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. That the said prisoners Consented to go and did go with the deponent and the said Rosebrook to Hinsdale where they again found the said Grout, and that the said Benjamin Whiting Came there that Evening with another person a prisoner, That the said Grout at Hinsdale Endeayoured to persuade the said Whiting to go with the said Prisoners Through part of the Massachusetts & Connecticut Governments and told him that the way thro' the Colony of New York across the Mountains was very Difficult thro' Mountains without a Road, and that thro' the other Collonies there was a Good Road and by Law a provision made for Leave and Authority for the Officers of other Collonies to carry their prisoners thro' those Collonies, That the Deponent Informed the said Benjamin Whiting of the before mentioned Conduct of the said Grout in his presence, and that Grout then told the said Whiting that the Deponent had not any Right to keep the said