merely incideDtal allusions, left among the well-concealed records of those times, to say nothing of those more startling evidences which went, unrecorded, into the graves of those who had been thus plundered and outraged, when the latter were carried to their last earthly homes, to show that the Drakes and the Thomases, the Odells and the Martlings, the Lockwoods and the Dutchers, and those who were associated with them, "patriotically "supporting what was called " the glorious cause of Liberty," were experts in ruthless barbarism, and entirely worthy of thecrowns of infamy which history has awarded to more distinguished, but not more accomplished, inquisitors and despots.

The publication of this barbarous enactment was followed, immediately, by active preparations for persecution, by those, in Westchester-county, who were engaged in promoting the cause of the Rebellion ; and they promptly reported to the Provincial Congress, for what purpose is very evident, the following list of those, in that County, who were especially obnoxious to them " Col. Phillips,^

" Joseph Harris,

"James Harris,

"Major Brown's two sons

" Isaac and Josiah that

"lives at home,' " Lyon Miller,*

Bartholomew Hains,* Mr. Duncan and Brown

at Marroneck, Capt. Joshua Purdy,* Jeremiah Travess, Solomon Fowler,' Joshua Purdy,*

in Connecticut, as ifl well known, were too nearly akin in scntiuient to the Towns in Westchester-county to have supplied rcftj^'cUihl^ men, for 6uch a questionable service ; and specimens of those of Connecticut who were so zealous in tlie support of the Rebellion, in New York, when there was no armed forces before them-- those, from that Colony were not 80 zealous, on the northern frontier and in Canada, at Kips Bay and in Neiv Jereey, when an armed enemy was either before or behind them -- might have been seen in those who were led by Waterbury and by Sears, by Wooster and by Webb, of whom and of whose peculiarly " New Eng- "land Ideas," concerning the laws of mcuw et (num, history has left abundant evidence.