Documentary History of the State of New York, Vol. IV
others should enter into Bond for Five hundred Pound according to the best of this Deponents Remembrance and Belief to be forfeited if the matters for which the said Sheriff was then attempting to take them were any further prosecuted, or if any of the Inhabitants of Windsor should be prosecuted at the then next General Sessions for any Crimes whatsoever, And further that the said Sheriff should Engage to make Return upon the Process against the said Nathan Stone, Joseph Wait, Benjamin Wait and Samuel Stone, that they could not be found in his Bailiwick--That after detaining this Deponent a Prisoner in the said House for upwards of Seven Hours the said Sheriff & this Deponent with the rest of the Prosse were set at Liberty and Suffered to Depart, And this Deponent further Deposeth that on the fifth day of June last while this Deponent was attending the Inferior Court of Common Pleas for the said County in the Business of his Profession at the Township of Chester in the said County one Benjamin Thurston and one David Getchel seized this Deponent then in the House of John Chandler Esq' Clerk of the Peace for the said County and forceably and Violently Carried him away from thence & were soon after joined by David Stone, Elisha Hawley, Enoch Judd, Ebenezer Curtis, Andrew Norton, Elnathan Strong, Joseph Thompson Steel Smith, Nathan Stone, Joseph Wait Benjamin Wait, Samuel Gridley Jacob Getchel Ebenezer Horsington, Simeon Mills, Solomon Emmons Jonathan Noble, Samuel Whiston, Joseph King, Ebenezer Heywood, Aron Bartlett since Deceas'd and some others to the number of near Thirty Persons who were armed with sticks & who surrounded this Deponent and after pulling, shaking and Twitching this Deponent with the utmost Cruelty forceably & violently hurried . this Deponent along with them with the utmost precipitation to Charlestown in the Province of New Hampshire obliging this Deponent to walk the whole way thither being Twelve Miles distant from the said Township of Chester that on the Road they used this Deponent with great Incivility & Cruelty by pulling Twitching and Shaking him, that this Deponent remained in the Custody of the said Rioters at Charlestown aforesaid about Twelve Hours from whence they carried this Deponent to a place called Windsor in this Province distant about Twenty miles from