"Captain Sears returned in company with the other gentlemen, and *' proposes to spend the winter here, unless publick business should ro- " quire his presence in New-York. -- Seabury, Underbill, and Fowler, " three of the dastardly protestors against the proceedings of the Conti- " nental Congress, and who it is believed had concerted a plan for kid- " napping Captain Sears, and conveying him on board the Asia man-of- " war, are (with the types and arms) siifely lodged in this town, Whore " it is expected Lord Underbill will have leisure to form the scheme of "a lucrative lottery, the tickets of which cannot be counterfeited ; and " Parson Seabury sufficient time to compose sermons for the next Conti- " nental fast."-- (The Connecticut Journal, No. 424, [New IIaven,] Wednesday, November 29, 1775.)

See, also, Seahnry's Memorial to tlie General Assembly of C<>nnecticul, December 20, 1775, iwfe poflc 1.36, post; and Jones's History of Xcw York during the Itevolutionary War, i., G6, 67.

- Although the instruments of the recantation of these two of the three victims do not appear in The Connecticut Journ<d, they were printed ill Holt's New-York Joumid, No. 1718, New-York, Thursday, December 7, 1775, and may be seen in Force's American Archives, IV., iii., 17('8.

I.

"Whereas I.Jonathan Fowler, Esq., one of His Majesty's Judges of "the Inferior Court for the County of Westchester, in the Province of " New- York, did, some time ago, sign a Protest against the Honourable "Continental Congress, which inconsiderate conduct I am heartily sorry " for, and do hereby promise for the future not to transgress in the view "of the people of this Continent, nor in any sense to oppose the lueae- " ures taken by the Continental Congress.