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appointed for the meeting of the said Court, the said Nathan Stone together with Joseph Wait, Benjamin Wait, Israel Curtis, Enoch Judd, Joseph King, Steel Smith and a number of others amounting to about thirty as this Deponent believes appeared at the place where the Court were to sit in a Riotous and Tumultious manner the said Nathan Stone being armed with a sword, the said Joseph Wait with a Dagger or Hanger and the rest with large stave or clubbs and as it was feared by the Judges they designed mischief the said Thomas Chandler mildly demanded of the said Nathan Stone the reason of his being thus armed and desired him not to carry his Sword into Court (or to that purpose) the said Nathan Stone replied in a Low voice so that the Deponent is not able to say what was his Answer. The Judges soon after took their Seats and the Court being regularly opened according to the usual manner, the several Persons aforesaid and their Associates came into the Court House with their Hatts on and the said Nathan Stone and Joseph Wait armed as aforesaid (the said Stone carrying his Sword in his Hand) approached the Table before the Judges seat, while their Party, armed as aforesaid, stood ata small distance in a Body facing the Court. Then Stone demanded of the Court what business they had to sit there as a Court and said that he made this Demand in behalf of the Publick, in this he was seconded by the said Joseph Wait and the said Israel Curtis, and were answered by some of the Judges that the Letters Patent or Ordinance erecting the County and the Commission of the Pleas which were always read at the opening of the Court shewed their authority and all who wanted satisfaction ought to have attended to the reading of them, whereupon the said Nathan Stone Joseph Wait and Israel Curtis by many Arguments Denied the authority this Government had to errect the said County which the Court thought prudent to bear with, and not to make much answer to, but gave them to understand they should proceed to do the business then before them, Whereupon the said Joseph Wait, who stood Indicted with some others for a Riot, demanded an Immediate Tryal,--That the Insolent behaviour of the said Joseph Wait, Nathan Stone and Israel Curtis; and the martial appearance of them and their Party' armed and Ranged.as aforesaid being considered, the