Westchester County, New York, During the American Revolution

" Captain Sears returned in company with the other gentlemen, and "proposes to spend the winter here, unless publick business should re- " quire his presence in New-York.-- Seabury, Underhill, and Fowler, " three of the dastardly protestora against the proceedings of the Conti- " nental Congress, and who it is believed had concerted a plan for kid- " napping Captain Sears, and conveying him on board the Asia man-of- " war, are (with the types and anus) safely lodged in this town, Where " it is expected Lord Underbill will have leisure to form the scheme of " a lucrative lottery, the tickets of which cannot be counterfeited ; and • " Parson Seabury sufficient time to compose sermons for the next Conti- " nental fast."-- (The Connecticut Journal, No. 424, [New Haven,] Wednesday, November 29, 1775.)

See. also, Seabun/s Memorial to the General Assembly of Connecticut, December 20, 1775, m'cfa page 136, post; and Jones's History of New York during the Revolutionary War, i., 66, 67.

2 Although the instruments of the recantation of these two of the three victims do not appear in Tlie Connecticut Journal, they were printed in Holt's New-York Journal, No. 1718, New-York, Thursday, December 7, 1775, and may be seen in Force's American Archives, IV., iii., 1708.

I.

"Whereas I.Jonathan Fowler, Esq., one of His Majesty's Judges of " the Inferior Court for the County of WestcheBter, in the Province of " New- York, did, some time ago, sign a Protest against the Honourable " Continental Congress, which inconsiderate conduct I am heartily sorry "for, and do hereby promise for the future not to transgress in the view " of the people of this Continent, nor in any sense to oppose the meas- " ures taken by the Continental Congress.