Johnson was Chairman, was appointed for an entirely different purpose ; and that the Session of the General Assembly which next succeeded that which was adjourned on the fourteenth of December, 1775, was not commenced until the ninth of May, 1776. (Historical Collections of the part sustained by Connecticut m the War of the Revolution, 198, 200.) General Peter Force, who diligently reprinted all the Journals of the General Assembly, in his elaborate American Archives, made no mention of a Session of the General Assembly, between that which was dissolved on the fourteenth of December, 1775, and the ninth of May, 1776, as stated by Hinman.

What mockery there was in that grace of the banditti, therefore, when it favored its captive with permission to memorialize an Assembly which had been dissolved, Bix days before the Memorial was written.

3 Memorial of Samuel Seabury to the General Assembly of Connecticut, December 20, 1775 ; Samuel Seabury to the Venerable Society, " New-York, "December 29, 1776" ; Jones' a History of New York during the Revolutionary War, i., 67, 68.

* Besides the unceasing attempts to encroach on the territory of New York, and, in other ways, to invade the Eights of the ColoniBts, in that Colony, which Connecticut and men from Connecticut were constantly making, Isaac Seal's, on the occasion now under notice, with the evident purpose of throwing all the titles of properties, in New York, and all the domestic and business relations, therein, into confusion and uncertainty, in order to make the inroads of depredators more certain of success, " intimated his design speedily to revisit this Province with a more " numerous body of the Connecticut Rioters, and to take away the " Records of the Province." (Governor Tryon In the Earl of Dartmouth, No. 22, "On Board the Ship Dutchess of Gordon New- York Har- " norm, 6* Dec 1775.")