As a matter of favor, however, he was permitted to memorialize the General Assembly of the Colony within which he was held in captivity, although that Assembly had been dissolved by Proclamation of the Governor, six days previously; and, because that Memorial is a portion of the revolutionary literature of Westchester-county, to say nothing of its importance as an authority in history, a place for it may be properly found in the text of this narrative. 1 It was in the following words :

" To the Honorable General Assembly of the " Gov. and Company of the Colony of Con- " necticut, now sitting in New Haven, in "said Colony, by special Order of his " Honor, the Governor.

"The Memorial of Samuel Sea bury, Clerk, A.M., " Rector of the Parish of West Chester, in the County " of West Chester and Province of New York, humbly "showeth: --

"That on Wednesday, the 22d day of November "last, your Memorialist was seized at a house in " West Chester where he taught a grammar school, by "a company of armed men, to the number, as he " supposes, of about forty ; that after being carried to "his own house and being allowed lime to send for " his horse, he was forced away on the road to Kings- " bridge, but soon meeting another company of "armed men, they joined and proceeded to East " Chester.

"That a person styled Captain Lothrop ordered " your Memorialist to be seized. That after the two " companies joined, the command appeared to your " Memorialist to be in Captain Isaac Sears, and the "whole number of men to be about one hundred. "Tliat from East Chester your Memorialist, in com-