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. And the Deponent further saith that after he had been so abused the said Ethan Allen delivered him a paper in writing signed by him and Seth Warner in the words and figures following to wit,

"Sunderland January the 80th Day AD1775. This may certify the Inhabi- "tants of the New Hampshire Grants that Benjamin Hough hath this Day rec'd a 'full punishment for his crimes committed heretofore against this Country and 'our Inhabitants. are ordered to give him the sd Huff free and unniolested Pasport " toward the City of New York or to the Westward of our Grants he behaving "as becometh Given under our Hands the Day and Date aforesaid.

" Eraan ALLEN " Seth WARNER"

And he this Deponent having recovered his strength the next Day proceeded on Foot on his Journey towards the City of New York. That while this Deponent was in custody of the said Rioters he heard the said Ethan Allen say, that he expected they should be obliged to drive off all the Durhamites (meaning the Inhabitants of the Town of Durham in the County of Charlotte.) That this Deponent frequently heard the said Rioters Declare that they would have little Walker (meaning Daniel Walker) and Thomas Bracton (the Constable that served under this Deponent) if they could be found above Ground and that they further threatened that they would for the future be more severe