Thomas Hawley, Pastor of tho Congregational-church at Ridgefield, Connecticut ; that he wits one of the proprietors of the Oblong ; that ho hold a Commission in the Continental Army ; and that he was taken off by death, suddenly, in 1788. (History of Westchester-county, original edition, i., 474 ; the same, second edition, i., 738.)

The "Continental" Commission referred to, by Mr. Bolton, was nothing else than that of First Lieutenant in Captain Truesdalo's Com. pany nf Colonial Militia, " for the North End of Salem "--a local Company of notoriously very little account, (Returns of Election of Officers, December 18, 1775, in the Historical Manuscripts, etc. : Military Returns, xxvii., 245.)

2 Journal of the Provincial Congress, " Die Sabbati, 6 ho. , P.M., June 8, "1778."

partisan political questions, were not in accord with those which the latter professed to hold; both, at the same time, concurring, however, in the recognition of the King of Great Britain as their legitimate Sovereign; both professing to be equally and enliiely good and loyal subjects of that reigning Monarch ; both owing obedience to the Laws of the Land ; and both, alike, recognizing the duty of that obedience, 3 although only one of the two discharged that duty, in its every day practice. Against those unoffending farmers -- as their accusers have shown, they were nothing else -- with a malignant zeal which betrayed its selfish, puritanic origin, the writer of that letter prayed that they should be arrested; that their properties, real and personal, should be seized, and escheated, and confiscated ; that "costs" should be paid, therefrom, into the willing hands of those who should have thus invaded their individual Rights -- Rights which had been guaranteed to each of them, by the Constitution and the Laws of the land -- that their homes should be violated and destroyed ; that their families should be made beggars, and be cast penniless on the world; and that, except among those who thus sought warrants to become local despots, nothing else than individual and domestic misery and general devastation and ruin should be aimed at and obtained.