The *sd [said]* God: =frey Haines lately broke *the* Jail of this City & escaped - He is so dangerous that he ought to be kept in safe custody & close jail. - After escaping from the New York Jail, he set off to navigate a vessel loaded with provisions to supply the Ministerial army & Navy at Boston &c. - Ordered that the said Godfrey Haines be sent manacled or fettered to Ulster County Jail, under guard, to be there confined in safe & secure custody, in close Jail. &c. p. 263. / Jany 24th - Lieut Allan returned with Wm Lounsberry in custody &c. p. 264 / "January 26, 1776. - John Gedney of New Rochelle yeoman being sworn & *examd* before a Sub-Committee of the Committee of West Chester, says "that on Wednes. =day, last week, William Lounsberry was at his house about 9 or 10 o'clock at night in company with one Joshua Gedney, son of Isaac Gedney at Rye & 4 others unknown to him the deponent & yt [yet] they went from his house he knew not where, but returned a little before daylight the next morning." p. 271 / On the 27th of Jany '76, Joshua Gedney was sent in custody to the Committee of Safety of New York. p. 271. / "January 29th 1776." - "William Lounsberry, examd [examined] before the Committee of safety for New York, says that he, Joshua Gedney, Josiah Burrell, William Haines, James Haines junior + Thomas Haines, went to disarm the cannon with sledges.
That they had 2 sledges with them that they got one sledge out of *Flandereau's* shop without the consent of the owner & the other out of Guion's shop at New Rochelle: - Then he dropped the design of spiking the guns bec. he found it wd [would] be troublesome & thought that other wd [would] do as well.