884 CONTROVERSY RESPECTING THE

his hired Servant who assisted him therein, from the Threats of the said Rioters, has been intimidated & left his service, That this Deponent conceives his own Life is so much in Danger from the-open attacks & threats of the said Rioters, that he cannot think of returning to his Habitation, without some assistance from the Government, as he verily believes that the said Rioters will either privately, or openly, destroy him if they have an opportunity, and that he knows of no Reason he has given for their Malice towards him, except his applying for protection when he conceived himself and his Neighbors to be in imminent Danger, & saw them greatly insulted & abused; & his accepting his Majesty's Commission as a Magistrate of the said en and further the Deponent saith not.

Bensa™ Hoven. Sworn this Twenty fourth Day of z

August 1774. - Before me Danu. HorsmManpeEn.

APPLICATION FOR A MILITARY FORUE

TO SUPPORT THE CIVIL AUTHORITIES OF CHARLOTTE COUNTY.

In Councit September 1st 1774.

The Petition and Deposition of Benjamin Hough one of His Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the County of 'Charlotte, also the Depositions of Benjamin Spencer Esq? Jacob Marsh Esq' Amos: Chamberlain, Jeremiah Gardenier, Daniel Walker, Philip Nicolls, Thomas Brayton, and Daniel Washburn all of the same County, were laid before the Board, whereby it appears that the Riotous proceedings of some of the Settlers in the said County of Charlotte do not only continue but have so far increased that they have Erected two Fortresses in the said County, one at Onion River and the other at Otter Creek, and openly threaten the Lives: and Properties of all those who Profess to maintain Peace and' good Order, and are Friends to this Government, and the said Petition humbly Praying his Honor to take the Case of