That on the 14t*' day of said month the Declarant was inform'd that the same company were coming to attack the houses in his neighbourhood, that soon after he heard the noise of men & dogs as he apprehended at some distance & following the noise he disco ver'd thirty or forty men going away fit-om the House of Robert Noble, & as soon as they were out of sight the Declarant w^nt down to the said Nobles house, that the said Nobles Wife told the Declarant that about forty or fifty men arm'd with Guns and Swords among whom were Colonel Jolm "Van Ranslaer and also Henry Van Ranslaer Esq'' had been at said house, that one of the Company ask'd for her Husband who was gone to Sheffield, that they broke open the Cliest took her Husbands Gun away, & also his Spear, the Gun they return'd that she told tliem if they would spare the house she would persuade her Husband to submit to the Renslaers and acknowledge their Title whereupon the said arm'd persons left her house. The Declarant further says that he was inform'd that said company went from said Nobles house to Nehemiah Hopkins's & puU'd great part of it down, and the Declarant afterwards went to said House & saw that the Boards v/ere all puU'd off from the sides of tlie house, & an attempt made to break up the roof That the next day being the 15 h he was inform'd that some of the same arm'd Company had that morning just at day light broke into tlie House of William Race who liv'd about the same distance from Hudsons River with the Declarant, and that said Race forc'd his way through the Roof of the House & attempted to Escape h\it as he was running