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

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them all on Process from the Court of Vice Admiralty in New York aforesaid for cutting down White Pine Trees. That this Deponent then asked the said Benjamin Whiting which Way he intended to carry them whether thro' the Governments of Massachusetts Bay and Connecticut or thro' the Woods to Albany the Reason of which Question was that Hindsdale where the said Prisoners then were lies severall miles below the Road leading to Albany That the said Benjamin then made answer that he was undetermined which way he should go for that Mr. Jones and Mr. Grout had told him that by the Laws of the Massachusetts a Provision was made for Officers of the other Governments to carry Prisoners thro'' their Jurisdiction if needful. That this Deponent then replied he knew of no such Law that if there was any such it would be much the easiest Way but advised him to be certain of it before he went that going thro' the Woods to Albany would be attended with great Difficulty and put him to the Expence of a Guide for Part of the Way and this Deponent further saith that upon asking the said Benjamin Whiting what 'Ground there was for a Process against the said Ebenezer Fisher he answered that Mr.