That the mock Court, before which your Petitioner was thus abused consisted of the following persons to wit, Ethan Allen, Seth Warner, Robert Cochran, Peleg Sunderland, James Mead, Gideon Warren, and Jesse Sawyer, who acted in the double office of Accusers and Judges ; That no less than four other persons were appointed to execute their sentence, to wit Winthrop Hoyt of Bennington, Abel Benedict of Arlington John Sawer, & - another with whose Name your petitioner is unacquainted ; and that each of them alternatly whipped your petitioner till the full Number of two hundred stripes were inflicted.

That the only provocation which they pretended for this barbarous treatment was that your petitioner had complained 'to 'Government of their former Misconduct towards the Magistrates and Inhabitants of the said Counties ; that he had discouraged people from joining them in their unwarrantable proceedings ; and that he had accepted and exercised the office of a magistrate

- for the said county of Charlotte contrary to their Injunctions. That the said Rioters have publickly proclaimed their inten- . tion to treat every other Inhabitant who will not unite with them in their flagitious practices with the same severity. 'That the 'intolerable Grievances. which your petitioner and others have sustained and the Dangers they are daily exposed to,

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from the said Rioters, are more fully set forth in the several Depcsitions of your petitioners Daniel Walker and Sandy Truebywhich are herewith presented to your Honour, and to which. to avoid: prolixity he begs.leave to refer.