" 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.

" Further your Memorialist begs leave to repre- "sent: That he has a wife and six children, to " whom he owes, both from duty and affection, pro- " tection, support, and instruction. That his family " in a great measure depend, under the providence of " God, upon his daily care for their daily bread. " That there are several families at West Chester " who depend on his advice as a physician, to which " profession he was bred. That as a clergyman he " has the care of the towns of East and West Chester. " That there is not now a clergyman of any denom- " iuation nearer than nine miles from the place of " his residence, and but one within that distance " without crossing the Sound ; so that in his absence " there is none to officiate to the people in any " religious service, to visit the sick, or bury the dead.