That they afterwards determined to hold their Court near the Deponents House that they might more conveniently destroy it, and with the deponent guarded by Armed men at each side they went to the deponents House That their force by that Time collected amounted to between one Hundred and Thirty and one hundred and fifty Men as the deponent believes all Armed with Guns. That soon afterwards Remember Baker, principall, erected what they called the Judgment Seat and Ethan Allen having made a Harangue to the Mobb, the said Ethan Allen and Seth Warner, Remember Baker and Robert Cockran took their Seats as Judges, & the Deponent being ordered by them to stand before them uncovered was by them accused in Substance as follows; first,

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that he had made application to the Government of New York to obtain a Grant or Title to his Lands and had induced Other persons to Join with him in such applications; and secondly that he had consented to and acted in pursuance ofa Commission of the Peace issued under the Great Seal & Government of New York contrary to their Orders and Rules; and thirdly that he the deponent had formerly granted or issued a warrant against one of their party for a Trespass with which he was charged; and fourthly for using his Influence with and inducing the people to pay respect and obedience to the Government and Laws of the Colony or Province of New York with some other Charges of the like kind. That the said Remember Baker and many of his Bystanding adherents insisted on giving the deponent Corporal punishment and having him whipped, That as they would not all agree to that they spared the Deponent of Corporal punishment, but as they found the deponent had not purchased a New Hampshire Title to his Land they adjudged his house to be a nuisance and that it should be burned.