That this Deponent also observed that the said House had been put in a posture of Defence there being a number of Loop holes made in it and by their having as this Deponent understood secured or barricaded the Door, and that a number of persons were in the House, That very few of the Posse accompening the Sheriff were armed, That therefore this Deponent Judged it would have been rashness in the Sheriff and Posse to have proceeded to violence in order to gain the Possession as the certain consequence in this Deponents opinion would have been the Loss of some of their Lives, and that without the Posse being in capacity to resist them on equal Terms That therefore after. the Posse or part thereof had remained sometime by and near the House of Breakinridge they returned, that the said Sheriff Before the Posse had proceeded on their return above a quarter of a mile, that he had also a writt of possession for the farm of one Fuller and requested. him this Deponent and others to assist him in taking possession of the same, That this Deponent was ready to attend him, but seeing that most of the Posse made off for their respective abodes, he this Deponent did also return to which he was the more readily induced from the consideration of the Little Probability there was that the Sheriff could succeed in gaining this Latter Possession when he had been so unsuccessful in the attempt on Brakenridge and further this Deponent saith not. | Gyspert G. Marsexis. Sworn this Twelfth day of October 1771, Before me Vorxert P. Dovw.