what I understood had passed at the rope-walk days before,
he reply'd it was much the same as he had heard from his
people ; but says he, "your man was the aggressor in affront-
ing one of my people, by asking him if he wanted to work, and
then telling him to clean his little-house." For this expression
I dismissed my journeyman on the Monday morning following ;
and further said, I would do all in my power to prevent my
peoples giving them any affront in future. He then assur'd
me, he had, and should do everything in his power to keep his
soldiers in order, and prevent their any more entering my in-
closure. Presently after, Col. Carr came in, and asked Col. [William]
Dalrymple what they should do, for they were daily losing
their men ; that three of his grenadiers passing quietly
by the rope-walks were greatly abus'd, and one of them so
much beat that he would die. He then said he had been
searching for a serjeant [sargeant] who had been murder'd ; upon which,
I said, Yes Colonel, I hear you have been searching for him
in my rope-walks ; and asked him, whether that serjeant [sargeant] had
been in the affray there on the Friday ; he reply'd, no : for
he was seen on the Saturday. I then asked him, how he could
think of looking for him in my walks; and that had he apply'd
to me, I would have waited on him, and opened every apart-
ment I had for his satisfaction.     JOHN GRAY.

Suffolk, ss. Boston, March 22, 1770. John Gray above named
after due examination, made oath to the Truth of the
above-written affidavit. Taken to perpetuate the
Remembrance of the Thing.
Before, RI: DANA, Just. Peace & of the Quorum.
And, JOHN HILL, Jus. Peace.

(No. 10)
ARchibald McNeil, jun. of lawful age, testifies and says,
that on Saturday the third instant, about half an hour
after four in the afternoon, the deponent with two apprentices
were spinning at the lower end of Mr. McNeil's ropewalk,
three stout grenadiers, armed with bludgeons, came to them,
and addressing the deponent said, You damn'd dogs, don't you de-
serve to be kill'd? Are you fit to die? The deponent and com-
pany being quite unarmed gave no answer. James Bayley, a
seafaring young man, coming up, said to the deponent, &c.
Why did you not answer? One of the grenadiers, named
Dixson, hearing him, came up to Bayley and asked him if he
was minded to vindicate the cause? Bayley also unarmed did
not answer till James Young came up, who, tho' equally na-
ked, said to the grenadier, Damn it, I know what a soldier is.