That on the Wednesday Evening as he thinks Robert Cockran proposed to destroy the Court house and all the persons in it and declared that he would beat up for volunteers the next morning, that this he accordingly did the next Day & inlisted (as this Deponent was informed and verily believes) about one hundred Men that it was then put to vote by this Company (as this Deponent then understood & verily believes) whether they should burn the Court House and all who were in it and it was determined in favor of this inhuman

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Resolution ; but that the party from New Hampshire again interposed & prevented its taking effect. That Cockran and his party frequently proposed trying the said Magistrates and officers of Justice by a Court Martial and punishing them on the Spot; but this was prevented also by the New Hampshire party. That

' the Rioters declared that they would suffer no Magistrates to act but two, who were to be permitted to serve their own purposes. That at length it was agreed by the Rioters that Seven of the persons so confined in the said Goal should be set at Liberty on giving Bond with Security to John Hazeltine the Chairman of the Rioters (as he then understood & verily believes) on this oceasion to appear and>take their trials with the other prisoners. That the following were the persons who were so bound (to wit) Thomas Chandler Esq? first Judge of the said Court of Common pleas, Benjamin Burt, Thomas Sergeant, Oliver Well, Bildad Easton (one of the Sheriffs Deputies) Joseph Willard and John Morse.