The avowed purpose of that band of acknowledged "banditti"^ was "to disarm the principal tories " there," E'lst and West Chester,'] " and secure the "persons of Parson Seabury, Judge Fowler, and "Lord Underbill," three residents of Westchestercounty ; and it is said they were joined, on their way, by other parties of men, numbering about eighty, under the leadership of " Captains " Rich-

' "On the 20tVi of this inunth, sixteen respectjible inhubitants of this "town, in company witli Captain Seaus, set out from this phice, for "£««( and Went Chester, in tlie Province of New-York, to disarm the "]>rincipal tories there, and secure the persons of Pareon Seabury, " Judge Fowler, and Lord Underbill." * * » (The Connecticut Journal, No. 424, [Xcw-Huven,] Wednesday, November 29, 1775.)

Frank Moore, in his Mirii of the American Revolution, (i., SiO-S.n,) published a mutilated version of that editorial article, from the original of which the above was extracted -- the other portions of tlie latter of which will be used hereafter -- and credited it to The Pennsylvania Journal, published in Philadelphia, on the ninth of December.

2 In the preceding September, Lord Dunniore, then at Norfolk, in Vir^iinia, had hel]K'd himself to the type and printing-press of John Holt, in that Town ; and it was said of the thief and his confederates, " a few "spirited gentlemen in Norfolk, justly incensed at so flagrant a breach "of good order and the Constitution, and highly resenting the conduct "of Lord Dunmore and the Navy Gentry, who have now conmicnccd "downright Pirates and Banditti, ordered the drum to beat to arms," etc. {Ejrtract from a contemporurj) jmblication, in Force's American Archive«, Fourth Series, iii., 847.)