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Documentary History of the State of New York, Vol. IV

O'Callaghan, E.B., ed. The Documentary History of the State of New York, Vol. IV. Albany: Weed, Parsons and Co., 1851. 250 words

That a Number of Men came out of the said House and ordered the deponent into the said House. That the Deponent believes that the Number of Men there assembled were upwards of Thirty. That many of the persons there assembled alledged that they had heavy crimes to alledge against the deponent and that Seth Warner and Remember Baker (who are Captains of the Mobb) appointed three persons to sit as Judges and try the Deponent. That they appointed Samuel Tubbs Nathaniel Spencer and the said Philip Perry to be the deponents Judges. That when the .

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said Judges were appointed they went into a Room by themselves and being placed on a Bench the Deponent was brought before them under a Guard of armed Men. That Seth Warner then accused the Deponent with having purchased Lands under Title derived by and under his Majesty's Grants under the Great Seal and Jurisdiction of this Colony of New York, and of Discouraging Settlers from setling in the said Colony or Province under Titles derived by the New Hampshire Grants. and farther accused the Deponent with having aecepted the Commission of a Justice of the peace in the said County of Charlotte and of having qualifyed and acted as a Justice of the peace in pursuance thereof. That Remember Baker then charged the deponent with the same offences as he called them and farther charged the deponent with having reproved him for Damning the Governor of the Province