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Documentary History of the State of New York, Vol. IV

O'Callaghan, E.B., ed. The Documentary History of the State of New York, Vol. IV. Albany: Weed, Parsons and Co., 1851. 309 words

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.

That it was further determined by the said Rioters that the remaining nine persons who had been confined in Goal (to wit) Noah Sabin Esq". one of the Judges of the Inferior Court of the said County ; Benjamin Butterfield one of the Assistant Justices of the said Court, William Willard Esq". one of his Majesty's Justices of the peace William Patterson Esq'. high Sheriff Samuel Gale Esq" Clerk--Benjamin Gorton--Deputy Sheriff Richard Hill one Cunningham and William Williams should be sent prisoners to the Town of Northhampton in the County of Hampshire in the Province. of the Massachusett's Bay and

'there confined in Goal. That a Guard of between twenty & thirty of the Rioters under the Command of the said Robert Cockran and of an equal Number of the Newhampshire party under the Command of' the said Captain Butterfield accordingly was appointed to convey the said nine persons to the Goal aforesaid and were upon their March when the Deponent left the said County of Cumberland. That the principale and most active among the Rioters who took possession of the Court house manner aforesaid were Doctor Jones of Rockingham, Leonard Spalding of Putney, Charles Davenport, one Haven a Blacksmith, Daniel Sergeant one Hoooker, one Knight, Hosea Miller, Paul VoL.