neck, where on the 27th of November they were joined by the parent band. The next day the whole party took up their triumphal march to New Haven. They were escorted, says the local newspaper from which we have already quoted, " by a number of gentlemen from the westward, the whole making a grand procession. Upon their entrance into town they were saluted with the discharge of two cannons, and received by the inhabitants with every mark of approbation and respect. The company divided into two parts, and concluded the day in festivities and innocent mirth. " Captain Sears," ingenuously adds this patriotic sheet, " returned in company with the other gentlemen, and proposes to spend the winter here, unless publick business should require his presence in New York." It does not appear that any such " publick business," so far as Westchester County was concerned, transpired to interfere with the virtuous captain's amiable arrangements. He does not again figure, at least to the knowledge of the present historian, in the concerns of our county. Judge Fowler and Mayor Underbill were released in a day or two, after signing papers presented to them by the Connecticut officials, wherein they declared themselves to be heartily sorry for their "inconsiderate conduct," and promised never more to transgress in like manner. But the Rev. Mr. Seabury was not so leniently dealt with. It was widely believed that he was the author of ki A. W. Farmer " tracts, so peculiarly offensive to the patriotic sentiment of the times; and however that might be he was undeniably a Tory of the most intractable and odious type. It was remembered with great indignation against him that he had refused to open the church at Eastchester on the day appointed for the continental fast. Finally, he was regarded with deep private resentment by Captain Sears, who suspected him of complicity in a scheme to seize him (Sears) while lie was passing through Westchester County on a former occasion, and carry him on board a man-of-war.