Mr. .\dams should have told just what he would have done, had he and his family passed through such au ordeal of '• patriotism " as tlieso islanaers had sustained, and had he, as they were, been without hope of relief from his own countrymen. The record of his judgment would, then, have been complete.

3 See the instances of Christopher Templer, {Journal of the Couventi.n, "Die Lun,-*, i ho., P.M., July 22, 177G ; ") that of Robert Sutton, {the mme, " Die ilercurii, 9 ho., A.M., July 24th, 177G ;") that of Nicholas Couwenhoven, {Jounml of Ok Cummiihe of S<ifitij, " Tuesday afternoon " Augt. 27, 1776 ; ") and many others.

<See the instance of Henry Chase, " committed to the Jail at White " Plains, by an order from the Major," [iLijor Webnter, Diputg fnna Cliiirlutte-counlii.] {Jotirntil of the Cunventiim, " Die Jovis, 5 ho., P.M. "July 25, 1776.")

This case of imprisonment of Henry Chase very perfectly illustrated the despotic disposition and actious of those who were then in authority.

On the twenty-fifth of July, the date of the entry of his arrest on the Jounial of Oie Convention, (he may have been arrested much earlier,) he petitioned the Convention that he was "confined in Goal u|)on suspision, " without money or friends," and begged that body would "bestow its "charity " upon him, {I\tUi>m of Henry Chase and three oOiertt, " White " Plains, July 25, 1776 : " Historical Munuscriptt, etc. ; PelUium, xxxiii. 152.)