That as soon ,as, this Measure was effected the Deponent returned to his place of Residence and as a Magistrate of the said County dispersed & published the said proclamation & act of Legislature & inculcated & recommended to the said Riotous persons a more peaceable & orderly Demeanor, and as no steps were taken with regard to the Lands possessed by the said New Hampshire Claimants, but they were suffered quietly to hold the same, This Deponent hoped the said Rioters would have permitted their Neighbours, differing from them in Conduct and Sentiment. to live in peace & security, But this Deponent,saith that some time in the month of April last there was a meeting of the said Rioters, in cénsequence of the said act. of Legislature and proclamation, where it was resolved by them that any person or per sons, Within the Lands claimed by them, who had or should accept a commission or commissions of the peace, should by them in general be deemed an Enemy to their Country and: Common Cause, That. shortly after a paper was delivered to this Deponent signed by one Jonas Fay clerk of the said meeting, in the following words (to wit)

* Gentlemen the following is proposed whether it be to your minds that any 'person or persons in the New Hampshire Grant under the present situation of ' affairs that have or shall presume to take commission or commissions of the 'peace shall by the Grantees in general be deemed an Enemy to their Country '"& Common cause untill his Majesties pleasure in the premesis be further known; '' passed in the affirmative all yeas & No Nays at a general meeting holden at a Manchester 12th Day of April A. D. 1774 and by adjournment to the 13th.