John Thomas, County Judge of Westchester-county, 1755-1777, and Member of the General Assembly of the Colony, representing the county of Westchester, 1743-'75, in which latter capacity the reader has already been made acquainted with him.

11 Although the project of carrying Judge Thomas away from his home, in 1775, if such a project was really entertained, was not carried out ; a similar project, in 1777, was successful ; and he was carried to New York, as Haines had been, and thrown into prison, in that City, as Haines had been, (vide pages 116, 117, ante,) and died there.

" particular place, to receive him from those that took "him.

" Philip Pinckney. " Taken and sworn before me this "first day of November, 1775,

" James Horton, Junr. " 12

The Provincial Congress received the letter and the affidavit, and placed them on file, without taking any other action which was recorded on its Journal, than the making of an Order that Colonel Budd and Gil. Budd Horton, who had evidently taken those papers to the Congress, should attend that body, at five o'clock, on the same afternoon. 13 At the appointed hour, those gentlemen made their appearance before the door of the Assembly Chamber, in the City Hall, in which the Congress was assembled in secret Session ; and when they were admitted into the Chamber, they were duly examined -- the testimony of Gil. Budd Horton, however, was evidently so entirely useless that it was not reduced to writing, and, consequently, no portion of it was entered on the Journal of the Provincial Congress. The testimony of Colonel Gilbert Budd, as it appears on that Journal, 11 is in these words :