Said Wells further Told him he could cross the woods without any Great Difficulty, if he gota Pilot Part of the way--said Whiting was very urgent to have said Wells meet him at Hindsdale on monday morning the next.

This Deponent was at Hindsdale on the Monday next following said Second Day of September Said Wells, Whiting, & his two assistants Benjamin Wait and one Rosebrook--Present, Likewise the two Prisoners above mentioned, and heard said Wells & Whiting, Discourse in substance the same as above, with Regard to Carrying said Prisoners thro' said Governments or a Cross the woods.

Sworn this ninth Day of July A. D. 1770 ? Esenezer Fisuer. before me Josepu Lorp.

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New York Cumberland County. Wiiuarp Dean of full age personally came and appeared before me the Subscriber Oliver' Willard Esq. one of his Majesty's Justices of the Peace in S4 County and one of the Assistant Judges.

_ And being sworn on the holy Evangelists Deposeth & saith, that he, being a Resident in Windsor in the same County was about the twenty Ninth Day of August last made prisoner by one Benj Whiting on a Process that issued out of the Court of Vice Admiralty, & having been kept by S4 Whiting and others . he had given the care of the Deponent to, with great severity. Viz. Guarded with loaded Pistols, Clubs, &¢. And threatened to be shot, beat, & the Sd Whiting sent the Deponent, and his Brother William (then a Prisoner) under the care of one Benja Wait, & James Rosebrook, from Windsor, to Hinsdale, that passing thro'? Westminister, where the Depot his 'S¢ Brother & their §4 keepers lodged, Viz. at Mr Ranneys: we there found M" John Grout Attorney at Law, and this Deponent & his S¢ Brother . told him the usage they had met with & the Terrors they had been kept under by S¢ Whiting, Wait and Rosebrook & Mr