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 ...

858 CONTROVERSY RESPECTING THE
compelled him to engage that he would never serve as an Officer
of Justice under the authority of New York.
That at the Time of their late Irruption into Durham, they
openly avowed that in their next Visit they would reduce every
House to Ashes and leave every Inhabitant a Corpse.
That several of the Inhabitants of Durham and other Towns,
after having been cruelly whipped aud mal-treated have been
compelled to abandon their Property and consult their Safety by
Flight
That the Civil authority in that part of the Country terrified
and obstructed by the most insolent outrages, is altogether
Silenced, neither Magistrates nor inferiour Officers being able to
Officiate in their respective Stations either in the Protection of
the Persons or for the Recovery of the Debts of the Injured.
That the Inhabitants of Durham and many others holding
under this province, have at considerable sexpence purchased
Titles under the New Hampshire Charters to the Lands they
possess, in hopes thereby of enjoying in Peace the Fruits of their
Labour, but find themselves totally disappointed, the Rioters
insisting that they shall become of their Number, conform to their
Regulations, and act as they do in open defiance of all Law and
Government.
That under these Circumstances they are reduced to the hard
Necessity of associating with the Rioters, or of abandoning their
Settlements, and unwilling to embrace the former must beforced
to submit to the latter and fy ithe Country, though to the utter
Ruin of themselves and their Families; unless supported by
the Aid and Protection of Government.
That the principal actor's in these Violences are Remember
Baker, Ethan Allen, Seth Warner, Robert Cockren, Silvanus
Brown, John Smith and Peleg Sunderland. That they are encouraged and excited to the Perpetration of these daring offences,
by men who do not openly appear, but are chosen by the rest as
Councilors and Advisors of all their Measures, and among whom
the Petitioner is well inform'd are Stephen Fay, Jedediah Dury,
Samuel Safford and James Brakenridge.
Thus from the Temper of these disorderly People your Petitioner is persuaded they are only to be restrained by Force, but