In April Term, 1776, several rebel soldiers were indicted for "some Petty Larcenies, tried, convicted, and punished by order of the "Court without any interfereuce of the Military; their Officers at- " tended tho trials, beard the evidence, and upon their conviction declared that amplo justice was doue them, and thanked the Judge for " his candor and impartiality, during tho course of the trials." -- Jones's History of New York duriuy the Revolutionary War, i., 137.

Judge Jones, the writer of the above paragraph, was, at that time, one of the Judges of the Supreme Court of .the Colony, and personally acquainted w itli the facto stated. His practice was, in matters in which he was personally concerned, to mention no name ; and the context certainly seems to indicate that the Trial was in the City of New York ; but the learned Editor of that reinarkahle work, has stated, in tho Index, (ii., 691.) undoubtedly on competent authority, that the Court referred to was held at the White Plains, in Westchester-county ;■ and that the presiding Judge of that Court was Thomas Jones, the writer of the work from which this paragraph was taken.

WESTCHESTEK COUNTY.

have been unwittingly, to establish as the formal enactments of that revolutionary body. 1

As we have said, the letter which Ezekiel Havvley, in behalf of the Committee of the Town of Salem, wrote to the Provincial Congress, was laid before that body, on Saturday evening, the eighth of June; when it was read and filed. 2 On the following morning, [Sunday, June 9, 1775,] the Congress directed the following answer to be made to that remarkable letter :