MIDDLESEX, ss. April 25th, 1775.
NATHANIEL MULLIKEN, Phillip Russell,
Moses Harrington,
jun. Thomas Harrington, Daniel
Harrington, William Grimer,
William Tidd, Isaac Hastings, Jonas
Stone, jun. James Wyman,
Thaddeus Harrington, John Chandler,
Joshua Read, jun. Joseph
Simons, Phineas Smith, John Chandler,
jun. Rueben Lock, Joel
Viles, Nathan Read, Samuel Tidd,
Benjamin Lock, Thomas Win-
ship, Simeon Snow, John
Smith, Moses Harrington, 3d. Joshua
Read, Ebenezer Parker, John
Harrington, Enoch Willington, John
Hosmer, Isaac Green, Phineas
Stearns, Isaac Durant and Thomas
Hadley, jun. above named being duly cautioned to testify the
whole truth, made solemn oath to the above deposition, as
con-
taining nothing but the truth, as subscribed by them. Before
us,
William Read, Josiah
Johnson, William Stickney. Justices of the
Peace.
WE NATHANIEL PARKHURST, JONAS PARKER,
JOHN MUNROE, jun. JOHN WINDSHIP,
SOLO-
MON PEIRCE, JOHN MUZZY, ABNER
MEADS,
JOHN BRIDGE, jun. EBENEZER BOWMAN,
WILLI-
AM MUNROE, 3d. MICAH HAGAR, SAMUEL
SAN-
DERSON, SAMUEL HASTINGS, and JAMES
BROWN,
of
Lexington in the county of
Middlesex and colony of the
Massachusetts-Bay, in
New-England, and all of lawful age, do
testify and say, that on the morning of the nineteenth of April,
instant, about one or two o'clock, being informed that a number
of regular officers had been riding up and down the road the evening
and night preceding, and that some of the inhabitants as they were
passing had been insulted by the officers and stoped by them, and be-