And further this Disponent saith, that from Chester to Charlestown the said Rioters were Commanded by Joseph Wait and from thence to Windsor by Nathan Stone. And further this Deponent saith not Joun Groor.

Sworn before me this _ ninth day of August 1770

Dani HorsmManpen.

NEW HAMPSHIRE GRANTS. : 641

AFFIDAVIT OF SAMUEL WELLS.

City of New York ss: Samvet Wexts of Brattleborough in the County of Cumberland Esquire one of the Judges of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas for the said County came this Day before me and made oath that some time between the fourteenth and Nineteenth Days of May last this Deponent on his Return home from a Journey called upon Colonel Nathan Stone in Windsor who mounted his Horse and rode with this Deponent almost through Town, on the Road the said Stone and this Deponent discoursed concerning the High Sheriff not long before coming into Windsor to serve some Precepts, and his being opposed and threatened, the said Stone told this Deponent that he was determined that no writs or Precepts that Issued out of the Inferior Court or Courts of General Sessions of the Peace for the said County should be served in Windsor, or to that purpose ; That the making a County was a sham and not a Reality, that the Patent or Ordinance for erecting the County was a Libel, as it suggested that its being erected into a County was Petitioned for, which he said was false, that it was never Intended that these Courts should Act in. Trying Causes, that there was no Justice to be obtained in the County by means of the Corruption of the Judges Justices and other Officers, that they were ruled intirely by John Grout Attorney at Law, that he was determined to oppose their Authority, while he had a Drop of Blood in his veins; That friendship to this Deponent Induced him to bear this Deponent Company until he had passed by most of the Settlements in Town, and Intimated that if this Deponent should Ride alone through Town he would be in danger of being Assaulted by the People and have some violence done to him ; That this Deponent endeavoured by many arguments to Convince the said Stone of the danger of opposing the Execution of the Laws and exhorted him to alter his resolution and told him that if he and the People would for the future make no opposition to the free execution of the Laws it would be the most likely method he and they could take to induce the Civil authority to pass over the opposition already made in the Tenderest manner ;