[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] manders maintained for political captives. The first list of suspects for the Comity of Westchester reported to the provincial congress was headed by the name of Colonel Fred-erick I'hilipse. Another conspicuous person denounced on the same occasion was the Rev. Samuel Seabury, of Eastchester, to whom Col-onel Lewis Morris had sarcastically alluded a few months before as a missionary for " propagating the Gospel, and not politicks, in for-314 HISTORY OF WESTCHESTER COUNTY eign parts/' Philipse was destined to a brief respite before being summoned to the Revolutionary bar, but Seabury was soon to expe-rience even harsher treatment than that provided for in the suffi-ciently aggressive provincial act. This initial list comprised alto-gether thirty-one persons. So far as their individual cases have been traced, documentary evidence has been found showing that at least twenty of the number were duly convicted and cast into prison. A specially interesting case was that of Godfrey Hains, of live, de-noun ced by one Eunice Purdy, supposed to have been a revengeful sweetheart, in an affidavit over her mark. Eunice, being sworn " upon the Holy Evangelists of Almighty God," alleged that Hains had used extremely incendiary language in her hearing against congresses and committees, and moreover had expressed the heinous wish that men-