Cuyler Esq™ went

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up towards a number of the said Persons who had placed themselves near the said House in order to summons them to assist the said Sheriff to take the possession but that when this Deponent and the said Abraham C. Cuyler approached near them they ordered this Deponent and the said Abraham C. Cuyler to stand off and this Deponent has great reason to think that if the said Sheriff had attempted to break open the said House he would have been in the utmost Danger of losing his Life and all those that would have assisted him in the attempt. / ss eNO R. BLEECKER. Sworn before me this 12th Day

of October 1771.

Asm C. Curter Mayor

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AFFIDAVIT OF CHRISTOPHER P. YATES.

City of Albany ss. CuristopHer P. Yates of the City of Albany, Attorney at Law, being duly sworn deposeth and saith, _ That some Time in July last, He was summoned by Henry Ten Eyck Esq? Sheriff of the County of Albany, as one of the Posse to assist him to dispossess, James Breakenage and Josiah Fuller from Farms and: Messuages which had been recovered against them by Due Course of Law, That pursuant to his summons he repaired to the Place appointed by the Sheriff for the Posse to meet, That from thence the Sheriff with about one hundred and thirty men proceeded to Breaknage's House, and by the way found a Bridge taken up where the Rioters gave the Sheriff to understand that they would not give up the possession, upon which the Sheriff ordered his posse to follow him to the House, That when the Sheriff came up to the House, he knocked at the Door and demanded entrance which the people from within refused That there were a very large Number of men assembled with arms to oppose the posse, & this Deponent further saith that when the sheriff called for an axe to force Entrance into the House a Number of men in a Field adjoining arose and if