" 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. Budd told Pinckney that "Gage was not there; he answered, 'To Gage's " 'Army ; ' that Pinckney said he asked the man, who " the men were that were to be taken off; that the

12 The entire prostration of the Colonial Government, in New York, and its entire helplessness to protect the Colonists from the outrages to which they were subjected by the promoters of the Rebellion, is nowhere more clearly seen than in this appearance of one of those who were in rebellion, before one of the King's Justices of the Peace, to make an official affidavit concerning a plot to carry away from hiB home, one of the leaders in that Rebellion, by those who were not in rebellion.