked if he " would assist in taking off Judge Thomas, 10 private- "ly ; and that they were determined to have him, if " possible " ; and that there was a person to be in a

1 The puny faction which, with the aid of the military power, was exercising such a terrible authority, in Westchester-county, here confessed its weakness, when unsupported by that power.

2 See page 108, ante.

3 See page 107, ante.

4 Jesse Hunt was Sherilfof Westch eater-county, 1781-1785.

5 M kali Townsend was a member of the County Committee of 1775-'6, and its Secretary ; he was one of the Minute-men, at White Plains, in February, 1776 ; and he was in command of a Company, in the following Summer. He evidently left Westchester-connty, soon afterwards, as he was in the Assembly of the State, in 1779-80, representing Cumberland-county.

6 Anthony Miller was Second Lieutenant of the Scarsdale and White Plains Company of Militia, in 1775, and Captain of the same Company, in 1776;

7 James Horton, Junior, was proscribed as a Tory, and ordered to be arrested in June, 1776, (Historical Manuscript ; etc. : Miscellaneous Papers, xxx., 156.)