persons are ready to be examined, and many depositions are taken and ready to be produced.

During this inquiry, which the Delegates desire may be entered upon immediately, and pursued until the whole scheme be detected, and the extensive mischief meditated prevented, they move that some one or more persons be instantly sent by the Congress with order to stop all hostilities above complained of; to restore to the people on either side of this unhappy dispute their property that may be taken from them; to set at liberty all who may on either side have been made prisoners; to direct that commerce be open on the Susquehannah with said settlers and the Indians, and to give orders that all hostilities between the parties cease, and that every one continue peaceably to enjoy and occupy the lands he was in possession and improvement of before the late disturbances between them.

STEPHEN PARIST AND MOSES THILLAM’S EVIDENCE.

Stephen Parist and Moses Thillam, of Westmoreland, in the County of Litchfield, and Colony of Connecticut, of lawful age, testify and say, that in the evening next following the fifth day of December instant, at Latmawack District, in Westmoreland, they were informed that a number, consisting of about forty armed men, were coming to take and carry away the New-England people there, with the deponents at Lacawa, who were there settled under the New-England people’s claim; and about the middle of the night the company of armed men came in to Lacawa, and said they had orders, signed by the Governour of Pennsylvania, to take them off the land and carry them to Easton jail; then took and carried away ten of the inhabitants, and said that Wyoming was all taken before that time, for there was seven hundred of these men gone over; and they believed that they did break open sundry chests and carried away sundry papers of consequence. And further the deponents saith not.

STEPHEN PARIST,

MOSES THILLAM.

Westmoreland, December 10, 1775.

Then personally appeared the above named Stephen Parist and Moses Thillam, and made solemn oath to the truth of the above written deposition. Before me:

NATHAN DENISON, Justice of the Peace.

DEPOSITION OF ELISHA RICHARDS.

Elisha Richards, of Westmoreland, in the County of Litchfield, and Colony of Connecticut, of lawful age, testifies and says, that on Tuesday, the fifth day of December instant, this deponent set out from Wells’s Ferry, on Delaware River, and went the road to Lieutenant John Shaw, at Shahola, on his way to Wyoming, when he was stopped nigh by the said Shaw’s house, by one Fuller, who was said to be Sheriff of Northampton County, in the Province of Pennsylvania, and hat the said Fuller came up to him and gave this deponent a slap on the back, and told him he was his prisoner; and this deponent demanded the sight or hearing of his precept or order for so doing, when he replied, he would show him by and by, and would use him well; and then the said Fuller commanded two persons of them that were with him to keep this deponent for the present; and after this about one hour and a half, one Capt. Alexander Patterson, with about fifty men of the number that was with the Sheriff, mustered at the said John Shaw’s door, and directly marched off towards Lackawack, and I heard some of them often say they were going to assist the Sheriff to take the New-England people settled at Lackawack. As they were going off Esquire John Van Campen, of said party, and the said Sheriff, asked the said John Shaw if he would not give bail for this deponent; when the said Shaw said he would give bail that this deponent should appear at Lackawack Settlement before the Sheriff the next morning, and accordingly acknowledged himself bound in a bond of twenty pounds, before the said John Van Campen, Esq.; and the said John Van Campen said that the Congress had passed acts against the New-England people settled at Wyoming, and that they were very mad at them, and that they had turned the Connecticut Delegates out of the Congress on that account, and that five hundred of their men was gone to Wyoming to take them off, and he supposed they had done it. And then the said Van Campen and Fuller went on toward Lackawack, after the other company, and the next day this deponent set out from said Shaw’s towards Lackawack Settlement, and on the way he met some of the party that set off the evening before from Shaw’s, with a number of prisoners, inhabitants of Lackawack; and when I got to Lackawack, at the house of John Ansley I found the said Van Campen and Fuller, with the rest of the party; when I asked Van Campen and Fuller what further they had to do with me, when the said Van Campen said he was willing I should pass on to Wyoming, if the Sheriff was willing; when the Sheriff said he was willing, if I would pay the cost. When I asked what cost, he said the cost of serving a writ on me last night; when I told him he had shown me no precept last night, nor to day; then he made an attempt to pull something out of his pocket, and then drew back his fist as though he was going to strike me with it, and said Christ Jesus, God, and proceeded no further, but turned and said no more to this deponent; but sundry of the women belonging to Lackawack Settlement told this deponent that the party had taken nine of the inhabitants prisoners, and carried them off, and said they were going to carry them to Easton jail. And further saith not this deponent.

