any other Person as he knows of, that as to a Number of People following Whiting, & others this Deponent, had not the least expectation of such a thing, and cannot guess what moved the people to it unless it was this, that when Whiting moved off with the Deponent & his said Brother he rode on Horseback, & the Prisoners went on Foot, they did not Travel so fast as he inclined to ride, upon which he told this Deponent, & his s4 Brother, that unless they traveled faster he would tie them together with Ropes or Straps, and throw them across his Horse, atid carry them that way, or tie them to the Tail of his Horse. What makes this deponent believe these threats Occasioned the people to Assemble, and follow as afores4 is this, that when they came to Mr Stockwell, where Whiting & the Prisoners lodged, & found the Prisoners had not been used in the Manner threatned as afores¢

they committed no Violences. Witiarp Dray

Sworn before me this 11th day of July 1770 OL® WILLARD.

County of Cumberland ss: William Dean Brother to the above Willard Dean Being duly Sworn, did depose and say, after Reeding the aforegoing deposition, that he knows the contents thereof

to be just and true. Witiiam Dean Jtunr

Sworn before me the 11th day of July 1770. Ox? WILuarp.,

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City of New York ss. Samven Wexus of the Township of Brattleborough in the County of Cumberland and Province of New York Esq' being duly sworn upon the Holy Evangelists of Almighty God deposeth and saith that on the Second Day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and sixty nine Benjamin Whiting Esqt came to his House and told him he was going to Doctor Wells's and about an hour and an half or two Hours after returned with Ebenezer Fisher who he said was his Prisoner and that Willard and William Deane were likewise his Prisoners at Hinsdale and that he had taken