Tract granted to Edward Collins, James De Lancey, Gerardus Stuyvesandt Esquires, and others, the fifteenth day of June, one Thousand Seven Hundred Thirty Nine, by Letters Patent under the Great Seal of this Province, and this Deponent purchased them as such; and that the Deponent has been informed and verily believes that his said Farm lies within the Distance of seventeen Miles from Hudson's River ; And further this Deponent saith not SAMUEL GARDENIER. Sworn this 21st Day of September ; Anno Dom : 1771, before me DanreL HorsMAnpen.

And the Deponent, the said Samuel Gardenier, being again sworn, saith, that the above named Ichabod Cross, hath at several Times told this Deponent, that if the Sheriff should turn out of Possession, any of the People claiming or holding their Lands under New Hampshire, or any of them should be sent to Gaol they would raise a Mob and go in a Body to Albany, break open the Gaol there and take them out of Gaol; and the Deponent further says, that he understands it to be the intentions and Resolution of the said Claimants in general, to resist the Sheriff and any others who should assist him in the Execution of any Writs or Precepts issued under the Authority of the

Government of New York. SamurL GARDENIER.

Sworn before his Excellency the Governor in Council, at New York, the 234 of September 1771. Gw. Banyar, D. Cl. Con.

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ORDERS TO APPREHEND SEVERAL RIOTERS &C.

[Council Min. XXVI_]

In Councit 30' September, 1771. Upon reading this day at the Board a Deposition taken and Sworn to the 24 day of September Instant before John Munroe