Dated at Westmoreland, 9th day of December, 1775.

ELISHA RICHARDS.

Personally appeared the above named Elisha Richards, signer to the above deposition, and made solemn oath to the truth of the above and foregoing deposition, before me,

ZEBULON BUTLER, Justice of the Peace.

DEPOSITION OF HENRY BUSH AND ASHBEL ROBERTSON.

Henry Bush and Ashbel Robertson, both of Westmoreland, of lawful age, testify and say, that they went from the Town of Westmoreland on Monday last, and on Wednesday last they were at Mr. Prinker’s Mills, at Lower Smithfield, in the Province of Pennsylvania, and that they there saw one Joseph Savage, who told them that the Town of Westmoreland at Wyoming was all cut off and burnt, when we replied that we came from there on Monday last, and said it was not then done; when the said Savage replied again, that certainly it was done by this time, if it was not done then, for he certainly knew that the people from that Province were gone up to do that, in great numbers, every road; and, further, we were at Japack Hiller’s, at the Windgap, the same day, and he, the said Hiller, told us that the people from their Province were gone up to Wyoming, to cut off the New-England people, and that there were great numbers gone up; and that about three hundred people had gone from the Jerseys to Shamokin last week, to join their Province people to cut off the New-England people, and that he believed their Towns were all in ashes by that time; and that the said three hundred people from the Jerseys passed through the County of Northampton, as they went to Shamokin; and, further, that on our way home from said Hitler’s we met Shureman Fraud, of Upper Smithfield, who told us that Henry Fuller, Sheriff! and Garret Broadhead, Esqrs., and Captain Ellick Patterson had pressed sixty men in the Town of Upper Smithfield, and did press his two sons, and they did go with him, and that sixty others who they pressed did go with them, and they were gone to cut off the Lackawack Settlement of the New-England people. And further saith not these deponents.

Dated at said Westmoreland, this 9th day of December, 1775.

HENRY BUSH,

ASHBEL ROBERTSON.

Personally appeared Mr. Henry Bush and Ashbel Robertson, the signers of the above deposition, and made solemn oath that the same was true, according to the best of their knowledge. Before me,

SILAS PARK, Justice of the Peace.

HARMAUNIS BRINK’S DEPOSITION.

Harmaunis Brink, of Shippekunk, in the County of Sussex, in the Province of New-Jersey, of lawful age, testifies and says, that on the 6th day of this instant, December, he was at the house of Lieutenant John Shaw, at Shahola, at evening, where a number of men came in while he was at said Shaw’s house, with prisoners from Lackawack, of the New-England people settled there; and that he saw sundry of said party that he knew by name, viz: Ellick Patterson, John Van Campen, Esq., John Van Allen, Isaac Jennings, Ellick Ervings, Benajah Mouday, John Sealy, William Smith, Joseph Smith, James Bacon, John Binker, James Lasson, Manuel Van Allen, Daniel Decker, Gascbert Vangorde, Jacob Decker, Elias Decker, Hans Williams, and Fuller, the Sheriff of Northampton County, in the Province of Pennsylvania, who went off from Shaw’s w ith the said prisoners down towards the settlement of Pennsylvania, while this deponent was at Shaw’s house; and that on Tuesday. the 5th day of this instant, this deponent remained at the house of Manuel Consolis, in Lower Smithfield, when he saw Charles Stewart, of the Jerseys, and one Garret Broadhead, Esq., of said Smithfield, have one Carver, one of the New-England people settled at Wyoming, prisoner, whom the said Stewart said he would carry to jail, for he was afraid he would carry news to the Lackawack people of the party that was going against them; and this deponent proposed that it was a hardship to put a man to jail for that, and offered to take him along the road towards one Colefoxe’s, which they consented to. And further saith not this deponent.

Dated at Westmoreland, this 11th of December, A D. 1775,

HARMAUNIS BRINK,