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.

13 Journal of the Provincial Congress, "Die Veneris, 10 ho., A.M., November 3d, 1776."

14 Journal of tlie Provincial Congress, " Die Veneris, 5 ho., P.M., Novem- "ber3, 1775."

WESTCHE8TEE COUNTY.

" man intimated to him that Mr. Gilbert Budd" [the witness] " and Mr. Samuel Townsend 1 were the men " that were to be taken off; and that there was another " that they would have, at all events ; that Pinckney " told Budd that he asked the man, who the other " man was that was to be taken off; that the man an- " swered him that Judge Thomas was the man, who "they would have if it cost them the lives of fifty " men ; that Pinckney told the said Mr. Budd that "there was a number of his, Budd's, neighbours, who " stood ready to assist the tender, in order to take "them; that Mr Budd asked Pinckney if he knew " who those neighbours were ; he atiswered that one "of them was William Lounsberry ' l and one, Isaac "Gedney, Junr., and all Sutton's men, alluding to "some hired servants of Sutton's; 3 that Pinckney " said he came as a friend, and advised Mr. Budd to " keep out of the way, for that he did not think it safe " for him to sleep in his house, one night.