NEW HAMPSHIRE GRANTS. 657

probably cause him to be arrested if he travelled with his Prisoners that Way But the Deponent denies he ever knew that Mr Grout was gone before that Time and this Deponent further saith that on the next Day being Tuesday the fifth Day of September aforesaid in the afternoon the said Benjamin Whiting with two of his Assistants Wait & Rosebrook and the said Willard and William Dean his Prisoners came to a Saw Mill belonging to this Deponent adjoining to the high Road on their Journey to Albany that the said Major Arms who was then at this Deponents said Mill gave the said Benjamin Whiting and those with him an Invitation to stop at his House on their Way and. take some Refreshment which they accepted of that thereupon they al] went together to the House of the said Major Arms who provided a Dinner for the said Benjamin Whiting and those who were with him That this Deponent sent to His the said Deponents House for Rum and having made some Liquor they all drank and conversed freely together That during their Stay there this Deponent at the Request of the said Benjamin Whiting advised the Prisoners as they had but little money with them, to give M' Whiting an Obligation under their Hands for the Repayment of what he should lay out in their Expenses upon the Road' and they agreeing to such his Proposal he drew the said Obligation and they executed it accordingly And this Deponent further saith that having drank freely and sociably tegether for some time he told the said Benjamin Whiting in a jesting Way that if he had gone thro' Massachusets Grout would have arrested him and the Prisoners would have been at Liberty and others of the Company bantered him in the same manner upon which he the said Benjamin Whiting grew angry and intimated that this Deponent had sent Grout on that Errand Upon which the said Deponent told him he was so far from designing any thing of that Kind that he never knew M' Grout was gone thither till he the . said Benjamin Whiting informed him of it.