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. That a Copy hereof be transmitted to the said Sheriff, and that he do report to his Excellency his proceedings in Consequence thereof.

His Excellency laid before the Board a Letter from Samuel Wells Esq" one of the Judges of the Superior Court of Common pleas for the County of Cumberland, inclosing the Affidavit of Nathaniel Howe, whereby it appears that Messieurs Whiting and Grout, who were lately employed by Governor Wentworth to trace Connecticut to its source, had pursued an Easterly instead of the Northerly Branch, which Easterly Branch they had returned as the Head of Said River.