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 ...

892 CONTROVERSY RESPECTING THE
a mock Tribunal; condemned him to receive two hundred
stripes on his naked Back; carried that ignominious sentence
into the severest execution; and then banished him from the
Country on pain of receiving five hundred Lashes in case he
should be found within what they assume as their Jurisdiction.
That although they had thus satiated their vengeance upon
your petitioner and seen him bleeding and fainting under his
wounds; and tho' they had dragged him suddenly from his
house without giving him Time to provide himself for a journey
or to settle his affairs, they would not suffer him to return to his
Family for a day; but insisted that he should go forward towards
this City of New York, or Albany; land to add to their arrogance
publickly gave hirh a Certificate; that he had received full
punishment for the crime with which they had charged him; to
which Ethan Allen and Seth Warner, two of their principal
Leaders, did not hesitate to Subscribe their Names.
That the mock Court, before which your Petitioner was thus
abused consisted of the following persons to wit, Ethan Allen,
Seth Warner, Robert Cochran, Peleg Sunderland, James Mead,
Gideon Warren, and Jesse Sawyer, who acted in the double office
of Accusers and Judges; That no less than.four other persons
were appointed to execute their sentence, to wit Winthrop Hoyt
of Bennington, Abel Benedict of Arlington John Sawer, &
another with whose Name your petitioner is unacquainted; and
that each of them alternatly whipped your petitioner till, the full
Number of two hundred stripes were inflicted.
That the only prrovcation which they pretended fox thii
bribaroau treatment was that your petitioner had complained to
Government of their former Misconduct towards the Magistrates
and Inhabitants of the said Counties; that he had discouraged
people from joining them in their unwarrantable proceedings;
and that he had accepted and exercised the office of a magistrate
f6r the said county of Chlarlotte contrary to their Injunctions.
That the said Rioters have publickly proclaimed their intention to treat every other Inhabitant who will not unite with them
in their flagitious practices with the same severity.
That the intolerable Grievances which your petitioner and
others have sustained and the Dangers they are daily exposed to,