That they broke or split down the outward door of the said House and also the door of the Room where the Deponent was in Bed. That the door of the Room they broke open and into Pieces with an Ax. That about Seven of the said armed Mobb came into the Room where the Deponent lay, and with many curses insisted on knowing where her said Husband was, and swore they would find him and have him either Dead or alive if he was on the face of God's Earth. That on the deponents endeavouring to represent to them their bad Conduct some of them said and threatned that if she did not hold her peace they would lay the House in Ashes before they went away; and one of them Threatned it should be all in Ashes either before the then Morrow night or before Monday night. That they searched the House with Fire brands in their hands and with parts of the doors of the Room which they carried about burning for Tapers. Thaton the next Monday the deponent saw Ebenezer Allen, George Patterson & three or four other persons who had been with them in the Saturday night before at breaking into the said House. That the said Ebenezer Allen acknowledged to her that it was himself who

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had on the Saturday night preceeding threatned to burn her husbands House and that it was George patterson who broke

down the Doors with an Ax. Anna Burton, Sworn the Eighth Day of December 1773 Before me Joun McKesson Not Pubs (Endorsed) Read in Council Jan 11 1774,