Note 270 — Chapter I · (continued 2)

J. C. Hamilton's Repub. of the U. S., i. 55; Shea's Hamilton, ch. 7; Lossing's Schuyler, vol. i.; Life of Peter Van Schaack; Jones's N. Y. during the Rev., i. 477, 490, etc. John Adams (Works, ix. 407, 411) believed that New York held back. Dawson (Westchester, 9) thinks that ignorance or neglect is at the bottom of the usual view of the New York sluggishness, held to by writers, but he admits that Gouverneur Morris was doubtful for a while (p. 12; cf. Sparks's Life of Morris); he sets forth the great ability of the Tory organ, Rivington's Gazetteer (p. 127); he gives a fuller account than Hinman or Beardsley of the arrest of Samuel Seabury, the "Westchester Farmer", by Isaac Sears (pp. 127, 136; and on Sears, Jones, ii. 337, 622). Much can be gleaned from Tryon and Colden's letters to Dartmouth in N. Y. Col. Docs., viii.