Directed the said Rosebrook and the deponent to meet him with the said prisoners at Hinsdale in the said County of Cumberland, and that the said Benjamin Whiting then went in pursuit of other persons against whom he had other processes. That the said Benjamin Whiting left a pistol:and some ammunition. with Each of them the said Rosebrook and the deponent for their defence in Case any Injury should be attempted Towards them, or any attempt made to Rescue the said prisoners which there was great Reason to fear, That on the thirty first day of August

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aforesaid the said Rosebrook, the said defendants and the deponent did set out to go to Hinsdale, and in their way to Hinsdale aforesaid, on the first day of September at Night one John Grout an attorney at Law in Cumberland County met them at Westminster and that night Insisted that the said Rosebrook and the deponent had not any Right to keep the said prisoners in the absence of the said Whiting and that they had not any Right to have or Carry Arms with them. That on the next morning the second of September before the Deponent and the said Rosebrook with the said Prisoners did set off on their way from Westminister to Hinsdale the said John Grout told the said prisoners not to go with the deponent and the said Rosebrook unless they Carried them by force and told the Deponent that they would have a Right to buing their Action against him, That the said John Grout also Insisted that the said prisoners should not go with the said Rosebrook and the Deponant unless they would unload their fire arms, or Draw the charges out of their pistols. That the said Grout did Insist so much on the Deponent to Draw the Charges out of the said Pistols and Threatened him so much that he did unload both the said Pistols, and that the said Grout did then Insist that the deponent should burn all the ammunition which he and the said Rosebrook had with them which the deponant Refused and did not comply with.