nent accordingly made his Escape, and the next Evening, (as he is informed by his Wife and Brother, who remained in his House at Wallumscock) the Rioters came to the said House, to the number of One Hundred, some of whom disfigured with Black; others with wigs and Horse Tails, and Women's caps and other Disguises ; and armed with Guns, Swords, Pistols, and clubs ; and ransacked and searched the House to discover the Deponent ; and swore they would have him, if they went down to Kinderhook for him; to which Place his Wife said she informed the said Rioters, that the Deponent had fled. And the Deponent further saith, that the night after the Sheriff returned with the Posse, from an unsuccessful Attempt to serve a Writ of Possession on the Farm of James Brackenridge, in Wallumscok Patent aforesaid ; The Deponent received great Injury, as he verily believes, from the said Rioters, having near two hundred Pannels of his Fence taken up and burnt in a Heap, with a large stack of Hay. That the Deponent is informed by his Wife and Brother, and several of his Neighbours, that in the last mentioned Night, when the said Rioters came to search for him as aforesaid, they overset the remaining part of his stacks of Hay, and scattered and rolled it thro' the Mud and Filth about the Field, and Flung down the remaining Part of his Fences. And the Deponent further saith, that he does verily believe that he was in great Danger of his Life from the said Rioters, It having been frequently reported, that the Deponent would be cropt, gelt, and whipped by the said Rioters, and tied up to a Tree with a Gag in his Mouth, ahd so starved to Death, and the Deponent saith, that for the Preservation of his Life, he has been obliged to fly from, and leave his said Farm, and that he is now afraid to return, tho' he conceives his Estate there to be a comfortable Provision for his Family, if he could enjoy it in quiet, he having been at great Labour and Expence in Improvements, and that he should have been reduced, with his Wife and Children, to the greatest Distress, had he aft been relieved by the kindness of his Brother, who had taken him and his Wife and Children into his House at Kinderhook.