And he the said Hofgood, after Dinner going away, she the said Barbara told us freely, by good Heart, without any action of question, that she was knowing the Place of Great Ingersheim, but never she did know him, it should not be for good Songs that he was gone from thence that this is the Truth I testify.

fish Kill Dutches County June ye 5*^ 1749. Then personally appear'i before me James Verplanck Esq' Andrees Frederick Peck and Elizabeth Sharer who declare^ on oath that the witliin mentioned Barbara Tupper told them what is here in this paper set forth and farther Said not.

EXAMINATION

BY CAPTAIN PAUL RYCAUT, TAKEN AT PAUGHKEPSIE OCTOBER THE 7^*' 1761.

Sertj' Cassedys Account of the ill treatment he Received from Jnathan Mead the Blacksmith and Timothy Driskill at the nine Partners when on Command after Deserters September the 30'^ 1761.

ULSTER AKD DUTCHESS COUNTY. 985

That on the 29^11 of September Lieu' Lyons detached him & a Sergt of the 55*^ with ten men in pursnit of three Deserters from the 17th Regiment, which he had information were concealed by the Inhabitants of the nine Partners, when he with the Commcand came to a place call'd the City he was inform'd tliat one M^^Intosh a Deserter from the 55'h Regiment was at work for M'' Bokay a Justice of the peace, near the above mention'd place, he thought it necessary to send the Serg* of the 55*^ in pursuit of said Deserter, and himself with a Corporal and three men to continue the rout to the nine Partners, when he parted from the Sergt of the 55th he gave him Lieu^ Colonel Darbys orders and pass which he had received from Lieu* Lyons. As soon as he came to the nine Partners he was informed that tliree men whose names they said wer Charles Lee, John Bravington & Joseph Roberts (whom he knew to be Deserters From the 17th Regt) had been lately at Sutherlands Mills, and was told he might get some account of them at Jonathan Meads a Blacksmith who liv'd near the Mills, when he came to the Blacksmiths shop he ask'd Mead if he could inform him of any Deserters, he answered he knew of none and if he did would not tell-- the Sergt then proceeded to the Mills and enquired from Mr Sutherland, (who he was told is an officer of the Malitia,) if he had seen three men pass that way, he said that he had seen three men there about four days ago, and that he had given them change for some Dollars, and likewise that one of them (which the Serjt by the description knew to be Charles Lee one of the Deserter above mention) had a great number of Dollars in a handkerchief and wanted to exchange Dollar for Dollar with said Sutherland, he giving none of a later date then 1755 -- this made y® Serjt conclude that Lee had coined those Dollars -- the Sergt afterwards came to the house of one Freeman who told liira that three men naming the three Deserters names viz Charles Lee John Bravington and Joseph Roberts had been four days near liis house carousing and had left it about five days since, when they went away stole a coat from him -- the said Freeman next day went with the Sergt jn pursuit of the Deserters, on their way were inform'd that a Deserter from the 55^h Regiment was married to the daughter of one Timothy