The following Deposition should have immediately preceeded
No. 5.

(No. 23.)
SAmuel Bostwick, of lawful age, testifies and says, that on
Friday the second instant, between 10 and 11 o'clock in
the forenoon, three soldiers of the 29th regiment, came up
Mr. Gray's ropewalk, and William Green , one of the hands,
spoke to one of them, saying, Soldier, will you work? The
soldier replied, Yes. Green said, then go and clean my s-t-
house. The soldier swore by the Holy Ghost that he would
have recompence, and tarried a good while swearing at Green,
who took no further notice of him, and then went off, and
soon after returned to the ropewalk with a party of thirty or
forty soldiers, headed by a tall negro drummer, and challenged
the ropemakers to come out. All hands then present, being
about 13 or 14, turn'd out and beat them off, considerably
bruised. And further saith not.
    SAMUEL BOSTWICK.

Suffolk, ss. Boston, March 19. 1770. Samuel Bostwick, above-
named, after due examination, made oath the truth of
the above affidavit, taken to perpetuate the remembrance
of the thing.
Before RI. DANA, Just. of Peace and of the Quorum.
JOHN HILL, Jus. Peace.

(No. 24.)
I William Tyler, of lawful age, do testify and say, that on
the evening of the fifth of March, a little after nine o'clock,
as I was coming up kingstreet, just before I got to the custom-
house I saw the centinel running after a boy, and immediately heard
him cry out as tho' in great distress. I asked the boy what was
the matter, he told me the centinel had struck him with his gun
and bayonet because he ask'd Capt. Goldfinch for some money
that he owed him. The centinel said that he should not use
an officer ill in the street. Soon after the boy left the centinel
and went away, and immediately ten or twelve soldiers came
running up Silsby's alley, crying out, where are your Sons of
Liberty? and went from thence to Cornhill. I further testify
that when the above complaint was made of the centinel's stri-
king the barber's boy, there were few people in the street. I saw
but five or six about them, who immediately dispersed. I then left
Kingstreet and went up to Cornhill.
    WILLIAM TYLER.