History of Westchester County, New York, Vol. I

3 We are not insensible of the fact that Hiuman, in his Historical Collections of the part svMaiiied bif Omnecticut daring the War of the Hevoluti/m, {page 548,) stated that Samuel Seabury " brought his petition on the "20th day of December, 1776,* to the General .Xssembly of Connecticut, " then sitting at New Haven ; " and, further, {page 551,) that " the peti- "tion, in the Assembly, was referred to a Joint Committee of the two " Houses, with William Samuel Johnson, Esq., as Chairman, who re- " ported that a letter had been received from the President of the New " York Congress, on the subject ; and that to answer said letter, a pub- " lie hearing should be had before both Houses of said .\ssembly." We arc not insensible, also, that Mr. Seabury addressed his Memnriul " To '•the Honorable the General Assembly * » * now sitting in New " Haven, in said Colony, by special Order of his Honor, the Governor," {ride page 312. ante.) But the Journal of that Special Session, called by the Governor, and sitting at New Haven, shows " the General iVssembly " was adjourned by Proclamation, on the 14th day of December, 1775 ; " and that there was no other Session of the .\ssembly, from the latter

* Thus stated in that work.

HISTORY OF WESTCHESTER COUNTY.

quently stated, "the gang who took" [hini] "pris- '■ oner thought proper to withdraw their guard and "let" [Jiim'] "return" to his desolated home.'