dont know that Grout is gone on that buisness, for I have not seen him: but I understand he-has gone that way, Perhaps that may be his business.» After Whiting was gone and a Number of People ina Tumultuous way, followed him, asI was enformed, I understood that said Wells Issued his warrant to arrest some of them: and arrested them accordingly: and several times afterwards, I heard him said Wells speak of this Tumult with warmth, and said that he apprehended the people in it ought to be severely punished, and that he would do all in his power to see that they

was punished, or to the same purpose. JosEpH Lopp. Sworn this Twenty third Day of

June, Anno Domini 1776 (Endorsed) Daniel Whipple Esq Deposition.

--__

New York Cumberland County ss. Exsrnrzer Fisuer of Brattleborough in the county of Cumberland and Province of New York Personally Come and Apeared Before me, Joseph Lord Esqt one of the Judges of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas and one of His Majestys Justices of the Peace for ° said County, and being Duly Sworn Deposeth & Saith, that on Saturday Evening the Second Day of September Last Past, this Deponent was at the House of Samuel Wells Esqr in the Township of Brattleborough in said County of Cumberland, in Company with one Benjamin Whiting and said Saml! Wells, said Whiting Told said Wells that he (said Whiting) had Two Prisoners at Hinsdale (viz) William and Willard Dean, which he was going to Carry to New York By vertue of writs from the Court of vice Admiralty cf New York, said Wells asked said _ Whiting if he was agoing to Carry Them Down the River through the Massachusetts and Connecticut Governments, To which said Whiting answered that he Did not know but he should, for he understood there was Provision made for Officers of the Neighboring Governments to carry their Prisoners through. them Governments, by acts of Assembly (or To that Purpose) --said Wells Told him he Did not Recollect any such Act, and believed that there was none, unless it was made very Lately--