History of Westchester County, New York, Vol. I
He impeached the bona Jide of the " enthusiasm " of the protestants, at the Plains ; but he " confessed," and only those who are guilty •'confess," that his own companions, those who had given the much coveted place and authority to him, were also noisy, from the effects of otlier Spirits than that of loyalty to the King -- inasmuch as each of the two factions, at the Plains, claimed to have been noisy as well as loyal, the author of the reply had little reason for making such an objection, unless he desired to secure to his own faction the credit of making all the noise and of expressing all the loyalty which were then produced, by any one. He ob-
1 Mr. Seabury; in hia Memorial lo the General Assembly of Connecticut, presented on the twentieth of December, 1775, in reply to one of the four accusations which had been made against him, expressly stated that he had not, at that time, written any "pamphlets and newspapers "against the liberties of America ;" which effsctually disproves much that has been written, on that subject, by modern bibliographers.
2" This family are so remarkabU for ^enlarging the truth,^ that all "stories suspected of not being true are known throughout the County " of Westchester, in the City of Xew York, and on the westernmost part "of Long Island, by the name of ' Morrisanias.'" -- (Jones's History of Xew York during the Sevolulionary War, i., 140.)
jected, also, that the titles of those who had signed the Declaration and Protest were appended to the names of those to whom they respectively belonged ; but a reference to the official report of the proceedings of that Meeting, signed by himself and evidently from his own pen, to which reference has been made, will show to any one that the specific titles of " Mr. , " " Esq., " " Captain," " Major," and " Colonel," were added to eighteen of the twenty-six names which that report contained -- indeed, he had given the distinctive title of "Colonel," to himself, in three different places, in that report ; and that, too, without a word of apology.