Stephen Parist and Moses Thillam' s Evidence

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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.

WESTMORELAND, LITCHFIELD County, 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.