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

of New York its Government and Laws and thretening to proceed as a Magistrate against him the said Baker for swearing and Blasphemy. That the said Baker farther alledged that the Deponent should be adjudged by the said Judges to be whipped for having acted in his office as a Magistrate after he had been forewarned and forbidden so to do by him the said Remember Baker. That he the Deponent was then ordered to make his Defence which when he had done he was removed from before the said persons appointed Judges and kept undera Guard untill he was called to hear Judgment. That the deponent was then charged and directed by the Judgment of the said Judges, which wasin writing and read to him by the said Seth Warner, in their presence and by their order, to the following Effect "Not to encourage any Settlements by persons settling under the Titles derived under the Government of New York but to discourage such settlements ; not to discourage any persons Settling under Titles derived from grants made by the Government of New Hampshire, and not to act as a Justice of. the peace by virtue of any Commission under the Government of New York upon the pain of having his house burned and reduced to ashes and his person punished at their pleasure." That the said Judges and their Mobb associates then consented to dismiss the Deponent, and gave him a certificate a true Copy whereof is in the word and figures following viz'.