Provost Marshall of the said Court of Vice Admiralty for said Collony and on the 29th day of said August the said Whiting proceeded to Windsor in the said County and by virtue of two of the above mentioned Writs which he had against Williard Dean and William Dean Junt he apprehended their bodies and the day following Cammitted them to the care and keeping of Benjamin Wait and James Rosebrook who were to conduct them to Hinsdale in said County on their way to New York, While the deponent was gone to Execute his other Writs against other Trespassers, and on the second day of September following the deponent proceeded to Brattleborough in the said County and apprehended another person for a supposed Trespass of the Like kind and afterwards the Deponent, Called upon Samuel: Wells Esqt one of the Justices of the Court of Common pleas and one of the Justices for said County to Let him know what the deponent had done, and also to Let him know that the deponent Expected the said Wells' Friendly aid as a Magistrate provided

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there should be Occasion for it, as the deponent Imagined there was Danger of the prisoners being Rescued, the said Wells Expressed his dislike to the proceeding and said they were spightfull or Malicious actions owing to Governor Wentworth's being Disafected Towards the people on the West side of Connecticut River. The said Wells then asked the depont which way he propos'd to go with his prisoners to New York, the depot said he did not know, but that he should go thro' the Province of the Massachusetts Bay, the said Wells said he did not think the deponent had power to hold them in that province the depot said he did not know which way he should go, but determined before he set out to ask advice, The said Wells in presence of the prisoners which the deponent then had in Custody; asked the deponent which way he determined to proceed in order to get the Evidences to New York the deponent told him that he had a summons for the Witnesses and a Ticket to deliver each Witness and proposed to make the usual Engagement to them and if the Witnesses then neglected to attend they would then forfeit one hundred pounds sterling mentioned in the said Ticketts the said Wells then Reply'd that the penalty mentioned in said Ticketts could never be Recovered of the Witnesses if they did not attend agreeable to their summons or Tickett for the penalty mentioned in said Tickett was only in Terrorem which word said Wells Explained to the prisoners.