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

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prisoners and that he the said Whiting had no Right tocarry fire arms, when he had any prisoner in his Custody, and that he would make him know it. That on the Third day of Septemt the said Grout left the Deponant and the prisoners at Hinsdale where they Tarried all that Day being Sunday. That early the next day Samuel Wells Esq* one of the Judges of the Court of Common pleas for the said County of Cumberland Came to Hinsdale at the Instant the said Benjamin was Going across Connecticut River to one Jones a Lawyer to ask council That the said Wells took the said prisoners into the Orchard and had some conversation with them during which time the deponent stood before the door of the house where they then Tarried and observed the prisoners.