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

900 CONTROVERSY RESPECTING THE

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

laid on, and further saith not. : Sanpy TrRuesy,. Sworn this Seventh Day of March

. MDCCLXXY. Before me Danut HorsMAnven.

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City of New York ss: Danie Waxxer of the Township of Durham in the County of Charlotte Farmer being duly swofn on the holy Evangelists of Almighty God deposeth and Saith that he is an Inhabitant of a Tract of Land called Durham which was originally settled by people from Rhode Island under the claim of John Henry Lidius and afterwards granted to the said settlers under the great Seal of the province of New York. That he this Deponent was present when Ethan Allen, Seth Warner, Robert Cochran, Peleg Sunderland, Remember Baker and others of the Bennington Rioters held a pretended Court for the Trial of Benjamin Spencer Esq™ one of his Majesty's Justices of the peace for the said County of Charlotte, and. saw the said Rioters in part pull down demolish and burn the dwelling house of the said Benjamin Spencer. That the next day this Deponent passing by the dwelling house of Simpson Jennings then Coroner of the said County ; the said Robert Cochran being