3 We are not insensible of the fact that Hinman, in his Historical Collections of the part sustained by Connecticut during the War of the Revolution, {page 548,) stated that Samuel Seabury "brought his petition on the "20th day of December, T77o',* to the General Assembly of Connecticut, " then sitting at New Haven ; " and, further, {page 551,) that " the peti- " tion, in the Assembly, was referred to a Joint Committee of the two " Houses, with William Samuel Johnson, Esq., as Chairman, who re- " ported that a letter had been received from the President of the New " York Congress, on the subject ; and that to answer said letter, a pub- " lie hearing should be had before both Houses of said Assembly." We are not insensible, also, that Mr. Seabury addressed his Memorial " To "the Honorable the General Assembly * * * now sitting in New " Haven, in said Colony, by special Order of his Honor, the Governor," (vide page 136, ante.) But the Journal of that Special Session, called by the Governor, and sitting at New Haven, shows " the General Assembly " was adjourned by Proclamation, on the 14th day of December, 1775 ; " and that there was no other Session of the Assembly, from the latter

* Thus stated in that work.

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quently stated, "the gang who took" [Aim] "pris- '• oner thought proper to withdraw their guard and "let" [him] "return" to his desolated home. 1