Jail, whence he was soon removed to Connecticut, The charge against him was that he was cognizant of, or concerned in Gov. Tryon"s plot to assassinate Gen. Washington, and blow up the fort. How long he continued under surveillance in Conn, we cannot say, but he is represented by Sabine as in N. Y. in 1778, and as Register of the Court of Admiralty in 1782. By the act of 1779, he Avas attainted and his property confiscated.

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mentioned that there would be a sermon the ensuing Friday, which was the 17th, without saying anything of the reason, or by wliat authority. It was exceedingly dilficult for a loyal clergyman to preach on sucli an occasion, and not incur danger on the one hand, or not depart from his duty on the other. I endeavoured to avoid both, making peace and repentance my subject, and explicitly disclaimed having any thing to do with politics. T!iis sermon, in the composition of which I took some pains, I intend to publish, for various reasons, should I be able to recover it from the place where it now is, with all my books and papers, in the country. The several churches in this province, (except two, wliere the clergymen thought they might without danger omit service,) and so far as I can learn, through all the thirteen united colonies, as they are called, were opened on tills occasion.

Matters became now critical here in the highest degree. The rebel army amounted to near 30,000. All their cannon and military stores were drawn liither, and they boasted that the place was impregnable. The mortifications and aterms which the clergy met with were innumerable. I have frequently heard " myself called a Tory, and traitor to my country, as I passed the streets, and epithets joined to each, which decency forbids me to set down.