History of Westchester County, New York, Vol. I
He undoubtedly knew that he was among those who entertained opinions and preferences which were similar in their character to those which he had declared ; but the latter may have been less willing to declare what they preferred and what their opinions were, concerning the doings of those who were, then, aspiring to the Government of the Colony -- he was, however, less fortunate than they, in the expression of his opinions in the presence of one who, either through ignorance or malevolence, was mean enough to betray him.
Samson had his Delilah ; and Godfrey had his Eunice. Of Delilah, not an Israelite, we know that she betrayed her lover to his enemies, to the oppressors of his kindred and his people : of Eunice, an ignorant, unmarried woman ; unable to write her own name and, probably, unable to read what others had written-- just such a tool, indeed, as suited the purposes of such men as, then, manipulated her spitefullytold information -- and, evidently, a daughter or sister or other kinswoman of the man under whose roof and in the enjoyment of whose hospitality Godfrey was.
- \t the marriage of Gabriel Purdy to Charity Purdy, at the White Plains, on the twenty eighth of March, 1775, a large coiniutny, forty-seven in number, was assembled, among whom tliirty-eeven were Purdys, "and not asingle Whig among them." -- {Ririiujton's Xew-York Gazetteer, No. 105, Xew-Yokk, Thursday, April 20, 1775.)
3 Petition lo Die Procincial Congreu, "CiTV Ball, October y» 4th, "1775"-- page 117, poet.