"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-

» A portion of this notable paper was published by Hinman, in bis Historical Collection* of the part sustained by Connecticut during the War of tlie Revolution, (pages 548-551.) Rev. E. E. BeardBley, D.D , in bis Life and Correspondence of the Right Eevej-end Samuel Seabury, D.D., (Second Edition, 36-42,) published as nearly a complete and accurate copy of it as those who printed his book would permit him'to give to his readers. It is believed that, with his kind assistance, we have the privilege of laying an entirely accurate and complete copy of the original manuscript before our readers, from the copy of that original which was furnished to him by Charles J. Hoadley, the Librarian of the State Library, at Hartford, the custodian of that paper.