" That a complaint was exhibited against your " Memorialist to the Provincial Congress of New " York, by Captain Sears, soon after the neglect with " which he is charged, and that after the matter was " fully debated, the complaint was dismissed : ' That " he conceives it to be cruel, arbitrary, and in the " highest degree unjwt, after his supposed offense has " been examined before the proper tribunal, to be " dragged like a felon seventy miles from home, and " again impeached of the same crime. At this rate " of proceeding, should he be acquitted at New " Haven, he may [be] forced seventy miles farther, " and so on without end.

"Further your Memorialist begs leave to repre- " sent : That he has a wife and six children, to " whom he owes, both from duty and affection, pro- " tection, support, and instruction. That his family " in a great measure depend, under the providence of " God, upon his daily care for their daily bread. " That there are several families at West Chester " who depend on his advice as a physician, to which "profession he was bred. That as a clergyman he " has the care of the towns of East and West Chester. " That there is not now a clergyman of any denom- " ination nearer than nine miles from the place of " his residence, and but one within that distance " without crossing the Sound ; so that in his absence "there is none to officiate to the people in any " religious service, to visit the sick, or bury the dead.