in Connecticut, as in well known, were too nearly akin in Bentiraent to the Towns in Westchester-county to have supplied respectable men, for such a questionable service ; and specimens of those of Connecticut who were so zealous in the support of the Rebellion, in New York, when there was no armed forces before them-- those, from that.Colony were not so zealous, on the northern frontier and in Canada, at Kips Bay and in New Jersey, when an armed enemy was either before or behind them -- might have been seen in those who were led by Waterbury and by Sears, by Wooster and by Webb, of whom and of whose peculiarly "New Eng- "land Ideas," concerning the laws of mewn el twwm, history has left abundant evidence.
1 Historical Manuscripts, etc. : Miscellaneous Papers, xxxiv., 193.
» Colonel Frederic Philipse, of Tonkers and Sleepy Hollow, Member of the General Assembly, already made known to the reader. He was exiled ; and his property sequestrated, confiscated, and Bold.
3 Isaac and Josiah Brown were arrested ; thrown into the Prison at the White Plains ; and subsequently released on condition that they should board with William Miller, Deputy Chairman of the County Committee, at their own expense, instead of at their own homes.
« Lyon Miller was First Lieutenant in the Harrison Precinct Company of Militia, reorganized under the enactment of the Provincial Congress, in AuguBt, 1776.
6 Bartholomew Haines was arrested and thrown into Prison at the White Plains. His name will be seen, very frequently, in the following pages of this narrative.