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see the matter settled and have Revenge that he had left. his Party passing the West River that he had heard that Lawyer Knights Josiah Arms of Brattleborough and Lieutenant Osgood of New Fane had assisted the Sheriff and that he would have thera if they continued upon Earth that he would see who was for the Lord and who was for Balaam that shortly the Deponent met the party of the said Robert Cockran consisting of about forty or fifty men mostly armed That upon the Deponent's arrival at Judge Wells' M's Wells desired the Deponent and the said Oliver Church to proceed to New York with this information with all speed That they set off a little after midnight the same day and arrived here in the afternoon of Monday last and the Deponent saith that he doth not know the Name of' any of' the said Rioters except the said Robert Cockran the Deponent - being an Inhabitant of the Massachusetts Bay and a Stranger in that part of this Province and further the Deponents say not. Sworn in Council the 2224 Oxiver Cuurca March 1775 before me JosepH Hancock. Dan. Horsmanpen.

And the Deponents further say that the pretext for the Discontents in the said County of Cumberland as given out by some is that many persons were sued for Debts and were at the same Time unable to recover what is due to them in the Province of the Massachusetts Bay and that they believe a design was formed and entred upon for shutting up the Courts of Justice to prevent those who were in Debt from being prosecuted by their Creditors.