I Minutes of the Committee to Detect Conspiracies, " Die Sabbati, 12 ho., "Juno 15, 1776."

8 The Minutes of tlte Committee, during the brief period which elapsed between the date of its organization and that of the dissolution of the Provincial Congress -- which, also, by all parliamentary and statutory law, dissolved the Committee which was only its agent -- are scattered, in various places, and generally in manuscript, and unprinted. Of the Minutes of the Meetings referred to in the text -- and, in this place, we do not propose to refer to any of subsequent dates -- carefully made copies, from the scattered originals, have been examined, in every instance.

9 Jones's History of New York during the Revolutionary War, ii., 296.

On that day, Judge Jones, who had been summoned before the Committee and had come to the City of New York, to answer the Summons, found only Gouverneur Morris ; and by the latter, he was paroled and permitted to return to his home, in Queens-county.

10 An anonymous Information, forwarded by John ThomaB, Junior, Chairman, " In Committee of Safety, White Plains, June 23, 1776," among the papers of the Committee, of the same day.

II Minutes of the Committee to Detect Conspiracies, "Thursday, A.M., "June 27, 1776."

12 Those who are interested in the methods of this Committee, the subsequently much eulogized Chief-justice of the State of New York and Chief-justice of the United States being the presiding officer, may see the forms of its Summons and its Parole, in Jones's History of New York during the Revolutionary War, ii., 295, 296 ; the forms of its Warrants, in its Mimties of June 19, 22, and 24, 1776 ; and those of its various Bonds, in its Minutes of June 24, 25, 26, and 27, 1776.