That thereupon this Deponent immediately had his Clothes taken off and he was stripped to the skin, and four persons being by the said pretended Court appointed to carry the said sentence into Execution this Deponent accordingly received the two hundred Lashes on his naked Back with whips of cords; which Lashes were inflicted by each of the said Executioners giving the Deponent alternately a Number of Lashes, tho' at the close he thinks he received from each of them ten. That the said Robert Cochran who declared himself to be Adjutant of the Rioters stood during the whole scene near this Deponent and frequently urged the said Executioners to lay on their Blows well and, to strike harder and particularly repeated such Directions with respect to the last ten inflicted by each of the said Executiogers. That it was often mentioned by . some of the Rioters, that if any of this Deponents Friends should intercede or in any Manner favour him they should share the same Fate. That the aforesaid Winthorp Hoyt of Bennington who professed himself to be Drum Major Abel Benedict of Arlington and John Sawyer and a person whose Name this Deponent could not learn were the four persons who so whipped this. Deponent. That this Deponent was very much wounded and.

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bled considerably by the said abuse; And the Deponent being very faint was put into the care: of one Doctor Washburn who conducted him into a House. That the Deponent declared to the Rioters, that it was a great Hardship, that he was not suffered to take care of his Interest & Child who was left without Father or Mother ; the deponent's wife being absent on a distant visit to her parents. That the Rioters notwithstanding insisted that the sentence should be put in Execution and the Deponent leave the Country accordingly.