" Gentlemen : My confinement is the Reason of my Petitioning to "yon the Honorable Provential Congress, hopeing your Honours will be " Pleas d to Take my Case into Consideration for the Comete of Safety " [the Committee of Westchester- county] ' Says that they have no Right to "try me So I leave my Case to your Honnours and Begg that your "Honnours would Concider me for I have bin imprisoned a long time, "and nothing Appeared against me, So I begg that your Honnoura " would consider me as Quick as Possible for I am a Poor man and itt is " a Great Dammage to me to Ly in Prison, so Gentlemen I Leave my " Case to your Honnours not Douting but your wisdoms Gentlemen will "do me jestice, the Broken Petition from me,

"Henry Chase.

"Postscript. Gentlemen I should he very glad if your Honnours ' ' would be so good as to send for me before your Honnour as Quick as "Possible and in so doing you will greatly me.

" Henry Chase."

(Historical Manuscripts, etc.: Petitions: xxxiii., 100.) The County Committee had officially informed Chase, nine days previously, that it had no jurisdiction of his case, and directed him to the Convention, (Westcliester-county Committee to Henry Clime, "In Com- "mittee of Safety for the County of Westchbster, White Plains, "Aug. 21, 1776"-- Historical Manuscripts, etc.: Petitions, xxxiii, 102;) but no attention whatever was paid to the ponr man's Petition, by either the Committee of Safety of the State or the Convention to whom it was addressed -- he was only "a Poor man," one of the "poor rep- " tiles," of earlier "patriotism."