The Minutes of the Committee also indicate that on the twenty-seventh of June, 1776, an Order was made by that body, " That Summonses issue against the "following persons as inimical to the Cause and "rights of America, returnable on Wednesday the " third day of July next at ten o'clock in the forenoon " of the same day, viz : Frederick Philipse and " Samuel Merritt, which said Summonses signed by "' all the members present af were delivered to the "Secretary with directions to deliver them to the " messenger to be served." 5
The Summons thus issued was served on Frederic Philipse, at Philipsborough, the present City of Yonkers, on Saturday evening, the twenty-ninth of June; and, on the following Tuesday, [July 2, 1776,] he made the following reply to the Committee :
1 Vide page 78, ante.
2 List of Westchester Oownty Tories : Historical Manuscripts, etc. ; Mis. cellaneous Papers, xxxiv., 193.
» Vide pages 168-171, ante.
4 Minutes of the Committee to Detect Conspiracies, "Die Sabbati, 12 ho., "June 15, 1776:" Historical Manuscripts, etc., Miscellaneous Papers, xxxiv., 307, and xxx., 156.
5 Minutes of the Committee to Detect Conspiracies, " Thursday, A.M., "June 27, 1776:" Historical Manuscripts, etc., Miscellaneous Papers, xxxv., 485.
"Philipsborough, July 2, 1776. '' Gentlemen :
" I was served on Saturday evening last with a " paper signed by you, in which you suggest that " you are authorized by the Congress to summon cer- " tain persons to appear before you, whose conduct " had been represented as inimical to the rights of "America, of which number you say I am one.