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.

1 Historical 3lannscripts^ etc. ; Mitccllaneous Papers, xxxiv., 193.

- Colonel Frederic Philipse, of Youkers and Sleepy llollow, Member of the General Assembly, already made known to the reader. He was exiled ; and his property sequestrated, confiscated, and sold.

^ Isaac and Josiah Brown were arrested ; thrown into the Prison at the White Plains ; and subsequently released on condition that they should board with William Miller, Deputy Chairman of the County Committee, at their own expense, instead of at their own homes,

' Lyon Miller was First Lieutenant in the Harrison Precinct Company of Militia, reorganized under the enactment of the Provincial Congress, in .\ugust, 1775.

5 Bartholomew Haines was arrested and thrown into Prison at the AVhite Plains. His name will be seen, very frequently, in the following