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. Johnson was Chairman, was appointed for an entirely ditTereut purpose ; and that the Session of the General Assembly which next succeeded that which was adjourned on the fourteenth of December, 1775, was not commenced until the ninth of Jlay, 1776. {HiMorical CuUecfious of the jiart Aitstaiurdhif ('on»erttcnt in the liar of the Iteioliition, 198, 200.) (ieneral Peter Force, who diligently reprinted all the Journals of the General Assemhlii, in his elaborate American Archives, made no mention of a Session of the General .Vsiicmbly, between that which was dissolved on the fourteenth of December, 1775, and the ninth of May, 1776, as stated by Hinman.

What mockerj- there was in that grace of the banditti, therefore, when it favored its captive with permission to memori.alize an Aiisembly which had been dissolved, six days before the Memorial was written.

3 Memorial of Sanutel Seahurtf to the General Anaevihly of Connecticut, December 20, 1775 ; Samuel Seabury to the Venerable Society, " New-Tork, " December 211, 1776 " ; Jones's History of Nck York durimj the Revolutionary War, i., 67, 68.