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

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into the Room where the deponent with his wife & some others' of his Family were in Bed. That Ethan Allen with some curses ordered the Deponent to rise and go with'them and told the deponent that he had been a damned old offender and the Township of Durham a Hornets Nest in their way and they were now determined to put an End to it by making them concede to take and hold their Lands. under New Hampshire and submit to the Rules of their Mobb, or by destroying their property and making them quit the Country. That the Deponent not being able to dress himself as quickly as the said Baker and Allen thought nécessary the said Ethan Allen struck the deponent a severe Blow on the Head with a Gun. That in the mean Time several other Men armed with Guns had rushed into the Room and many others of them had their Guns put in and pointed thro' the windows whiist the Deponent was puting on his Cloathes. That the said Remember Baker and Ethan Allen with their associates then hurried away the deponent about two miles over a Hill to the House of Thomas Green in Kelso where they put him under the Guard of four men with loaded Guns.