Their Houses they sentenced to be burned or demolished and compelled them to renounce their Commissions and engage that they would no longer execute the Duties of their Stations. The Coroner of the County they also attempted to seize, and because refusing to submit to their Tribunal he made his Escape, they sentenced his House to be burned to the Ground, which was vigorously executed in open day; and not contented with this Revenge they hunted after and pursued him, openly proclaiming that if he should be discovered they would shoot him without Mercy. That they have forwarned the Undersheriff of the County, from executing any

Process within what they call their District, on pain of Severe

Chastisement ; and have insulted the Commissioners of the Highways appointed by Law, declaring that they will not submit to any of their Regulations but will oppose all their Acts and Proceedings by Force of Arms. 'With the same flagitious spirit they have interposed in Disputes respecting private contracts ;

Rescued several Prisoners for Debt and in one Instance threaten-'

ed to beat the Plaintiff and to Demolish his House, unless he acquiesced, fined the Constable for executing the Process, and

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compelled him to engage that he would never serve as an Officer of Justice under the authority of New York.

That at the Time of their late Irruption into Durham, they openly avowed that in their next Visit they would reduce every House to Ashes and leave every Inhabitant a Corpse.