[Footnote 67: This committee had been sent to Connecticut under an alarm
of a separate negotiation, which is explained by Dr. Gordon, Vol. II.,
p. 19.]
[Footnote 68: Dr. Myles Cooper, an Englishman, graduated at Oxford, and
sent out by Archbishop Seeker to be president of King's College. He was
an old school High Church and State man, and proved one of the most
active opponents of the Revolutionary movement. The rumor here mentioned
was not true at this time. But eight days later the Dr. narrowly escaped
rough treatment by a mob, from whom he fled, and found his way on board
the _Kingfisher_, which took him to England. He died at Edinburgh in
1785.]