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.)

On the thirtieth of August, Chase again petitioned the Convention, as follows :

HISTORY OF WESTCHESTER COUNTY.

Arrests were thus made, very often, without the slightest reason, even from the standpoint of those exercising the authority ; ' and even women, when they

" Wight Plains Goal, August 30, 1776. "Gentlemen: My coufinement is the Reasou of my Petitioning to *'you the Honorahle Provential Congress, hopeing j'our Honours will be " Pleas'! to Take my (Jase into Consideration for the Comete of Safety " [the C'jinmitb'e of Wt'stclu'ster-coimiyl * Says that tliey have no Right to *'try me So I leave my Case to your Honnours and Begg that your *'Honnours would Coucider me for I have bin imprisoned a long time, "and nothing Appeared against me, So I begg that your Hounonrs " would consider me as Quick as Possible for I am a Poor man and itt is " a Great Dam mage to me to Ly in Prison, so Gentlemen I Leave my " Case to your Honnours not Douting but your wisdoms Gentlemen will "do me jestice, the Broken Petition from me,