If such should be the case, we must " entreat your friendly interposition for his immediate discharge; the " more especially as, considering his ecclesiastical character, which, per- " haps, is venerated by many friends to Liberty, the severity that has "been used towards him may be subject to misconstructions prejudicial "to the common cause, and the more effectually to restrain such incur- "sions which, if repeated, may be productive of mischief of the most se- " rious consequence ; and, as wo would be exceedingly sorry to give " room for jealousies among individuals in your Colony that we are "desirous to damp the spirit of Liberty or countenance any of its "enemies among us, we propose to apply to the Continental Congress, " not by way of complaint, but for such a general regulation, on this "subject, as may as well prevent such jealousies as any future incur- "sious by the inhabitants of either Colony into the other, for the appre- " bending or punishing any enemy or sujiposed enemy to the cause of "Liberty, without application to the Congress, the Committee of Safety, "or the Committee of the County within the jurisdiction of which such "persons shall reside, or command of the Continent<il Congress.
" We are, Sir, with the utmost respect and esteem, " Your mo. obt. servta.
" By order of the Provincial Congress. "To the HoDble Jona. Tkvmuill, "Nath'i. Woobhvll, I'ret'l.
" Gov. of the Colony of C'oH^^lC^^c«^."
^ It is proper to say, in this connection, that th« insincerity of the Pro Tincial Congress was never more boldly presented than in its Order concerning the disposition which was to bo made of the letter which it had just ordered to be written to the Governor of Connecticut, in the matter of the raid of Connecticut's rutTians -- instead of ordering it to be forwarded tu the Governor, it " Ordekec, That the said letter be engrossed and signed " by the President, so as to lie ready to be transmitted, when niREixEn." (Journal of the Provincial Congrat, "Die Uartia, 3 ho., P.