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CONTROVERSY RESPECTING THE NEW HAMPSHIRE GRANTS
AFFIDAVITS ENCLOSED.
Albany County ss : Personally appeared before me one Samuel Willoughby one of His MajestysConstables for the County aforesaid and made Oath that on the 10 th day of tins Instant May lie wasovertaken on the Kings highway by Thomas Frincli Charles Bullin and Martin Powel of PrinceTown with a number of other Rioters whose Names to this defendant is unknown (all armed withClubs) that the said French laid hold of the depond 1 with his Club over his head and threatnedhis life unless he would carry off the writt of Ejectment which the Depond 1 had served upon thesaid Frenchs wife in his absence, which the Depond 1 refused to do, upon which the said Bullincame up and laid it upon his arm and obliged him to bring it off or his life be in danger.
Samuel Willoughby.
Sworn before me at Fowlis this 17 Day of May 1771.
John Munro, Justice.
Personally appeared before me Samuel Munro of Wollomsack who -went as an assistant, to the saidWilloughby and made oath that he was present when the Rioters above mentioned persued them andthat what is set forth in the above afidavid is true and that the said Rioters threatned to tiee theDepond 1 to a tree and flog him if he did not go off.
Samuel Munro.
Sworn before me at Fowlis this 17* day of May 1771.
John Munro Justice.
Albany ss: Personallyappeared before me Samuel Willoughby one of His Majesty’s Constables forthe County of Albany aforesaid and made [oath] that on the night of the 23 d day of this InstantMay, being under the necessity of going to Bennington to serve some Executions, he lodged atthe House of Samuel Saford in said Town, that about the hours of nine or ten of the clock at nightthe family was allarmed by the firing of a Gun, and on the morning of the 24 th the depond 1 wentto the Barn where he put up his Horse the evening before, and found the Barn Door oppeu andHis Horse shot Dead; by som of the Inhabitants as he supposes.
Samuel Willochby
Sworn before me at Fowlis this 25 day of May 1771.
John Munro Justice.
Albany County ss: Personally appeared before me one David Wing of lawfull age and made Oath,that on or about the 21 st day of May last, he was commanded to the assistance of Samuel Pease oneof his Majestys constables for the county aforesaid, in order to take Thomas French of PrinceTown for Rioting, with several others that upon their comming within the bounds of said Townthey were met with, by a number of Rioters all with clubs excepting two which had Guns , thatone shot was fired at them out of the woods, but Done no Damage, that upon their coming up to thesaid French ’s House they found it surrounded by a much greater number of men vowing againstthe Constable and his party and that he should carry no man out of Town that if lie happened tocarry one of them to Goal, die Goal should not stand three weeks, Dammed the Rascally yorkers Esq rMunro and all his authority with many such other expressions,
David Wing.
Sworn before me at Fowlis this 2 d day of June 1771.
John Munro Justice.