1 Journal of the Provincial Outgrew, " DieMartis, P.M., May 28, 1776 ;" the same, "Die Jovis, 9 ho., A.M., May 30, 1776 ; " the same, " Die Martis, " 9 ho., A.M., June 4, 1776 ; " the same, " Die Jo™, 9 ho., A.M., June "6, 1776; "etc.

2 Journal of the Provincial Congress, "Die Luna;, 4 ho., P.M.. June 3, "1776 ; " the same, " Die Jovis, 9 ho., A.M., June 6, 1776 ;" the same, "Thursday morning, June 20, 1776 ;" the same, " Friday afternoon, "June 21, 1776;" etc.

3 Henry Dawkins, accused of counterfeiting, was ironed so heavily, within the prison, that he was reported to have been " injured by his irons "so that his legs swell ; " and Henry Youngs, accused of the same offense, also confined in the Jail, was so much injured by the irons with which he was additionally secured, that it became necessary to remove them. (Journal of the Provincial Congress, " Friday morning, 9 ho., A.M., "June, 1776;" the same, "Tuesday morning, New York, June 11, "1776.")

4 About the middle of June, 1776, mobs were raised by John Lasher, John and Joshua Hett Smith, Peter Van Zandt, and other leaders of the extreme revolutionary faction, in the dry of New York, by whom several citizens who were of the Opposition, but not of the Eebellion, were seized by these revolutionary "patriots," who placed them on "sharp "rails," and carried them on men's shoulders, around the City, amidstthe huzzas of the mob. The progress of one of these parties was said to have been stopped by General Putnam ; but not until the victim had sustained serious injuries, (Jones's History of New York during the Revolutionary War, i., 101-103 ; de Lancey's Notes on Jones's History, i., 596-598.)