Under these circumstances, I considered that my dissenting from the practice of my brethren would not only set me up as a single mark of vengeance-- and as every appearance of disunion among the clergy might be disadvantageous to the Church hereafter ; viewing the matter in this light, I thought it best to comply with the general practice of the clergy. On the 21st of Oct. I was made a prisoner and sent to the Court of Fishkill as an enemy to the Independence of America, when (except that sometimes 1 was indulged to visit my family a few days) I was kept on parole through the winter at my own expense, which was very great. The shocking insolence and inhumanity of the Rebels toward the friends of Government qf which I was a daily spectator, rendered the place of my imprisonment very disagreeable ; and the cruel treatment which my family received from them in my absence, was exceedingly distressing. They had taken me from a wife and four small children the two youngest not sixteen months old, which was my whole family -- and during my confinement they forbade people coming to my house, and they threatened all that should assist the family in any respect ; by this means they Buffered much for want of free intercourse with their friends, those that would gladly have assisted them, not daring to do it unless when it might be done privately. In this situation I know not how they could have long subsisted, had it not been