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. 907
discharged certain accounts having been received that the Rioters
were returning with Reinforcements and the deponent Oliver
Church farther saith that on Wednesday the fifteenth Instants
being at Brattleborough! he saw about sixty Rioters going towards
Westminster armed and headed by one Cochran who said he
was the Captain of the Green Mountain Boys and declared he
would have Revenge for the man that was killed and those that
were wounded and- his Company declared in general that. they
would have blood for blood particularly saying that they would
have the Blood of the said Sheriff Samuel Gale Clerk of the said
County and one Lieutenant Osgood: And the said Joseph Hancock for himself further deposeth and saith that he was warned by
the said Oliver Church to go to Westminister to the assistance of
the Sheriff and Magistrates That lie went from Brattleborough
early on Tuesday morning the fourteenth instant with about fourteen others and met several Flying parties of the Mob who said
there would be another Rally and they expected a second Engagement That when they arrived at Westminister which was about
noon of that. Day they found the Court had met and adjourned to
the afternoon and that every thing was in great confusion from an
expectation of the Return of the Rioters That in the afternoon of
that day the Rioters began to come up in several parties whereupon
as the Deponent has heard and believes the Judges adjourned the,
Courts to the next Town no Business having been done That on
the evening of the same day the Deponent was in the said Court
House with the said Sheriff the mob having by this time collected
a Strong Body to the amount of about Three hundred, That
two of them came into the Court HIouse to the said Sheriff one
of whom threatned and insulted the Sheriff and declared that the
Judges should be brought out before the Mob and make
acknowledgements to their satisfaction That; they would pull
down the Court House That the Sheriff and all that. had a
hand in- perpetrating the horrid Massacre as he expressed himself
should be taken into custody and put in irons..That the Deponent went out of the Court ItHuse When it was immediately
surrounded by the Mob who took possession of the Doors, and
would let none but their own party into or out of the House
That as soon as the Deponent got out of the house he understood