Deposition of Charles Foreman

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WESTMORELAND County, ss:

Personally appeared before us, the subscribers, three of his Majesty' s Justices of the Peace for the County aforesaid, Charles Foreman, who, being duly sworn upon the Holy Evangelists of Almighty God, doth depose and say, that this morning, between twilight, being the 7th day of February, he heard a noise at the Jail, and getting out of his bed, he saw a number of armed men breaking the door and charging the prisoners then in Jail to go about their business, and he heard John Carnaghan, Esquire, Sheriff of the County aforesaid, ask one Benjamin Harrison, who appeared to be their head man, whether they had any orders for their so doing, upon which he read a paper, and said it was Captain William Crawford' s orders so to do; and the said Charles Foreman further saith, that he saw one Samuel Wilson make a push at one Robert Hanna, Esquire, with a gun, and told him not to be so saucy, and a great deal of ill tongue; and further this deponent saith not.

CHAS˙ FOREMAN.

Sworn and subscribed before us, this 7th day of February, 1775.

ROBERT HANNA,
WM˙ LOCHEY,
WM˙ BRACKEN.