City of New York ss: Sanpy Trupsy of Fairfield in the Colony of Connecticut Farmer of full age being sworn deposeth and Saith. that about the latter end of January last he saw Benjamin Hough of the County of Charlotte Esq at the House of Michael Veel at a place called Danby in the said County. That the said Benjamin Hough was then a prisoner and guarded by a number of men, of whom Peleg Sunderland (who is called one of the Captains of the Mob) appeared to have the command.

*That the Deponent there saw one of the Mob strike the said Benjamin Hough on his Head once or twice with a sheathed Cutlass upon which the Deponent who was a stranger to the said Mob as well as to the said Benjamin Hough from Motives of Humanity interfered and entreated them not to use him in that Manner And the Deponent further saith that he afterwards saw the said Benjamin Hough at the Honse of Justus Sherwood at Sunderland in the said County, where he was also kept in close custody by the said Rioters. That this Deponent was informed by several of the Rioters that the said Benjamin Hough had been tryed found guilty and condemned to receive two hundred

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Lashes and that they had accordingly laid them on well: but ' this Deponent was not present at either of the said Transactions. That John Sawyer of Arlington informed this Deponent that he had giyen the said Benjamin Hough fifty of the said Lashes well