"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,

"Henry Chase.

" Postscript. Gentlemen I should be very glad if your Honnours " would be so good as to send for me before your Hounour as Quick as " Possible and in so doiug you will greatly me.

" Henry Chase."

{Histni-iad ULntiiscrij^Oi, etc.: Pt'litlinis : xxxiii., 100.)

The County Committee had officially informed Chase, nine days previously, that it had no jurisdiction of his case, and directed him to the Convention, {WL'stcliesier-couidy Committee U) Henry Chase, "In Com- "mittee of Safety for the County of Westchester, White Plains, "Aug. 21, in6"--Hu<torkitl 31>iiimcript.% etc. : PetUions, xxxiii, 102;) but no attention whatever was paid to the ponr man's Petition, by either the Committee of Safety of the State or the Convention to whom it wiis addreiised-- he was only "a Poor man," one of the "poor rep- " tiles," of earlier "patriotism."