The Governor, also, disregarded his demand ; and when the banditti who continued to hold him, a captive, in the midst of that Capital-town of the Colony, consented that he should memorialize the General Assembly of the Colony, which does not appear to have been, then, in Session,'^ no benefit to the memorialist, from tlie Legislature of the Colony, could have been intended."

While these proceedings were in progress, in Connecticut, the revolutionary authorities, in New York, were almost etiually unmindful of what was due from them, in the protection of the individual Colonists from the aggressions of their neighbors, and in the support of the autonomy of the Colony, which those from Connecticut were beginning to threaten^ -- the Colonial Government and the armed vessels which

2 We are not insensible of the fact that it is said that Mr. Seaburj 's Mtmoriiil was laid before the General Assembly, and referred to a Special Committee of seven members, of which William Samuel Johnson was the Chairman, and unto whom the Letter from the Provincial Congress of New York had been a'r.'ady referred, (Bearilsley's Life ayid Cnrreapondcncc of Itt. Itev. Samx(cl ,Se<i6i<n/, , 43 ;) but in his recital of the circumstances, in liis letter to the Venerable Society, on the twenty-ninth of December, 1776, Mr. Seabury made mention of nothing else than of his "puting in a Memorial to the Generjil Assem- "bly," {Unit, 46 ;) and Mr. Ilinman, who was Secretary of State, with the original Joiinuils before him, in his carefully-made synopsis of the doings of the General .\esenibly, from the opening of the Jlay Session, 1774, until the close of the February Ses.-iion 1778, stated that the Special Session of the General .\ssend»ly, which was assembleil by special order of the Governor, on the fourteenth of December, 1775, closed its business, and was adjourned by Proclamation, on the same day ; that the Special Committee of which Mr.