" 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.

"Your Memorialist, also, begs leave further to " represent that after he had been eight or ten days "at New Haven, he was carried by Mr. Jonathan " Mix, to whose care he was committed, to the house " of Mr. Beers, innkeeper, in said town, where were "Captain Sears, Captain Lothrop, Mr. Brown, and " some others, whose names he did not know or does " not recollect. That several questions were asked " him, to some of which he gave the most explicit "answers, but perceiving some insidious design "against him by some of the questions, he refused to "answer any more. That Captain Sears then ob- " served to him, if he understood him right, that they "did not intend to release him, nor to make such a " compromise with him as had been made with Judge " Fowler and Mr. Underhill, 1 but to keep him a pris- " oner till the unhappy disputes between Great "Britain and America were settled.