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 ...

NEW HAMPSHIRE GRANTS. 641
AFFIDAVIT OF SAMUEL. WELLS.
City of New York ss: SAMUEL WELLS of Biattleborough in
the County of Cumberland Esquire one of tile Judges of the
Inferior Court of Commion Pleas for the said County caime this
Day before me and made oath that some time between tie fourteenth and Nineteenth Days of May last tllis Deponent on his
Return home from a Journey called upon Colonel Nathan Stone
in Windsor who mounted his Horse and rode with this Deponent
almost through Town, on the Road the said Stone and this
Deponent discoursed concerning the High Sheriff not long before
coming into Windsor to serve some Precepts, and his being
opposed and threatened, the said Stone told this Deponent that
he was determined that no writs or Precepts that Issued out of
the lnferior Court or Courts of General Sessions of the Peace for
the said County should be served in Windsor, or to that purpose
That the making a County was a sham and not a Reality, that.
the Patent or Ordinance for erecting the County was a Libel, as
it suggested that its being erected into a County was Petitioned
for, which he said was false, that it was never Intended that
these Courts should Act in Trying Causes, that there was no
Justice to be obtained in the County by means of the Corruption
of the Judges Justices and other Officers, that they were
ruled intirely by John Grout Attorney at Law, that he was
determined to oppose their'Authority, while he had a Drop of
Blood in his veins; That friendship to this Deponent Induced
him to bear this Deponent Company until lie had passed by most
of the Settlements in Town, and Intimated that if this Deponent
should Ride alone through Town he would be in danger of being
Assaulted by the People and have some violence done to him;
That this Deponent endeavoured by many arguments to Convince
the said Stone of the danger of opposing the Execution of the
Laws and exhorted him'to alter his resolution and told him that
if lie and the People would for the future make no opposition to
the free execution of the Laws it would be the most likely
method he and they could take to induce the Civil authority to
pass over the opposition already made in the Tenderest manner;
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