"As witness my hand :

"Jonathan Fowler. "New-Haven, November 29, 1775."

II.

"Whereas I. Nathaniel Underhill, of Westchester, in the Province of "New-York, did, some time ago, sign » Protest against the Resolves of "the Honourable Continental.Congress, which inconsiderate conduct I " am heartily sorry for, and do hereby promise, for the future, riot to "transgress in the view of the people of this Continent, nor, in any "sense, to oppose the measures taken by the Continental Congress.

"As witness my hand, in New-Haven, November 30, 1775.

"N. UNDfRHILL,

" Mayor of the Borough of Westchester." 1 Memorial of Samuel Seabury to the Qeniral Assembly of Connecticut, December 20, 1776.

fian, Sears, who was, at best, only a sojourner in that Colony and, subsequently, was sheltered by the Governor, on that ground ; but his application found no favor before those Magistrates, notwithstanding their authority was undisputed. He then sought the interference of the local revolutionary Committee, with the same result. The Governor, also, disregarded his demand; and when the banditti who continued to hold him, a captive, in the midst of that Capital-town of the Colony, consented that he should memorialize the General Assembly of the Colony, which does not appear to have been, then, in Session, 2 no benefit to the memorialist, from the Legislature of the Colony, could have been intended. 3

While these proceedings were in progress, in Connecticut, the revolutionary authorities, in New York, were almost equally unmindful of what was due from them, in the protection of the individual Colonists from the aggressions of their neighbors, and in the support of the autonomy of the Colony, which those from Connecticut were beginning to threaten* -- the Colonial Government and the armed vessels which