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

with the damned Yorkers (meaning persons: who would not join with them in their riotous proceedings) and would whip them within an Inch of their Lives. That for the future they would not be at the trouble and expence of giving them a Trial; but that the persons who met with should punish them immediately. That this Deponent while he was so confined heard the said Rioters further declare, that they were sorry that they had not inflicted upon Doctor Adams (who lived in Arlington and Vou. Iv. 57 ;

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against whom they had taken offence) five hundred lashes instead of hoisting him up & exposing. him upon Landlord Fay's Sign post, where was fixed a dead Catamount. 'That this Deponent also heard the said Ethan Allen declare in the said Mob that he expected shortly to haye a fight with the damned Yorkers, for that they would hear how the Mob had abused their Magistrates, but that he believed them to be damned Cowards or that they would have come out against them long before. That this Deponent on his way to New York called at the house of Bliss Willoughby and Ebenezer Cole Esq" twoof his Majesties Justices of the Peace for the County of Albany residing near Bennington.