That thereupon Colonel Reid did give peaceable possession to the Deponent and his other Tenants in the Presence of two Justices of the Peace for Charlotte County, and the Deponent had not the least suspicion in Consequence of the fair and open part which Colonel Reid acted, that he or Colonel Reid's other Tenants would have been disturbed in their Possessions. That Colonel Reid did also Purchase a Quantity of Provision and some Milch Cows for his Tenants who have been supported'at his Expence, and did more

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for them than they expected or he engaged to do, That notwithstanding of this on or about the Eleventh Day of August last the Deponent heard that a N umber of Armed men from different Parts of the Country were coming. to dispossess Colonel Reid's Tenants, That they accordingly went and turned James Henderson & others out of their Houses which they set Fire to and burnt to the Ground, that for two Days together they let loose about Fifty Horses which they brought with them in a Field of Corn which Colonel Reid had Purchased, and they likewise burnt a large Stack of Hay which he also Purchased in-the same Manner from three of their own People who had moved off, That the Rioters on the Day following came to the Deponents House, headed by Allen and Baker anda third Person whose name he thinks is Warner, whom he discoverd from hearing them called Captains and named by the Mob. That the Rioters then proceeded to destroy a new Grist Mill which Colonel Reid has lately built, and which the Deponent endeavored to dissuade them from, but the said Baker in particular insisted that it should be pulled down, and gave Orders Accordingly which were immediately obeyed, and after they had destroyed and tore down the Mill the Deponent saw them break the Mill stones in pieces which they threw down a precipice into the River.