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

have before Mr Grout sets out on his journey to New York, by --

whom I send this Letter, & transmitt the Depositions taken in this affair. I have farther to represent to your Excellency--That I being now arrived to the Sixty Eighth year of my age, Raisin orns & attended with the infirmities common to advanced Offices, Judge & | years, such as great Deafness, Loss of Memory dimness of Sight, and at times a paralitic tremor in my hands &* which disqualifie me for full, free & Perfect Discharge of the Offices of Second Judge of the Inferiour Court of Comon Pleas, & Justice of the Peace, which I have sustained in the County for several years last past, and having a desire to retire from Publick: business, and spend the remainder of my Days, in a calm retirement therefrom, & concern myself in

nothing else, but doing good to my numerous family & Neighbours,

& Praying for the KING, your Excellency, & all other the King's Officers, & Prepare for a Glorious Immorrauiry Therefore Humbly entreat your Excellency to appoint some other Person