That a quilt in the " frame on which the daughters of your Memorialist " were at work was so cut and pierced with bayonets " as to be rendered useless. That while your Memo- "rialist was waiting for his horse, on the said 22d day " of November, the people obliged the wife of your " Memorialist to open his desk, where they examined "his papers, part of the time in presence of your " Memorialist. That he had in a drawer in the desk "three or four dollars and a few pieces of small sil- " ver. That he hath heard that only an English "shilling and three or four coppers were found in the " drawers after he was brought away. That your " Memorialist thinks this not improbable, as Jonathan " Fowler, Esq., informed him that a new beaver hat, a "silver-mounted horsewhip, and two silver spoons were "carried oft" from his house on said day. Mr. Meloy, " also, of this town, informed your Memorialist that

2 It will be observed that Mr. Seabury did not regard his captors as ''troops" or "Light Horse" or military men, of any class; he evidently considered them as what are known as" irregulars;" and, for that reason, called them only "armed men."

Horse Neck of that period is West Greenwich of this.

THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION, 1774-1783.

" he, the said Meloy, had been accused by some peopie of pointing a bayonet at the breast of a daughter ' of your Memorialist, desiring your Memorialist to ex- ' culpate him from the charge, to which request your " Memorialist replied that he was not at his house but " at his school house when the affair was said to have ' happened ; but that a daughter of your Memorialist " met him as he was brought from the school house, " and told him that one of the men had pushed a " bayonet against her breast and otherwise insulted "her; and your Memorialist remembers that when "he left his house in the morning his daughter had a ' cap on, but when she met him near the school " house she had none on and her hair was hanging " over her shoulders.