1. For Benson’s letter of this date to the commanding officers of the militia in the western towns of Connecticut, see John Fellows to GW, 18 July, n. 1.

2. Benson wrote Nathaniel Woodhull, president of the New York convention, on 12 July acquainting him with “a dangerous insurrection that has happened in this County, but which, through the extraordinary exertions of our friends, is now happily suppressed. We have not been able as yet, with any tolerable degree of precision, to discover how many persons were engaged, though we have reason to believe that the number was great; and had they not been opposed with spirit and in season, they would in a few days have become formidable. There were about two hundred imbodied and actually in arms. They had furnished themselves with arms by previously going about in small parties the night before and disarming the friends of liberty. We have apprehended several. The rest are skulking in the woods; however, we shall endeavour to have them all taken” (Force, American Archives description begins Peter Force, ed. American Archives. 9 vols. Washington, D.C., 1837–53. description ends , 5th ser., 1:1408).