a manner as not to injure their Persohs, That thereupon the Mob returned the Fire upon the Magistrates and their Assistants and wounded Mr Justice Butterfeld, when the Magistrates fired upon the said Mob and a Violent affray ensued, in which one of the Rioters was killed and nine wounded, That on the next day the Justices opened the said Court and were proceeding to Business when a number of Persons partly of the said County and partly from the Provinces of the Massachusetts Bay and New Hampshire assembled, Surrounded the Court House and made the Judges Sheriff Clerk of the said Court and several other Persons their Prisoners, and have Confined them in the County Goal, That one Cockran who is a notorious Ringleader of the Riots at Bennington, was a principal in this Mob, and, that the Rioters have threatned to try by their own Authority the Magistrates and others whom they have taken Prisoners for the Massacry, as they Term it, which they have committed--And the said Coll Wells, Mt Pen and the Expresses being withdrawn: His Honor required the advice of the Council in this Emergency.

The Council humbly advise that the two Persons who came - Express do severally put into Writing the particular Cireumstances relating to this Affair and attest to the same, and that his Honor do send the said Depcsitions-to the General Assembly together with a Message warmly urging them to proceed immediately to the consideration of this important Intelligence and adopt some effectual Measures by which a total stop may be put to Evils of so Alarming a Nature; and the principal Aiders and Abettors of such Violent Outrages brought to Condign Punishment.