Numbers were taken ; some were wounded ; and a few were killed -- all that, too, on a peaceful, unarmed, passive community ; unable to defend itself, because it had been stripped of its arms ; in advance of any adverse movement ; and only to promote the individual purposes of a handful of ambitious and reckless men : all that, too, in the name of " Liberty " and the " Rights of Man." (Journalof the Provincial Congress, "Sunday afternoon, June 30, 1776 ;" General Washington to the President of Congress, " New York, June 28, 1776 ; " " Jones's History of New York during the Revolutionary War, i., 108, 109.)

3 Journal of the Provincial Congress, "D'e Lunfe, 9 ho., A.M., May 27, " 1776 ; " the same, " Tuesday morning, New York, June 11, 1776 ; " etc.

3 The Prowncial Congress to the Committee of Queens-county, " In Provincial Congress, New- York, A.M., June 11, 1776 ; " Journal of the Provincial Congress, " Thursday morning, June 27, 1776 ; " the same, "Die Mercurii, 9 ho., A.M., June 5, 1776."

4 Journal of the Provincial Congress, "Saturday, P.M., June 1, 1776 ; " the same, "Die Martis, 9 ho., A.M., June 4, 1776 ;" the same, " Die Mer- " curii, 9 ho., A. M., June 5, 1776 ; " the same, " Die Jovis, 9 ho., A M., " June 6, 1776 ; " the same, " Die Lunas, 9 ho., A.M., June 10, 1776."