688 CONTROVERSY RESPECTING THE

House of Capfain Cornelius Van Ness at Sanchoick That towards morning the House was surrounded by a number of armed men about Forty as this Deponent has been Informed--That this Deponent asked them what they wanted and was answered they demanded Silas Robinson forthwith and that they would have him.--That the Persons in the House prepared for Defence, and this Deponent sent a Lad whom he put out of the window secretly, to call the neighbours to their assistance, this being an old settlement That this Deponent told the Rioters that if they wished themselves well, they had better go off, That nevertheless they remained til Dawn of Day, this Deponent expecting every minute that they would force the House. At Length as Day approached they went off discharging their arms, and soon after the Sheriff proceeded with his Prisoner, this Deponent having procured him a party to escort him until he was out of Danger.

H. And this Deponent further saith, that he remembers nine Ejectments were brought by the Proprietors under. New York against the settlers under New Hampshire--against Samuel Rose and three others in Prince Town--Isaiah Carpenter and Justin Ollin on a Tract Granted in New York to Major Small a reduced officer, James Breakenridge in Wallumschack Patent, and against two other Persons on a Tract of Land granted to Rev4 Michael Slaughter a Reduced Regimental Chaplain. That soon after this Deponent heard frequent accounts that the claimants under New Hampshire, declared the New York Proprietors. would never bring them to Trial--and that they were only brought to frighten them into an agreement, but that they were determined to make no Terms with the New York Proprietors.