A True Copy from the Minutes of Council Attest' Gro: Kine Depy Seey,

JUDGE LORD TO GOV. TRYON.

Putney January 29. A. D. 1772.

To his Excellency Witt1am Tryon Esq® Capt™ General Governor & Comander in chief in & over his majesies Province of New York in America & & pee Joseph Lord Esq' one of the Judges of the Court

of Comon Pleas for the County of Cumberland, Beg's leave at this time (The other Two Judges being absent) to Represent.

Cumberland County

758 CONTROVERSY RESPECTING THE

That a Great Riot composed of Seventy or Eighty Persons on the Twenty Seventh Day of this Instant January hapened at Putney the town of bis Residence Consisting of People from the 'side of New Hampshire. The Facts are as Followeth--

One Jonas Moor of this Township in the Inferiour Court of

Comon Pleas at June Term last past Recovered.

Short account _ Judgment against one Leonard Spalding also of this

Township for about Forty Pounds including costs-- a Fieri Facias having issued to Satisfie the Judgment, on the goods and Chattels of said Spaulding, The Sherif by his Deputy Seized some Cattel & Goods of said Spaulding to Satisfie the Same, which he committed into the hands of said Moor to keep in his Dwelling house untill the Day by the Sherif appointed for the Sale of them. But before that Day vizt the Evening of the Twenty Seventh Instant a Partie from New Hampshire Side of the River to the number of Seventy or Eighty came to the house where the goods were Deposited, and broke open the Door, took the goods & carried them away, after insulting in various ways, said Moors Family &*. I have taken some Depositions, relating to this matter, as many I could, in so Short a time as I could