Farmer, and many others to the same purpose, which are replete with i he most impudent falsehoods and the grossest misrepresentations; and that the authors, printers, and abettors of the above and such like publications ought to be esteemed and treated as traitors to their country, and enemies to the liberties of America." A writer in Dawson's Historical Magazine (January, L868) says: "When copies <d' these pamphlets tell into the hands of the Whigs they were disposed of in such a manner as most emphatically to express detestation of the anonymous authors and their sentiments. Sometimes they were publicly burned with imposing formality, sometimes decorated with tar and feathers (from the turkey buzzard, as ' the fittest emblem of the author's odiousness ') and nailed to the whipping-post." In the draft of a document claimed to be in Seabury's own writing, he says that he was the author of a pamphlet entitled " Free Thoughts on the Proceedings of the Congress at Philadelphia," and of other publications width followed, all signed "A. W. Farmer." Dawson, however, after a careful study of the whole subject, concludes that

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the burden of evidence furors the opinion that Wilkins was their author.1 The provincial congress which assembled in May, 1775, continued in session, with several brief recesses, until the 4th of November, when it adjourned sine die. On the 7th of November elections for delegates to a second provincial congress were held in a number of the counties of New York, those in Westchester County occurring, as usual, at White Plains. The representatives chosen were Colonel Lewis Graham, Stephen Ward, Colonel Joseph Drake, Robert Graham, John Thomas, Jr., William Paulding, Major Ebenezer Lockwood,