" The other crime alleged against your Memorialist is "that he neglected to open his church on the day of the " Continental Fast. To this he begs leave to answer : " That he had no notice of the day appointed but " from common report : That he rec< ived no order " relative to said day either from any Congress or " committee: That he cannot think himself guilty of " neglecting or disobeying an order of Congress, '" which order was never signified to him in any way :

he acted in any political movement, with the conservative rather than with the revolutionary faction of the party of the Opposition.

Whatever he may have subsequently become, and the persecutions to which he was subjected by those of the opposite faction of the Opposition would have soured the most amiable of dispositions and have transfoi med those who were more opposed to the Government than he into active " friends of the Government," when this Memorial was written, and previously thereto, Samuel Seabury, like Isaac Wilkins and Frederic Philipse and the De Lanceys and the great body of the farmers of Westchester-county and those who were not seekers for offices and official power and official emoluments, everywhere, as far as they were po'itically inclined, in any direction, were unchanged, conservative members of the earlier party of the Opposition to the existing, governing Ministry, without either pretending to be or being, in the slightest degree, what were then known, distinctively, as "friends of the Government," orwhat have subsequently become known by the technical term, as offensive as it was distinctive, of "Tories."