Whatever he may have subsequently become, and the persecutions to which he was subjected by those of the opposite faction of the Opposition would have soured the most amiable of dispositions and have transfoimed those who were more opposed to the Government than he into active " friends of the Governmeut," when this ilemnrial was written, and previously thereto, Samuel Seabury, like Isaac Wilkins and Frederic Philipse and the De Lauceys and the great body of the farmers of Westchester-county and those who were not seekers for offices and official power and official emoluments, everywhere, as far as they were po'itically inclined, in any direction, were unchanged, conservative membeis of the earlier party of the Opposition to the existing, governing Jlinistry, without either pretending to be or being, in the slightest degree, what were then known, distinctively, as "friends of the Government," orwbut have subsequently become known by the technical term, as offensive .as it was distinctive, of "Tories."

2 Vide pages 231, 232, ante.

3 Vide pages 247, 250, ante.

THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION, 1774-1783.

" That a complaint was exhibited against your " Memorialist to the Provincial Congress of New " York, by Captain Sears, soon after the neglect with " which he is charged, and that after the matter was " Fully debated, the complaint was dismissed: ' That " he conceives it to be cruel, arbitranj, and in the " highest degree uiijiisf, after his supposed oflense has " been examined before the proper tribunal, to be " dragged like a felon seventy miles from home, and " again impeached of the same crime. At this rate " of proceeding, should he be acquitted at New " Haven, he may forced seventy miles farther, " and so on without end.