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.

That your Petitioner is fully perswaded that unless some protection is provided for the said suffering inhabitants, they will soon be cruelly insulted and abused in their persons ; plundered of their property; and driven from their. Habitations in the utmost wretchedness and distress.

Your. Petitioner therefore in behalf of himself and those much injured and unhappy people once more implores the Interposition of Government for their preservation : humbly hoping that they will not be suffered thus to fall victims to the Fury of a licentious and ungovernable Mob: but that they will be rescued from the ruin which hangs over them, and placed in that state of security, for which in a British Government no loyal subject ever sued in vain. And your petitioner as in duty bound shall ever pray &¢

Beysamin Hoveu. (Endorsed 1775,Mareh 9th Read in Council.)

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AFFIDAVIT IN SUPPORT OF THE PRECEDING PETITION.

TRIAL AND SENTENCE OF REV. BENJAMIN HOUGH.

City of New York, ss. Brysamin Hoven one of His Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the County of Charlotte being duly Sworn on the holy Evangelists of Almighty God, deposeth & saith, that on or about the twenty Six day of January last past about eight.o'clock, in the morning, this Deponent being at some distance from His.