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 :

"Col. Gilbert Budd and Gilbudd Horton, from " Westchester County, attending according to order, " were called in, and examined ; and the examination "of Gilbert Budd was taken in writing, and filed, and " is as follows, to wit :

" Gilbert Budd, of Mamaroneck, says that the tories " are getting the upper hand of and threaten them, "daily, and have injured their private property, by " throwing down stone fences and cropping his horses' "tails and manes; that Philip Pinckney told him, " last Sunday, that he was in company, on the twenty - " fifth of October last, with a man who told him that "there would be bad times in Mamaroneck, before "long; and said that some of the people of "the place would be taken off; that he, Pinck- " ney, asked the man that told him, how they were to " be taken off; he answered, that they expected a ten- "der, in the harbour, in a few days; and that she " would send barges on shore, in order to carry the "people off; that he, Pinckney, further asked the " man, where they were to be carried to, and he an- " swered, ' To Gage.' Mr.