of the said Benjamin Whiting Captain Dean Father of the

aforesaid William and Willard Dean against whom as the said Benjamin Whiting told this Deponent Process had also issued from the said court of vice Admiralty came to Brattleborough that the Deponent advised him to go to New York and surrender himself for Trial which he promised he would do and did go with that Intent but was taken on his Way by the said Benjamin

NEW HAMPSHIRE GRANTS. 659

Whiting as this Deponent has been informed and believes to be true and further this Deponent saith not. °

Sam. WELLs. Sworn this twentieth Day of August In the year of our Lord 1770 Before me

Dan HorsmManpEn.

City of New York ss: James Duane of the City of New York 'Esqt being duly sworn by the direction of his Honour the Lieutenant Governor and Council Deposeth and saith That in the month of October in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and sixty nine he was applied to by William Dean and his sons Willard aud William Deane whom he understood to be Inhabitants of Windsor in the County of Cumberland to defend them on an Information in the Court of vice Admiralty of this: Province at the suit of his Excellency John

Wentworth Esq" Surveyor of the King's woods in America for .

destroying Pine Trees on which they were then confined in the common Goal of the City of New York That the Deponent believing from their Representations and several Depositions they laid before him'that it was a hard Prosecution undertook their