" This my Humble Petition to Beg of your Honnours to send for me " that I may have my tryal for the County Commete and the Commete " of Safety says that they have no Right to try me and I have desird " them to send me to the Honnourahle Provenshall Congress and they " tell me they Dare Not send me without orders from your Honnours " Gentlemen so I shall be very Glad if your Honnours will be Good "Enouf to send for me as soon as Possible, for I have bin in Prison " Going on Eight weeks and I cant support myself any Longer,* So "Gentlemen I Shall be very Glad if your Honnours would take my "case into Consideration if your Honnours Pleases so that I may be "clear* or eondem d So Gentlemen I leave my case to your Honnours *' wise consideration not Douting but your Honnours will have compas- " sion on a Poor Prisoner.
" Henry Chase."
(Historical Manuscripts, etc. : Petitions, xxxiii., 90.)
To this second appeal, there does not appear to have been made the slightest answer, although it was received by the Convention, and ■ ' read," (Journal of Vie Convention, Tuesday morning, Septr. 17, 1776 ;) and His tory is silent concerning the remainder cf the victim's career.
Those who shall desire to know who and what kind of a man it was who had thus possessed and "exercised power enough to point his dirty finger at a man and cause him to be thus outrag d, without any remedy, may be gratified by turning to a Petition addressed to the Provincial Congress, on the fourth of May, 1776, by William Duer, subsequently well known, (Historical Manuscripts, etc. ; Petitions, xxxii., 85 ;) and to the Accot of Monies, p A by the Treasurer for which no Accot lias been rendered by the persons to whom they were paid, reported by the Treasurer to the Convention, on the eighteenth of September, 1776.