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.

< ncsides the unceasing attempts to encroach on the territory of New Y'ork, and, in other ways, to invade the Rights of the Colonists, in that Colony, which Connecticut and men from Connecticut were constantly making, Isaac Scars, on the occasion now under notice, with the evident purpose of throwing all the titles of properties, in New Y'ork, and all the domestic and business relations, therein, into confusion and uncert«iinty, in order to make the inroads of depredators more certain of success, " intimated his design speedily to revisit this Province with a more " numerous body of the Connecticut Rioters, and to take away the " Records of the Province." (Governor Tryon to the ICarl of Iiartmonth, No. 22, "On Bo.\Rn the Ship Ditciiess of Gordon Nkw-Yokk IIab- " BoVR, G"> Dec' 1775.")