The Deponent further saith that during the Time the Rioters were imployed in the destruction of his House and the Mill, which was situated on the Crown Point Side of the River called Otter Creek, he heard them give Orders to six of their number with their Arms to go and stand Centry on a rising Ground towards Crown Point to prevent any surprize from the Troops in the Garrison there, as he believes 'they were apprehensive of a Visit from that Quarter, and that as soon as they had finished the Destruction of the Mill and the Deponent's House, they retired in their Canoes hastily to the opposite side of the River from whence they came, That the Deponent was much surprized to see among the Rioters Joshua Hide one of the three men who had entered into a written obligation with Colonel Reid not to return again, and to whom Colonel Reid on that account had paid a sum of Money for his Crop. Which said Joshua Hide appeared very active .in advising the Destruction of the Deponents House and of the Mill, and the Deponent further Remembers to have heard Colonel Reid accuse the said Hide of breaking open the Door of the House of which he had taken Possession about the beginning of Summer which the said Hide acknowledged. That the Deponent heard one of the Rioters whose name he thinks was Warner acknowledge that he and a number of his Companions had on that occasion come a great Way from home, that they had been four Days on the Road ; and had travelled one hundred and twenty Miles. That the Deponent did remain about three weeks at Otter Creek after the Rioters dispersed, in hopes of hearing from Colonel Reid, and that the Government of New York would fall on some Method of Protecting him and his fellow Settlers from any further violence from the Rioters, but that having no House and being VoL.