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NEW HAMPSHIRE GRANTS. 913
Resolution; but that the party from New Hampshire again
interposed & prevented its taking effect. That Cockran and his
party frequently proposed trying the said Magistrates and officers
of Justice by a Court Martial and punishing them on the Spot;
but this was prevented also by the New Hampshire party. That
the Rioters declared that they would suffer no Magistrates to act
but two, who were to be permitted to serve their own purposes.
That at length it was agreed by the Rioters that Seven of the
persons so confined in the said Goal should be set at Liberty oil
giving Bond with Security to John Hazeltine the Chairman of the
Rioters (as he then understood & verily believes) on this occasion to appear and take their trials with the other prisoners.
That the following were the persons who were so bound (to wit)
Thomas Chandler Esqr first Judge of the said Court of Common
pleas, Benjamin Burt, Thomas Sergeant, Oliver Well, Bildad
Easton (one of the Sheriffs Deputies) Joseph Willard and John
Morse.
That it was further determined by the said Rioters that the
remaining nine persons who had been confined in Goal (to wit)
Noah Sabin Esqr. one of the Judges of the Inferior Court of the
said County; Benjamin Butterfield one of the Assistant Justices
of the said Court, William Willard Esqr. one of his Majesty's
Justices of the peace William Patterson Esqr. high Sheriff
Samuel Gale Esqr Clerk-Benjamin Gorton —Deputy Sheriff
Richard Hill one Cunningham and William Williams should be
sent prisoners to the Town of Northhampton in the County
of Hampshire in the Province of the Massachusett's Bay and
there confined in Goal. That a Guard of between twenty &
thirty of the Rioters under the Command of the said Robert
Cockran and of an equal Number of the Newhampshire party,
under the Command of the said Captain Butterfield accordingly
was appointed to convey the said nine persons to the Goal
aforesaid and were upon their March when the Deponent left
the said County of Cumberland. That the principale and most
active among the Rioters who took possession of the Court house
manner aforesaid were Doctor Jones of Rockingham, Leonard
Spalding of Putney, Charles Davenport, one Haven a Blacksmith,
Daniel Sergeant one Hoooker, one Knight, Hosea Miller, Paul
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