Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1769-1770. 319

Cavanah John M^cCrackin and James Wilson and that he was
informed and had reason to believe that James M^oCalease
Nathaniel Gillaspy Andrew Porter and Thomas Porter was
present but he does not positively know them and upon three
Men being produced to him and asked if they was any of the
Persons answered that one of them was Thomas Porter the
other Nathaniel Gillaspy and the other he thinks is Andrew
Porter and that he knew the said Andrew Porter when he was
a Boy and since and he thinks.he knew when the Riot was and
he thinks he was present And being further asked by the
Parties concerned what kind of Night it was they was at his
House answered and said that the Moon shone in the fore
part of the Night and that it was Starr light in the latter part
and being asked where the Cellar Door was that he saw the
Men come out of answered and said that he saw them come out
of the Door in the Stone part of his House and on the back
side and being likewise asked if either of the two Guns men-
tioned in this Deposition was returned to him answers and
saith that it was not returned to him and being asked if he
could tell whether Francis Baker or Stephen Porter Shot in
at the Window at which he stood answered and said that
Stephen Porter Shot in at the Window at which he Stood.
Sworn before W^m Reynolds.
G. Milligan
And^w Pearce

Cecil County ss^t

On the 24^th day of June 1769. came Prudence Reynolds
before us the Subscribers and being one of the People com-
monly called Quakers did solemnly sincerely and truly affirm
and declare that on the twentieth day of August last past she
heard some Persons at the Door of William Reynolds call out
Dam him Shute him Shute him and Shot in at both the Win-
dows and immediately after all the Windows in the House ex-
cept one was broke and the People came in but that she did not
then know them but one of them Struck her and beat her and
pulled the Skin off her Arms and that four or five Persons had
hold of her until one of them released her which was James
Gamble which she knew by his Voice soon after she went out
of the House into the Porch and there Stephen Porter came
up to her with a Pistol in one hand and a Club in the other and
she told him she knew him and he answered he knew that and
if she Spoke one Word he would Murder her that Minute and
then pulled her about Struck her on the Head and tore her
Cloaths and then left her after which the Person which first
Struck her and Robert Porter came to her and the Man who

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