4 Reference is here made to the case of Timothy Doughty, of Duchesscounty, in which the victim, because he declined to sign the General Association -- there was no evidence which the Congress considered respectable, showing any other offence -- was seized by Egbert Benson, whose methods at an Election have been noticed ; and sent to New York, without any evidence of -wrong-doing; and thrown into a jail, without any provision for his support. At the request of Benson, he was kept in jail, for several weeks, without knowing for what he had been arrested ; and that, only to enable his unseen and malignant accuser to manufacture evidence against him. Fifteen worthless affidavits were subsequently sent to tho Congress, and beau to II, c victim, wlien lie was gwen a hearing ; but their worthlessness was so evident that the Congress discharged Doughty, although, as stated, it would not permit him to have copies of the papers, nor even to read them, (Journals of the Committee of Safety, September 4th ; the same, September 28th, 1775 ; Journals of tlie Provincial Congress, " Die Jovis, 9 ho., A.M., October " 19, 1775 ;" (he tame, " Die Martis, 9 ho., A.M., October 24, 1775 ; " Petitions of Timothy Doughty and others, September 22, 25, October 4, 11, 1775, (Historical Manuscripts, etc. : Petitions, xxxl., 96, 88, 70, 36.)
6 Among other instances, those of Angus McDonald, Molancton Lawrence, and Captain Drewitz, may be referred to.
The local authorities arrested and confined, without any trustworthy evidence, John Morrell, Adam Patrick, and Isaiah Purdy, in Orangecounty ; the Berghs, Timothy Doughty, and Mordecai Lester, in Duchess county ; John Connor, in Tryon-county ; Abraham Lawrence, in Queens county ; ete.