Affidavit from Daniel Avery, 28 December 1843

an hour they returned with an armed mob, with rifles and other weapons, sufficient to make the whole company number about 20. Being all on horse back they formed a circle, with your in the center, (who, up to this time had called upon <​acquainted​> every man he saw that “they were Kidnapping him,”) and marched in that order to a house on the piont below , And as I was very cold from being bound they took me into the house and loosed me to warm. I now called for a trial, as I had told them all the way thus I never resisted legal authority: They said they were huntng a magistrate: Says I under stand you, you mean to force me into . McCoy returned, and said we are ready. It was about midnight. We went about 300 yards up the to a skiff. I refused to cross, as they had promised me a trial. They foreced me into the skiff and bound me, and five men put me across. Their names, so far as I could ascertain, are William Middleton, William Clark, Joseph McCoy and the School master from <​and Charles Coolidge​> [p. [3]]