Proceedings of the Town, in legal Town-Meeting,-February 6, 1775, in Rivington's New-York Gazetteer, No. 97, New-York, Thursday, February 23, 1775, reprinted in Force's American Archives, Fourth Series, i., 1216; Hurd's History of Favrfield-connty, 184.

1 Hurd's History of Fairfield-cownty, 268.

8 Hurd's History of Fairfield-county, 502-504; Childs's Burning of Norwalk, in Hurd's History, 513, 514.

Rivingtorts New-York Gazetteer, No. 97, New- York, Thursday, February 23, 1775 ; Rev. Mr. Beach'B Reports to the Secretary of the Venerable Society, 1765-1781 ; Hurd's History of Fairfield-county, 583.

10 Huntington's History of Stamford, 205 ; Hurd's History of Fairfieldcounty, 706.

11 Protest of one hundred and twenty Freeholders and Inhabitants of the Town of New Milford, February 27, 1775, reprinted in Force's American Archives, Fourth Series, i., 1270 ; History of Litchfield-county, Connecticut, Phila. : 1881, 451.

^Dwight'e Travels, ii., 369.

13 History of Litchfield-county, 495, 496.

14 History of Litchfield-county, 530.

*& Hinman's Historical Collections of the part sustained by Connecticut, during the War of the Revolution, 18, 84, 570".

16 Letter from Oyster-bay to James Rivington, from " A Spectator," describing a Meeting of ninety Freeholders of that Town, on the thirtieth of December, 1774. {Rivington's New-York Gazetteer, No. 90, New York, Thursday, January 5, 1775.)

17 Declaration of ninety-one Freeholders and forty-five other principal Inhabitants of Ja.naica, "Jamaica, January 27, 1775," in Rivington^s New- York Gazetteer, No. 94, New- York, Thursday, February 2, 1775.

18 Card, dated "Ulster-county, New York, February 11, 1775," published in Force's American Archives, Fourth Series, i., 1230.