The Documentary history of the state of New-York; arranged under direction of the Hon. Christopher Morgan, secretary of State. By E. B. O'Callaghan ...

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1773. Oct. 14. Lord Dartmouth to Gov. Tryon disapproving of his requisition
on Gen. Haldemand for troops,......................... 856
1774. Feb. 2. Petition of Benj. Hough, giving details of various illegal acts
committed by the Bennington rioters and asking protection,
(with,).............................................. ib.
1773. Dec. 6. Deposition of Benj. Spencer, Jacob Marsh, Benj. Hough, and
others, as to various indignities they suffered at the hands
of Ethan Allen, Remember Baker, Seth Warner, &c.,..... 859
1774. Feb. 4. Report of the grand committee of Grievances to the New-York
Assembly on the preceding papers,...................... 869
Mar. 9. Proclamation of Gov. Tryon offering a reward for the arrest of
Ethan Allen, Seth Warner, Remember Baker, and other
rioters,.............................................. 871
Aug. 4. Affidavit setting forth that Amos Chamberlain had been cited
before the judgment seat of the Bennington mob,.......... 873
Sept. 1. Petition of Benj. Hough in behalf of himself and the other
settlers of Durham and Socialboro', setting forth other violent outrages by the mob, and stating that the rioters had
commenced erecting forts, &c., (with,)..~............. 875
Aug. Sundry depositions in support of the said petition,............ 878
Sept. 1. Minute of council advising the governor to apply to Gen. Gage
for a military force to support the civil magistracy and keep
the peace in Charlotte county,....................... 884
19. Gen. Gage to Gov. Tryon declining to furnish the required
troops,............................................... 885
Oct. 4. Lieut. Gov. Colden to Lord Dartmouth with an account of the
events above narrated,................................ 886
Dec. 1. Petition of the freeholders of Charlotte county, praying to be
allowed to elect representatives to the New-York Assembly,............................................. 888
10. Lord Dartmouth to Lieut. Gov. Colden, expressive of the hope
that things will mend,................................. 889
1775. Mar. 9. Petition of Benj. Hough, with an account of a most cruel
whipping and other barbarous treatment he received at the
hands of the mob,................................ 891
7. Depositions in support of the statements contained in the above
petition, one of which has the certificate of Hough's punishment signed by Ethan Allen and Seth Warner,......... 893
21. Minute of council relative to a riot attended with loss of life at
Westminster, in Cumberland county, *................... 908
Sundry affidavits containing the particulars of the above occurrence,................................................ 904
April 5. Lieut. Gov. Colden to Lord Dartmouth, communicating an
account of the whipping of'Squire Hough, and of " a dangerous insurrection" in Cumberland county,............. 914
7. Petition of Benj. Hough and Daniel Walker, praying for leave
to solicit relief from the humane and benevolent,.......... 910
May 4. Petition of Samuel Wells and others; C Had it not been for
the late unhappy difference in'Massachusetts Bay," peace
had been restored to the county of Cumberland).......... 917
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