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. That the said Wells Returned tothe Deponent and asked him what way Mr. Whiting Intended to go with the prisoners and on the Deponents Informing him that he Imagined that Mr. Whiting would Go across the Woods, The said Wells replied what would make him go across the woods you had better go Down the River and then you can go by Water and have a good Road all the Way, That the said Wells then asked the Deponent if Whiting had not Intended to go down the River when he did first set out, and on the Deponents answering that he did not know Mr. Whiting first intended to Take advice, The said Wells said if you had gone that way I dare say Grout would have been Ready for you at Springfield or somewhere along there, and would arrest you and put you into gaol and the prisoners would be Released. That the deponent then told the said Wells that would not do any good to the prisoners, if would only create costs and Trouble, and they would be taken again, to which said Wells Reply'd they could never be Taken again. That after the said Whiting Returned the said Wells asked the said Whiting in the deponents presence which way he Intended to go, that Whiting answered he believed he would go across the woods, upon Which the said Wells ask'd him what would make him go that way, and told him that he would never get across the Woods and had much better go down the River where he could go ina Canoe or have a good Road all the way, That the said Wells afterwards told the said Whiting that if he had gone down the River he dared to say that Grout would have been ready for him,