Personally appeared Mr. Harmaunis Brink, signer to the foregoing deposition, and made solemn oath to the truth of the same, before me,

ZEBULON BUTLER, Justice of the Peace.

DEPOSITION OF DANIEL ROSS.

Daniel Ross, of Westmoreland, of lawful age, testifies and says, that some time about the 1st of November last, he came to the mouth of Fishing Creek, on the East Branch of the Susquehannah River, as he was on his way from Fort Pill to the settlement of the New-England people at Wyoming, when one Captain Dolson, and one Fields, and one Aspy, who were settled near the mouth of said Fishing Creek, told me and one Abijah Harrington, who was my fellow-traveller, that they were going to raise a party of men in Pennsylvania, to take all the New-England people off at Wyoming, and that he, the said Dolson, had orders to enlist men, and that they should have three pounds a month for their pay, and all found as to board, and liquors besides, and leggings, blankets and shoes; and that they further said that they might come up to Wyoming, and take off any horses, cattle, or any other thing from the New-England people, and they would be justified in so doing by the authority of Pennsylvania; and then this deponent and the above named Harrington enlisted under the said Captain Dolson, as soldiers, to join with others to take the New-England people off from Wyoming, and signed his enlisting orders, which were signed by Dr. Plunket, Captain Hunter, Esquire Troy, and Dr. Ellison; and that, some days after, I heard that Mr. Avery, of Wyoming, had come from the Congress, by the way of Shamokin, and that he reported that the Congress had settled a line between the two parties, and that the New-England people were to hold down as far as within four miles of the Point on the East Branch; that the Pennsylvania people were to hold the West Branch; and that the title was settled. And some days after I was at Shamokin, and there heard from sundry persons that the stories that said Arery told were false, and that they had letters from the Congress, and that they had done nothing about it then, any way; and soon after Mr. Charles Stewart came to Sunbury, and brought news from Philadelphia that the Congress had given orders to drive off the New-England people, and that he had brought printed papers, with Mr. Hancock’s name to them, and others of the Congress, as the said Stewart said that the said deponent often heard read at Sunbury and other places there; and that it was giving the Pennsylvania people liberty to drive off the New-England people from Wyoming, and that when they had got them off the Congress would dare keep them off, and that this was so understood by the whole body of the people, and so reported at Sunbury, the Point, and other places in that County; and that this deponent conversed sundry times with the said Charles Stewart, and that I drank several bowls of punch with him, and while I was in his company he told publickly that if any of the people then at Sunbury, or in that County, would come up to Wyoming, and distress the people of Wyoming, by taking their horses or cattle, or any other thing, that he would justify them in so doing, and bear them out in it, and that they might have whatever they could get in that way for their own; and that this deponent then came up to Wyoming, in company with Abijah Harrington, Daniel Fields, Joseph Disbury, Joseph Smith, and Gaspy Reymy; and at Wyoming, near by where one Frazier lives, they got two colts; and Reymy and Smith went back with them, and the other four of the company came up to Shawnee Flats, and there took two more of the New-England people’s horses. Fields and Harrington went back with them, and then this deponent and Joseph Disbury came up to Kingston Flats, and staid there one day and two nights, and then took two horses; the said Joseph Disbury catched one, and said it was his, and told me that I might take that along, and took one other horse, that he said belonged to one Smith, of the New-England settlers, and then we returned, on the said horses, to Captain Dolson’s, where we found all the others of the party, and all the horses; and the said Dolson kept three of the horses about two days; and while this deponent was gone away from Dolson’s, the abovesaid Smith took the three horses, as the said Dolson told me, and was gone to the Jerseys, to Powling’s Kill, and was to sell the horses if he could, and then bring back the money, when he came into Wyoming, with the party that should come from there; and if he could not sell them, he was to put them out to pasture, on said Pawling’ s Kill, to be kept through the winter; and soon after this Captain Dolson told this deponent, and Abijah Harrington, and one William Barr, that the authority at Shamokin had sent orders to have a party Sent up to Wyoming, to see if the people were intrenching in order to defend themselves, or if they were making wooden cannon to defend with, and we set out for Wyoming, and was there taken by Captain Ransom, one of the constables of Westmoreland. And further saith not this deponent.

Dated Westmoreland, December 11, 1775.

DANIEL ROSS.

ABIJAH HARRINGTON.

Personally appeared Daniel Ross and Abijah Harrington, signers to the foregoing deposition, and made solemn oath to the truth of the same, before me, excepting Harrington was not with Ross and Disbury, in taking the two last horses.

ZEBULON BUTLER, Justice of the Peace.

JOHN CALKINS’S DEPOSITION.

John Calkins, of Westmoreland, of lawful age, testifies and says, he has been often at Coshockton Delaware River, among the people settled there, and that he has been acquainted with that settlement for fifteen years; that this deponent was well acquainted with many of the people there, and knew that they settled there on the New-England claim, and that they had, before the last Indian war, laid out three Townships, by order of the proprietors of the Delaware Company, in the Colony of Connecticut, and lotted out the said Towns; but they had been often suppressed by the Indians, and had lost some men in the wars with them, viz: Moses Thomas, Huff, and one Skinner, all New-England men; and all that are now living there, that I know of, are people that came from Connecticut. But I have this fall heard that some of them had taken warrants out, to secure to themselves the titles under Pennsylvania, of small pieces of their improvements, to enable them to trade off their board and lumber sent down Delaware River, the Pennsylvania people seizing all such stuff that docs come by the hand of a freeholder, as they informed this deponent And further saith not.

Dated Westmoreland, December 12, 1775

JOHN CALKIN

Personally appeared the above named John Calkin, signer to the above deposition, and made solemn oath to the truth of the same, before me,

ZEBULON BUTLER, Justice of the Peace.

DANIEL SAINT JOHN’S DEPOSITION.

Daniel Saint John, of Goshen, in the County of Orange, in the Province of New-York, of lawful age, testifies and says, that he had information from one that was a tory, that this Company which is gathering to come upon the New-England people settled at Wyoming, had connection with all the tories, far and near; and that their plan was to come here and take possession of the lands that the people here possess, and make themselves as strong as they could, and when the King’s troops should invade and get possession of the sea-ports, that they were to fall on the backs of the Continental troops. And further saith not this deponent.

Dated at Westmoreland, December 12, 1775.

A true copy of a deposition taken before and authority here.

Test:

ZEBULON BUTLER

END OF THE THIRD VOLUME OF THE FOURTH SERIES.

WASHINGTON, December 22, 1840.