At that time, and, indeed, until 1818, the Government of Connecticut, under her Charter, like that of Rhode Island, was based on the Sovereignty of the King of Great Britain ; and the lawlessness of the Rebellion had not been permitted to disturb the forms and formalities of cither her Executive or Legislative or Judicial Departments of Colonial Government -- adroitly securing the monopoly of that Government in the hands of the com[)aratively few by whom it was held under the Royal Charter of 1661, no matter what the result of the Rebellion might be-- and all these were being carried on, in the several long-established forms, nominally in the name of the Sovereign. Knowing these facts, Mr. Seabury is said to have apj)lied to the Magistrates, in New Haven, for protection and redress, since he was held in captivity, in that Town, by no pretense of legal jirocess nor by any other authority than the individual will of the ruf-
" which would be printed with the types taken from Mr. Holt, of Vir- "ginia. '
'•As witness my hand :
"Jonathan Fowler.
"New-Haven, November 29, 1775."
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"Whereas I. Nathaniel CndcrhiU, of Westchester, in the Province of " New- York, did, somil' time ago, sign a Protest against the Resolves of "the noiiourable C'ontinental.Congri'ss, which inconsiderate conduct I "am heartily sorry for, and do hereby proniiee, for the future, not to "transgress in the view of the pt^ople of this Continent, nor, in any "sense, to oppose the measures taken by the Continental Congress.