" That on Wednesday, the 22d day of November " last, your Memorialist was seized at a house in " West Chester where he taught a grammar school, by "a company of armed men, to the number, as he "su[)poses, of ab(jut forty ; that after being carried to " his own house and being allowed lime to send for " his horse, he was forced away on the road to Kings- " bridge, but soon meeting another company of "armed men, they joined and proceeded to East " Chester.

" That a person styled Captain Lothrop ordered " your Memorialist to be seized. That after the two "companies joined, the command appeared to your "Memorialist to be in Captain Isaac Sears, and the " whole number of men to be about one hundred. "That from East Chester your Memorialist, in com-

1 a portion of this notable paper was publislied by Hinmiin, in liis Hiittoricitl CoUeclions of the jiart snsfaiued bt/ Coinwclicut diirimj tkc War of the Remlutlmi, (pages 548-551.) Rev. E. E. Beardsley, D.D , in his Life avd Correspondence of the Jiigltt Iteverend Samuel Seahui-y, D.D., (Second Edition, 30-42,) i)ui>Iiblied as nearly a complete and accurate copy of it as those who printed liifl book would permit him to give to his readers. It is believed that, witli his kind assistance, we have the privilege of hiying an entirely accurate and complete copy of the original manuscript before our readere, from the copy of that original which was furnished to hin> by Charles J. Hoadley, the Librarian of the State Library, at Hartford, the custodian of that paper.