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.

5 " At Marmek they burnt a small sloop, which was purchased by Gov- " ernment, for the purpose of carrying provisions on board the Asia" -- (The Connecticut Journal, No. 424, [New Haven,] Wednesday, November 29, 1775.)

u * * * * and burnt one sloop belonging to persons friendly to government." -- (Governor Tryon to the Earl of Dartmouth, No. 22. "On " Board the Ship Dutchess of Gordon New York Harbour, 6 tJl Dec "1775."

WESTCHESTEE COUNTY.

a Boarding-school and Rector of the Established Church, in the same place, the former, as was subsequently seen, only because he had signed the Declaration and Protest, at the White PlainB, in the preceding April, 1 the latter, because he was more obnoxious to those who were in rebellion, in consequence of his greater intellectual power and of his decidedly greater bravery in the assertion and maintenance of his opinions and of his Rights. 2 Having accomplished its purposes in the seizures of the persons and in the plunder of the properties of the two victims, in Westchester, the detachment permitted Mr. Seabury, if not Mr. Underhill, to send for his horse ; and, then, it hastened away, on the road which connected that Town with Kingsbridge.