15 Frederic Philipse was taken into custody by an order from General Washington, on the ninth of August, and taken from his own house, at Yonkers, to New Kochelle, "where he was closely confined, undor " guard, for eleven days," when he was removed to Connecticut, and gave his Parole that he would not go beyond the limits of the Town of Middletown, which no one pretends he attempted to violate. Heremained there, until he was officially permitted to go into the City of New York, also on Parole. In the trick which was subsequently played on those who had been thus favored, by ordering them to return to Connecticut, but in such a manner that it was evident the Order would not

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stated that all these were " apprehended only on suspicion," 1 and that not on the personal knowledge of the General himself, but on information conveyed to him, unquestionably, by the notorious " Committee to " detect Conspiracies," who was then sitting in the City in which Head-quarters then were, 2 the same hands directed the movement which had previously directed the similar movements with which the reader is already acquainted ; and the Convention was consistent when it thankfully acknowledged the great favor which it then enjoyed, in having received so welcome and so powerful an accession to its power for persecution, as General Washington and the Army of the Continent. 3

Like the three Congressss who had preceded it, the Convention was kept busy, with matters pertaining to the Army. It authorized and superintended the enlistment of men, in the service of the State, for local purposes ; * it attended to that of men for the reinforcement of the Continental Army ; 5 and it provided for the payment of Bounties, in addition to the stipulated pay, to those who thus enlisted. 6 It resorted to Drafts, in order to fill the requisitions for men, when enlistments were tardy ; ' and where resistance was made to the Draft, force was authorized, to compel men to fill the ranks. 8 It appointed Officers of both