" 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.

" Your Memorialist, also, begs leave further to ' represent that ■ after he had been eight or ten days ' at New Haven, he was carried by Mr. Jonathan ' Mix, to whose care he was committed, to the house ' of Mr. Beers, innkeeper, in said town, where were ' Captain Sears, Captain Lothrop, Mr. Brown, and ' some others, whose names he did not know or does ' not recollect. That several questions were asked ' him, to some of which he gave the most explicit ' answers, but perceiving some insidious design ' against him by some of the questions, he refused to ' answer any more. That Captain Sears then ob- ' served to him, if he understood him right, that they ' did not intend to release him, nor to make such a ' compromise with him as had been made with Judge ' Fowler and Mr.