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.

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LT. GOV. COLDEN TO LORD DARTMOUTH. [Lond. Doc. XLV.] New York 5th April 1775.

. Exrracr. About a month agoe I received accounts of farther outrageous and most illegal proceedings of the Bennington Rioters, of which your Ldp has already heard so much. Their Acts grow from time to time more daring and dangerous. They have now had 'the hardiness to seize a justice of the Peace, to try him before a mock Tribunal of their own, formally to pass sentence upon him, and after inflicting a punishment of 200 Lashes on him, to banish him from that part of the Country, which they call their own Indeed the authority of Government is entirely Jost among them, and I am afraid can not be restored but by Force. They began with pretending only to hold possession of the Lands on which they had settled. but your Ldp may be assured they have extended their Designs much farther, and are dayly growing more and more formidable and dangerous to Government.