740 CONTROVERSY RESPECTING THE

those that were in the house refused admittance to the Sheriff that the Sheriff ordered the writ of possession to be read which was accordingly Done that the party Lying Sout East of the house when the Sheriff knock at the door presented' their Guns at the Sheriff and his party and further this Deponent saith not.

Voixert P. Douw. Sworn before me this 12 Day of

October 1771. Prerer Lansinen, Alderman.

AFFIDAVIT OF JNO. R. BLEECKER.

Joun R. Brercker of the City of Albany of full age being duly sworn on the holy evangelist of Almighty God deposeth and saith, that some time in the month of J uly Jast past this Deponent was summoned by Henry Ten Eyck Junt Esq' high Sheriff of the City and County of Albany to assist the said Sheriff to take possession of the Houses and Farms of James Brackenridge and Josiah Fuller at Bennington, that this Deponent together with sundry other Persons went with the said Sheriff the Thursday next following after he had been so summoned as farr as Sankhaick and the next day escorted the said Sheriff accompanied by many other persons to the House of the said James Brackenridge, that this Deponent found a number of Persons about the said House armed with Clubs staves Guns and other offensive Weapons all unknown to this Deponent, that this Deponent understood that the said Persons so armed were met together with an Intent to oppose the said Sheriff to take possession of the said House and that they had placed themselves in such situations as if they Had expected to engage with an approaching Enemy, that the said Sheriff went up to the Door of the said House which was shut, and this Deponent was informed that there were a Number of armed Men in the said House who were determined to keep the said Sheriff & his associates out of -- the said House in Case: they should offer to take Possession of it, that this Deponent.and Abraham C.