During the first three months of the existence of the Convention, there were thus lawlessly seized, of the residents of Westchester-county, William and John Sutton, of Mamaroneck ; n John Rogers, a servant of Lewis Morris, of Morrisania ; 12 Joseph Reade, of Westchester; 13 Isaac Underhill, of Yonkers, 1 * and Philip Palmer 15 and James Horton, Junior, 16 besides a number of others the names of whom were not recorded on the Journal of the Convention. 11
9 Journal of the Committee of Safety t "Saturday morning, Novr. 9, "1776." w Journal of the Convention, " Die Jovis, 4 ho., P.M., July 18, 1776."
11 Vide page 200, ante. '
12 Journal of tlie Convention, " Wednesday morning, Augt. 28, 1776 ; " the same, "Thursday morning, Augt. 29, 1776."
13 The Affidavit on which Joseph Reade was ordered to he arrested is such asingular production that we are induced to copy it.
" Dutchess County, ss. Abraham W. D. Peyster, being sworn, depos- "eth and saith that, on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, the fourth, "fifth, and sixth days of September instant, he was at New-Rocholle, in " the County of Westchester ; that on one of the above-named days, he " heard, (as far as ho can at present recollect,) either Theodosius Bartow, "of New-liochelle aforesaid, or Anthony Abrahams, of the Town of "Westchester, in substance, say, in a conversation this Deponent had " with the one or the other of them, on the American contest, that Joseph Reade, late of the City of New-York, Attorney-at-Law, but, at "present, as this Deponent understood, a resident in the Town of West- " Chester, was reputed a great Tory ; that the chief of his, the said Joseph Reade's, conversation was of the Tory kind; and that he, the "said Joseph Reade, had reported that, in the late Battle on Long Is- "land, between the American Army and that of the King of Great " Britain, the Americans had lost either seven or fourteen thousand men.