as your Petitioner in imploring the Assistance of Government has no other view than his own and the Security of the other Sufferers, against future Insults unconnected with any Contest respecting the Property of the Soil, he humbly conceives a very small Body of Men will effectually answer this purpose ; And the Facts asserted by your Petitioner being proved by his own and the Depositions of Benjamin Spencer, Jacob Marsh, Nathan Rice, Anna Button, and others that have been presented to your Excellency.

Your Petitioner therefore most humbly beseeches your Excellency totake the Promisses into Consideration, and to Grant such Relief to the distressed Setlers under this Province, as your Exceilency in your great Wisdom shall judge expedient in their present truely deplorable Situation.

And your petitioner shall ever pray &c Bensamin Hoven for himself and the rest of the Petitioners. New York 24 February 1774.

(Endorsed) 1774 March 234 Read in Council and ordered that.his Excellency transmit a Copy thereor together with the depositions referred to the House of Assembly.

THE BENNINGTON MOB ERECT THEIR JUDGMENT SEAT. ©

FURTHER PARTICULARS OF THEIR .EXCESSES.

Charlotte County ss: Brnzamin Spencer of the Township of Durham in Charlotte County Esq' one of his Majesty's Justices to keep the Peace in the said County assigned being duely sworn on the holy Evangelists deposeth and saith That in the night of Saturday the Twentieth Day of November last past he the deponent was alarmed with the Noise of People breaking into his House, and the outward door of his house being broken and beat down with an ax Remember Baker and Ethan Allen rushed