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,

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and Either said arrest or attach him, That on Next day, which was the fifth day of September the said Whiting with the said Willard Dean and William Deane Jun™ in his Custody, and the deponent and the said Rosebrook in his company were met in Brattleburrough by the said Wells, that the said Wells in conversation asked the said Whiting whether he did not Intend to have gone down the River when he did first set out, that Whiting answered that he was not at that time Determined which way he should Take as he then Intended to take advice, That the said Wells then told him that he wished he had gone down the River as he dared to say that Grout would have been Ready for him and have arrested him and then told Whiting that when he went over to Hinsdale yesterday morning he Intended to send Grout, but found that Grout was gone before he arrived there, That' the said Whiting then told the said Wells that he was a pretty Devil of a Judge to attempt to serve him in that manner, That he thought it was his duty Rather to assist an officer with prisoners than try to lead him into a snare.