"per week por Man is not a sufficient provision for them.

"By order of tho Committee,

"John Thomas, Jun*, Chairman." 6 Journal of the Committee of Safety, "4 ho., P.M., Deer. 7, 1776." 6 Vide pages 149, 150, ante.

Samuel Howell, Uriah Travis, Ju., Jonathan Finch, John Travis, .1 nines Miller, Jim 1- , Zecheos Dible, Absolim Hutchins, Daniel Dean, Jeremiah Rozelle, John Mills, Jerediah Owen, Benjamin fretenborough, Thomas Ramond, John Broadstreot, Samuel Miller, Robert Merritt.

WESTCHESTER COUNTY.

" our time, for we grow weary of being called together "to deal with tories. That has been our whole busi- " neas ever since we have been formed as a Comniit- " tee ; it has cost me, in particular, not less than six "hundred miles riding, and I believe, at a moderate " guess, twenty or thirty dollars in cash, and I never " yet expected pay ; but I find I cant live so, and if " the tories make all the trouble, why ought they not " to pay all the cost. Gentlemen, we only want or- "' ders from you to take it. We have sent Mr. Ben. " Chapman to you, praying of you to send us some directions on this important affair, one of the mem- " bers of this Committee.

"By order of the Committee,

"Ezekiel Hawley, 1 Chairman. " June 5th, 1776."

That letter was laid before the Provincial Congress, on Saturday evening, the eighth of June ; and the Journal of that body states that it was " read and "filed," 2 the Congress itself, as will be seen in its subsequent proceedings in the matter, hesitating, in view of its atrocious propositions, to give the authority which its writer had so unblushingly solicited.