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 ...

730 CONTROVERSY RESPECTING THE
Esqr one of his Majesty.s Justices of the Peace for the County
of Albany, deposing that on the night of the second of August
last, and on or about the Hour of twelve or one o'clock a number
of Men came to the Deponents House in a Riotous -manner, and
turned the Deponent his Wife and Children out of Doors, and
then pulled the said House to the ground; and that Seth Warner,
of Bennington was Captain of the said Mob and that Elnathan
Huble and Amos Mateson were amongst the said Rioters, with
many others whose Names the Deponent knows not-His Excellency the Governor with the advice of the Council recommended
it to Mr Chief Justice Horsmanden to issue his Warrant to the
High Sheriff of the City and County of Albany, forthwith to
apprehend the said Seth Warner, Elnathan Huble, andAmos
Mateson and them and every one of them to carry before one of
his Majesty's Justices of the Supreme Court of this Colony to be
examined touching the premises and dealt'with according to
Law. That a Copy hereof be transmitted to the said Sheriff, and
that he do report to his Excellency his proceedings in Consequence thereof.
His Excellency laid before tie Board a Letter from Samuel
Wells Esqr one of the Judges of the Superior Court of Common
pleas for the County of Cumberland, inclosing the Affidavit of
Nathaniel Howe, whereby it appears that Messieurs Whiting and
Grout, who' were lately employed by Governor Wentworth to
trace Connecticut to its source, had pursued an Easterly instead
of. the Northerly Branch, which Easterly Branch they had
returned as the Head of Said River.
On Reading'hereof and the Affidavit of Samuel Gardenier of
Wallumschack, setting forth, sundry late flagrant Instances of
Riots and Violences committed on the Claimants of this province
by disorderly persons seated on Lands within this province,
under Grants of New Hampshire, who seem to be greatly influenced in this outragious Conduct, by the assurances they pretend
to have received from the Governor of New Hampshire, that the
Jurisdiction will be altered by his Majesty so as to include.the
Lands held by them within the Limits of New Hampshire, The
Council humbly advised his Excellency to write to Governor
Wentworth on the subject of the said exparte Survey of Con