- This remark very clearly indicated that, when Gocifrey made these violent remarks, he was smarting from wrongs already inflicted on himself or on those who were dear to him, by those of the revolutionary faction in Westchester-county or by those, from Connecticut, under General Wooster or others, who had come into the County, for the support of the Rebellion.

"as in the hands of the Congress or Committee ; that " they would see if they were not all cut down, in a " fortnight, at farthest ; that he wished the men-of- " war would come along the Sound ; and that he wish- "edthey had raised their Company, three months " ago, for then the matter would have been settled "before that time; and further this Deponent saith " not.

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" Sworn the 28th September, 1775, ) " before me, i " GiLBT. Drake."

There was no other evidence than this evidently spitefully-made affidavit; and it is said Godfrey was "convicted," on this testimony, of "denying the au- "thority and speaking contemptuously of the Con- "gresses and the Committee of the County "' -- nothing appears to have been done on the charge, by Eunice, that he had used other and, apparently, more offensive words. He was ordered to be disarmed ; but the judgment was returned unsatisfied, since he had concealed his ai"ms and ammunition ; and the Committee stated that it was highly improbable that they could be found. It was determined, however, that he was "a very dangerous man;" and, for its own peace sake as well as for its own safety, that very zealous Committee determined to send him to the Provincial Congress, in the City of New York, in order that that body might employ its more practised hand, in the further prosecution of him.