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then would have gone at Large the said Wells then said that when he went to Hinsdale, the daybefore he had determined to send said Grout into the Massachusetts , to fix matters against thedeponent got there with his prisoners, that the Deponent and his assistants might be arrested butthe said Wells said when lie got to Hinsdale he found that said Grout was gone into the Massachu-setts for the last mentioned purpose. The Deponent then told said Wells that he thought it was theduty of a man in his Station to aid and assist an Officer in the Execution of his Office and notImpede him. The same Day the Deponent proceeded to Marlborough with the said Willard andWilliam and in the Night time, the small Log house where the Depo 4 with his prisoners Lodgedwas beset with a large number of Riotous men from Brattleborough and Guilford who behaved ina Very hostile manner and swore they would have the prisoners or pull down the house, theyTarried all night and Dispersed the Next day and further saith not.
Benja Whiting.
January the first day Anno Domini 1770 Benjamin Whiting Esq 1 ' the above Deponent appearedpersonally before me One of his Majesty’s Justices of the Peace for said Province and made SolemnOath that the above Deposition by him subscribed was the Truth and Nothing but the Truth.
Dane Jones Jus: Pac es .
City of New-York , ss. Benjamin Wait of full age personally came and appeared before me DanielHorsmanden Esq r Chief Justice of the Province of New York and being duly sworn on the holyEvangelists deposeth and saith that he is a Resident in Windsor in the County of Cumberland inthe Collony of New York that on the 29 th day of August last past One Certain Willard Dean and oneCertaine William Dean Jun 1 ' were taken into Custody by Benjamin Whiting by virtue of processIssued out of the Court of Vice Admiralty of New York against the said defendants for offences andforfeiture therein said to be Committed and Incurred by the said defendants. That the said BenjaminWhiting at the Request of the said defendants who were then his prisoners Committed them thatnight to the Custody of the deponent. That on the next day the said Benjamin Whiting com-manded the assistance of the depon 4 to take Care of the said prisoners in bringing them to the saidCourt of Vice Admiralty at the City of New York and the prisoners desiring one Day to prepare fortheir Journey the said Benjamin Whiting Committed them to the care of the deponent and one Jamesliosebrook and Directed the said Rosebrook and the deponent to meet him with the said prisoners atHinsdale in the said County of Cumberland, and that the said Benjamin Whiting then went inpursuit of other persons against whom he had other processes. That the said Benjamin Whitingleft a pistol and some ammunition with Each of them the said Rosebrook and the deponent fortheir defence in Case any Injury should be attempted Towards them, or any attempt made to Rescuethe said prisoners which there was great Reason to fear, That on the thirty first day of Augustaforesaid the said Rosebrook, the said defendants and the deponent did set out to go to Hinsdale, andhi their way to Hinsdale aforesaid, on the first day of September at Night one John Grout an attorneyat Law in Cumberland County met them at Westminster and that night Insisted that the saidRosebrook and the deponent had not any Right to keep the said prisoners in the absence of thesaid Whiting and that they had not any Right to have or Carry Arms with them. That on the nextmorning the second of September before the Deponent and the said Rosebrook with the said Prisoners did set off on their way from Westminister to Hinsdale the said John Grout told the said prisoners notto go with the deponent and the said Rosebrook unless they Carried them by force and told the