The former was charged with warning a No. [number] of people to appear at Peekskill, & with appearing & embodying in arms to oppose the Congress & Committee. - The latter was charged with insti gating a no. [number] of people to oppose the measures of the Congress & Committee, & being the means of embodying a No. [number] of men in arms at Peekskill, (himself with them) on the 6th instant, to rescue some persons who were taken before the sub Committee of Cortlandt's manor. - Thirteen of the Committee being sworn to try each of the above charges, the committee found the Travises *severally* guilty. - But few of the people who collected at Peekskill had fire arms the most being armed with clubs, (wh [which] the Committee suppose to be a method taken by Jeremiah Travis to evade the resolutions of the Congress.) - This occasions a doubt in some of the Committee whether the Travises come with in the meaning of the 4th clause of the resolves of the Provincial Congress of the 1st of Septr. last, passed respecting taking up arms. &c. &c." …p. 95. / Fairfield & Reading Tories. p. 114.
Letter fr. Isaac Gedney (dated "White Plains Jail, 20th April 1776") to the Chairman of the Provincial Congress New York. "I have been in confinement near 3 months &c." - p. 115. / Col. Holmes name? James? p. 121 -
Col. Saml. Drake - to - the President of the Provincial Congress, stating that Col. Waterbury had taken a No. [number] of guns from the Tories in West Chester County & that Col. Drake's whig minute minute men being, many of these desti tute of arms, wish to have the muskets - Letter dated "New York, Feby 16, 1776." signed/ "Samuel Drake, col. of the Minute Regiment in West Chester County." pp.128, 189 / On the night of January 30th, 1775, Col.