That your petitioner in vain flattered himself, that the provision made by the Legislature at the last Session, for preventing disorders, so disgraceful to Government, would have checked their Insolence, and contributed to the Redress aud security of the peaceable Inhabitants: But such is the Temper of those violent men hardened by a Repetition of the most enormous offences, that, instead of being awed into submission or forbearance, they are actually proceeding in the accomplishment of the iniquitous Resolutions which they long since formed of laying violent Hands on all who will not involve themselves in their Crimes, plundering them of their property and expelling them from the Country.

That in pursuance of this ruinous project they on the twenty sixth day of January last, with an armed Power seized and bound your Petitioner ; violently forced him from his residence, kept him in close confinement for several days ; tryed him before

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a mock Tribunal; condemned him to receive two hundred 'stripes on his naked Back ; carried that ignominious sentence into the severest execution ; and then banished him from the Country on pain of receiving five hundred Lashes in case he should be found within what they assume as their Jurisdiction. That although they had thus satiated their vengeance upon your petitioner and seen him bleeding and: fainting under his . wounds; and tho' they had dragged him suddenly from his house without giving him Time to provide himself fora journey or to'settle his affairs, they would not suffer him to return to his Family fora day ; but insisted that he should go forward towards this City of New York, or Albany ; and to add to their arrogance 'publickly gave him a Certificate; that he had received full punishment for the crime with which they had charged him ; to which Ethan Allen and Seth Warner, two of their principal Leaders, did not hesitate to Subseribe their Names.