It pillaged the farm-houses ; and, at Mamaroneck, it burned a small sloop which belonged to one who was assumed to have been a friend of the Government. 5 A detachment of about forty men, under a Captain Lothrop, appears to have been pushed forward to the Town of Westchester, where, on Wednesday, the twenty-second of November, it seized the person of Nathaniel Underhill, the Mayor of that Borough, and that of the Rev. Samuel Seabury, who, as we have said, was the Master of
3 "On their way thither" [for East and West Chester,] "they were "joined by the Captains Richards, Scillick, and Head, with about 80 "men." * * * (The Connecticut Journal, No. 424, [New Haven] Wednesday, November 29, 1775.)
It is due to the respectable portion of the inhabitants of the Connecticut of that period, that mention should be made of the fact that no such names as these appear on the lists of Officers of Connecticut Companies, in 1775, which Mr. Hinman published in his Historical Collections of the part sustained by Connecticut during the War of the Itevolution; and that it is very probable that these three " Captains," like that other " Captain " who led them, on that occasion, possessed no other warrant than that of "courtesy," so called, for the privilege of carrying the title.
* It left New Haven on Monday, the twentieth of November ; but it did not reach Westchester until Wednesday, the twenty-second, and the City of New York, to which place it extended its excursion, until noon on Thursday, the twenty-third of that month.