Documentary History of the State of New York, Vol. IV
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
730 CONTROVERSY RESPECTING THE
Esq: one of his Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the County of Albany, deposing that on the night of the second of August last, and on or about the Hour of twelve or one o'clock a number of Men came to the Deponents House in a Riotous manner, and turned the Deponent his Wife and Children out of Doors, and then pulled the said House to the ground ; and that Seth Warner, of Bennington was Captain of the said Mob and that Elnathan Huble and Amos' Mateson were amongst the said Rioters, with many others whose Names the Deponent knows not--His Excellency the Governor with the advice of the Council recommended it to Mr Chief Justice Horsmanden to issue his Warrant to the High Sheriff of the City and County of Albany, forthwith to apprehend the said Seth Warner, Elnathan Huble, and Amos 'Mateson and them and every one of them to carry before one of his Majesty's Justices of the Supreme Court of this Colony to be examined touching the premises and dealt with according to Law.