Westchester County, New York, During the American Revolution

That a quilt in the " frame on which the daughters of your Memorialist " were at work was so cut and pierced with bayonets " as to be rendered useless. That while your Memo- "rialist was waiting for his horse, on the said 22d day " of November, the people obliged the wife of your " Memorialist to open his desk, where they examined "his papers, part of the time in presence of your " Memorialist. That he had in a drawer in the desk "three or four dollars and a few pieces of small sil- " ver. That he hath heard that only an English "shilling and three or four coppers were found in the " drawers after he was brought away. That your " Memorialist thinks this not improbable, as Jonathan " Fowler, Esq., informed him that a new beaver hat, a "silver-mounted horsewhip, andtwosilverspoonswere " carried off from his house on said day. Mr. Meloy, " also, of this town, informed your Memorialist that

2 It will bo observed that Mr. Seabury did not regard his captors as "troops" or " Light Horse" or military men, of any class: he evidently considered them as what are known as" irregulars;" and, for that reason, called thorn only " armed men."

3 Horso Neck of that period is West Greenwich of this.

WESTCHESTER COUNTY.

" he, the said Sf eloy, had been accused by some peo- " pie of pointing a bayonet at the breast of a daughter " of your Memorialist, desiring your Memorialist to ex- " culpate him from the charge, to which request your " Memorialist replied that he was not at his house but " at his school house when the affair was said to have " happened ; but that a daughter of your Memorialist " met him as he was brought from the school house, " and told him that one of the men had pushed a " bayonet against her breast and otherwise insulted "her; and your Memorialist remembers that when " he left his house in the morning his daughter had a "cap on, but when she met him near the school " house she had none on and her hair was hanging " over her shoulders.