June 23d 1776
were the chief of the Conspirators both of
these had receivd Money from
Governour
Tryon to buy Arms & pay their infernal
Tools - they had gone So far according to all
accounts as to arrange the Conspirators
in to Companies & to appoint their Officers,
whom they Swore by the Bible to be true
& Faithfull to the King.
but now both
Forbes &
the Mayor are under confinement
& the General hath a list of
their Names
of all the Conspirators, but none are known
before they are taken into custody;
Parties of the Independant Companies
of the City are gone into
Long Island in
Search of Some of the Rogues who have
taken themselves into the Woods to Schreen
themselves from the Punishment they
deserve--
24 [June 1776] After the
Party had finished their Work
we took a walk as far as
Powles Hooke. Then
Lieut
Wheeler went over to
York but Lieut
Makepeace & myself went back as far as
Bergen in a Stage Waggon,
then visited
Several of the Dutch People, & at Night
we went back to Mr Dowes.
25 [June 1776] I took the
Party to their Work in the
Morning, & Lieut Wheeler returnd & gave
much the Same account of the above Plot as
we had before receiv'd -- in the afternoon
Mr Schuyler came to see us, & Spent a very
sociable Visit we treated him with Madeira Wine Grog &c
but to our surprise he Settled the whole Reckoning himself
before we could know.