them to disperse and surrender up his Prisoner, telling them they were acting against Law that thereupon they damned the Laws of New York, and said they had better Laws of their own, and finally obliged the said Constable and his assistants to fly for their Lives.

F. And this Deponent further saith, that since the obstruction given to the Commissioners as abovementioned the universal Report in that Country hath been, that the Claimants, under New Hampshire, thereabouts, had in general confederated to resist by Force of Arms, the Execution of the Laws of New York which might affect their Claims under New Hampshire and to oppose in like manner the apprehending of any of them for any offences relative thereto.

G. And this Deponent further saith that on the Twenty ninth Day of November last to this Deponents best Remembrance Henry Ten Eyck Esq the Sheriff of the County of Albany came to this Deponents House with a proclamation of his Excellency Lord Dunmore of the 1st Nov" last, by which the said Sheriff was commanded to apprehend Silas Robinson and others for a second Riot and obstruction to the Partition of Wallumshack that the said Sheriff desired this Deponent as a magistrate to attend on that service, the Sheriff apprehending violent Resistance, that this Deponent went with him keeping the woods as much as possible to prevent being discovered to the House of Ebenezer Cole, in whom this Deponent placed Confidence, that the said Cole and his son informed them that the People of Bennington expected the Sheriff, and were under arms, as they had been informed by many People passing the Road, and one of them advised this Deponent not to go, That nevertheless this Deponent the said Sheriff and his Deputy went to the Northern Bounds of Bennington where the said Silas Robinson dwelt, and apprehended him at his own Door, and immediately by the advice of the Deponent to prevent a Rescue, immediately proceeded back for the City of Albany, by the same road they had come, tho' the nearest Road lay thro Bennington, which they thought it not prudent to follow, understanding the Rioters were assembled about the House of one Stephen Fay in the Town.-- That the same Evening they lodged with their prisoner at the