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764 CONTROVERSY RESPECTING THE
manner assured the company that it was a grand falsehood, for
he knew to the Contrary that the whole was a Draught of
Duanes and had been in a Draught for some years; after the
Proclamation was read Mr Robinson asked the Deponent what
he thought of it, to which the deponent answered and said, my
oppinion is that York Government will hold all the lands, upon
which the said Ethen Allen came up behind the Deponent
and struck him three times and said you are a Damn Bastard
of old Munro's, we shall make a hell of His House and turn
burn him in it, and every son of a bitch that will take his part
it's no wonder to suppose you one of that Principle for old Cole
lives upon one side of you and old Willoghby the other sidethe Deponent answered that if it should be the right of New
Hampshire, might would overcome right, Mr Allen said how
can you be such a Damn fool have we not always overcome
them, and one hundred miles to the Northward and if they shall
ever come again we shall Drive them two hundred miles and
send them to hell; upon their Reading the Governors name to
the Proclamation. So your name is Tryon, tri on and be Damn
he shall have his match if he comes here and many such
Expressions and further the deponent saith not
BENJAMIN BUCK
Sworn before me at Fowlis in the County
aforesaid this 24th day of Jany 1772
JOHN MUNRO Justice.
AFFIDAVIT OF JONATHAN WHEATE.
Albany ss: JONATHAN WHITE of Shafsbury curning this evening past the House of John Blackely of Shafsbury aforesaid the
said Blakely Called out hew comes there the Deponent answered
Jonathan White, well what dis the Mahomet say, the deponent
answered not much, then the said John Blakely asked the Deponent what he thought of the Proclamation, the deponent answered
I dont think much of it for I believed it all before I saw it-the
said Blakely answered and said its a Damn thing and the Gover