That in the night of Saturday the Twentieth day of November last past the Deponent was informed that a Company of Men distinguished by the Name of the Mob were come into Durham and had seized Benjamin Spencer, Esquire one of his Majesty's Justices of the peace in the said County and had him under Guard as a prisoner, That the Deponent with Two Neighbors came to Durham, arm'd; and found the said Benjamin Spencer at the House of Thomas Green in Kelso under.a Guard: of Men armed. That:when the deponent came to the House where the said Benjamin Spencer was 'detained it was early in the Morning on the Sabbath---That the Deponent found there Ethan Allen as Captain or Leader of the Mobb; & that Remember Baker another of the Captains of the Mobb with some of the Mobb with him arm'd soon came in there from a house inthe Neighborhood That he the deponent entered into Conversation with the said Ethan Allen to know the causes or reasons of their Conduct; That Allen used many Curses and Imprecations on the people of the province of New York by the Name of Yorkers, and said the day of Judgment was come VoL. tv. 55

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when every man should be Judged according to his works, with much other Language of that kind; and told the deponent that the people of Durham frequently had warning enough; That if they ever had come to Durham again they would Lay all Durham in Ashes and leave every person in it a Corpse. That finally both the said Alleh & Baker assigned as the reasons of their conduct that the people of Durham had submitted to the Laws and: Government of New York which they would not permit or suffer them to continue to do. «That they both declared they would whip the said Benjamin Spencer Esq* and burn his House.