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. Iv. 58

914 CONTROVERSY RESPECTING THE

Gates and Thomas Boyden all of Fulham. That the principal and most active of the Rioters who were concerned in the other of the said Rictous proceedings were, besides the said Robert Cockran, Solomon Harvey of Fulham, Alijah Lovejoy of Westminster & Othniel Wilkins of Guildford and further this Deponent saith that he does verily believe that the principal Cause of the said Disturbances in the County of Cumberland is the Repugnance of the riotous part of the Inhabitants to be sued for their Debts. That two prisoners who ,were confined for Debt in the said Goal were discharged. And the Deponent further saith, that he understood that the said Goal was nailed up by Order of the Rioters and left empty in that Condition and further the Deponent saith not. Joun GRIFFIN. Sworn this 2'7|8t Day of March 1775--Before me, Dan HorsmManDEN.