Thomas Merritt was arrested and taken before the Committee of Safety, in the City of New York, "on information of persons from "Westchester-county, that he had declared he had seen people casting ''great quantities of Bullets, to kill the Whigs; and that he knew "where great quantities of those Bullets were"-- a trumped-up charge, which was so entirely transparent that, after his accusers and their witnesses had been examined by the Committee of Safety, whose fondness of persecution was known to all, Merritt was promptly discharged.

These may serve as specimens of the whole number.

* Benjamin Hunt and Oakley, of Eastchester, were arrested because they had taken some Sheep, Pigs, and Poultry, to Brooklyn, said to have been for the Asia. William Weyman was arrested for having

assisted in taking some produce to the Asia. Dr. Azor Betts, of

, was arrested for violent words of denunciation, when "the Congress arbitrarily broke down his business, as an inoculator for the Smallpox, and deprived him of the means of support for his family. Godfrey Haines, Bartholomew Haines, Isaac Gedney, and -- -- Palmer, .all of them of Rye or Mamaroneck, are already known to the reader, in the sad story of the Sloop Polly and Ann, {page 119, ante ;) and James and William Lounaberry ; Isaac, John, and Joshua Gedney ; John Fowler ; Isaac and Peter Valentine ; Isaac, Joseph, and Joshua Purdy ; William Armstrong ; William Sutton ; John Flood ; Jaines, John, Thomas, and William Haines ; and Joshua Burrell, besides several others, were artreated, while they were prisoners. 5 They were plundered of their Arms, again and again, sometimes by Connecticut-men called in by the County Committee 6 or by the brutal General Charles Lee, T and sometimes by orders from the Provincial Congress or its Committee of Safety ; ° levies were made on her Militia, for the construction of the defensive works in the City of New York ; v and two Companies of the new Regiments in the New- York Line of the Continental Army were assigned to be raised in Westchester-county. 10 It is also noteworthy, as a portion of the history of that period, that Westchester-county afforded the first evidence of the alteration of a Provincial Bill of Credit -- one of the last emission, for five dollars, having been altered so that it appeared to have been one of ten dollars. 11