Among those who were thus selected to face the ordeal of that Committee, in which the great professional experience of John Morin Scott was combined with the savage coldness of Alexander McDougal and John Brasher, were John Fowler, Peter Valentine, William Lounsberry, James Lounsberry, Joseph Purdy, William Armstrong, William Sutton, John Flood, Isaac Purdy, John Gedney, John Haines, Joshua Gedney, Josiah Burrell, William Haines, James Haines, Junior, Thomas Haines, Isaac Gedney, Isaac Valentine, William Dicken, Isaac Valentine, Junior, and Cornelius McCartney -- the latter a schoolmaster, in Yonkers-- and several of these were subjected to great hardships and cruel ty ( in the confinement to which they were subjected. 5

On the thirty-first of January, 1776, the Committee of Safety directed Jacamiah Allen to remove those of the guns which were near Kingsbridge, as well as those which were near John Williams's, "to the " larger parcel at Valentine's, so as to have them all " brought together, for the greater convenience of "guarding them and drilling out the spikes;" and/ at the same time, the Committee agreed to give Allen twenty shillings apiece for clearing and unspiking the whole of the guns and for removing those at Williams's ; but those at Kingsbridge were to be removed at the expense of the Commitee. 6

6 There are so many entries, in the Journal of the Comm'ittee of Safely] concerning the spiking of the guns and those" who were supposed to have been interested in the transaction, that we cannot pretend to refer to them, separately. The reader is referred to the body of the JouYnal; during January and February, 1776.