That as the Deponent with three other persons were approaching to the Mobb he was met by the said Baker and by Peleg Sunderland and Asa Johnson, and the said Baker beat one of the persons who came with the Deponent several Blows with a pole and insisted that the Deponent should call together all the people of Durham to their Judgment seat-- That on some Conversation with Seth Warner about their proceedings Warner said such affairs as were got into the Mobb, must be determined by the Mobb for they could not be got out of the Mobb.--That soon afterwards Remember Baker erected

a seat which they called a Judgment seat and Ethan Allen then 'made a Harangue and declared that the proprietors of the New

Hampshire Grants had appointed himself, Seth Warner, Remem-

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ber Baker and Robert Cockran, to inspect and set things in Order relating to, and see that there should bé no intruders on the New Hampshire Grants. That the said Ethan Allen, Seth Warner, Remember Baker and Robert Cochran then took their seats on the said Judgment seat and ordered the said Benjamin Spencer Esq' to stand before them, to take off his Hatt and hear accusations against him. That Ethan Allen then charged and accused the said' Benjamin Spencer Esquire with the following matters in Effect, to wit, with cudling with the Land Jobbers of New York to prevent the claimants of the New Hampshire Rights from holding the Lands they claimed ; and with issuing a Warrant as a Justice of the peace contrary to their Orders ; and Remember Baker charged him with having accepted a Commission as Magistrate in the Colony of New York and of having acted as a Magistrate in pursuance thereof contrary to their Orders ; and of having represented their bad Conduct in a Letter by him wrote and sent to New York; and of having conveyed a piece of Land by Title derived under a Grant obtained in the Colony of New York ; and' with endeavouring to seduce and inveigle the people to be Subject to the Laws and Government of the Colony of New York.