That in the Night of the said fifth Day of September a Riotous Number of Men Came about a small log house. Where the said Whiting with his prisoners and the deponent. and the said Rosebrook Lodged, and broke into the Lower part of, the house and threatened to pull it down and Rescue the said prisoners with many Violent threats against the Life of the said Whiting, but that after so much outrageous behaviour in the Night and Threats and Entreaties they were prevailed on to depart in the morning. . Bensamin Warr.

Sworne this fifteenth day of November 1769. ; Before me

Danu Horsmanpen,

NEW HAMPSHIRE GRANTS.. 633

Amos Ture of Hinsdale of full age Testifies and says that some time in the month of August or September Anno Domini 1769 The Deponent went to Brattleborough with Benjamin Whiting Esq: in order to assist said Whiting in taking one Ebenezer Fisher who said Whiting told the Deponent he had a Writ against for destroying the King's Timber and after said Whiting had arrested said Fisher and was about to carry him to Hinsdale where said Whiting had one Willard Deane and William Deane Jun in Custody for the Like offence Samuel Wells Esq? of Brattleburrough one of the Justices of the Court of Common pleas for the County of Cumberland asked said Whiting which way he proposed to go to New York with the men he had in Custody, the said Whiting said he did not know which way he should go said Wells told said Whiting he did not know whether he had a Right to go through the Province of the Massachusetts Bay, some time afterwards the deponent heard said Wells tell said Whiting that he said Wells tho't theré would be no difficulty in going thro? the Province of the Massachusetts Bay, and seem'd to Encourage said Whiting's Travelling thro' the Province aforesaid with his prisoners, but said Whiting chose Rather to go across the woods & mountains to Albany and took his Depar ture accordingly. and