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Rh army. That Master Oliver Wolcott had been given charge of the transportation and transformation, was sufficient guarantee the work would be done without loss of time.

Hardly had this information been given, when a messenger from the president of the Sons of Liberty arrived, with orders for Masters Dean and Lamb to join their associates at the regular meeting place, to the end that all, or as many as could be spared from their business, should take coaches for White Plains, where the Provincial Congress was assembled, because on this same afternoon the Declaration would be read to the members of that body for their approval.

Although the Congress at Philadelphia had adopted the resolutions of independence, it was necessary that the legislative body of each colony should pass upon it, and the members of the association to which Masters Dean and Lamb belonged, were determined that the law-makers of New York should be emphatic in their expressions of sympathy with the sentiments contained therein.

Mistress Lamb and Sarah remained guests in the Dean household until the maker of mathematical instruments returned to his home, and the ladies had but little time to reprove the girls for what had been done in aid of the spy, since all the women of the neighborhood called to