"others "of the neighbouring States,'" -- of course, the older-time repository of the victims of New York's "suspicion," at Litchfield, in Connecticut, was included ; -- did not fail to receive their very welcome supply of well-to-do boarders.

During the first three months of the existence of the Convention, there were thus lawlessly seized, of the residents of Westchester-county, William and John Sutton, of Mamaroneck ; " John Rogers, a servant of Lewis Morris, of Morrisania ; Joseph Reade, of Westchester;'' Isaac Underbill, of Yonkers," and Philip Palmer'* and James Horton, Junior,'" besides a number of others the names of whom were not recorded on the Journal of tlu Convention}'

^Journal of the CtminUlee of Sifetij^ "Saturday morning, Novr. 9, " 1776."

^0 J' ami ol of the Convention, " Die Jovis, 4 ho., P.M., July 18, 1776." " Vide page 375, ante.

^-Journal of the Couivntiioi, " Wednesday morning, Augt. 28, 1770 ; " the some, " Thureiiay morning, Augt. 29, 1770."

1' The Affidavit on which Joseph Reade was ordered to be arrested is such asingular production that we are induced to copy it.

" DuToicESs ConNTV, ss. Abraham W. D. Peyster, being sworn, depos- "eth and saith that, on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, the fourth, " fifth, and sixth days of September instant, he w:i3 at New-Rochelle, in "the County of Westchester; that on one of the above-named days, he "heard, (as far as he can at present recollect, 1 either Theodosius Bartow, "of New-Roehelle aforesaid, or Anthony Abrahams, of the Town of " Westchester, in substance, say, in a conversation this Deponent bad " with the one or the other of them, on the American contest, that Jo- ".^eph Re.ade, late of the City of New- York, .Vttorney-at-Law, but, at "present, as this Deponent undei'stood, a resident in the Town of Weat- " Chester, was reputed a great Tor.v ; that the chief of bis, the said .lo- " sepli Readers, convereation Wiis of the Tory kind; and that he, the "said Joseph Reade, had reported that, in the late Battle on Long I»- "land, between the American Army and that of the King of Great " Britain, the .\mericans had lost either seven or fourteen thousand men.