The Examination of Lemuel Hindman in the County Court of Bertie on the twelfth day of August, 1777.

The above mentioned Lemuel Hindman being brought into Court, on an Accusation of being concerned in a Conspiracy against the State, voluntarily offered to depose on Oath all he knew concerning it; and being sworn; he accordingly declared, that in a Conversation which he had with John Garret of Tyrrel County, wherein they spoke upon the subject of Disturbances prevailing in the Country, & being willing to be informed of the nature of them, the said Garret told him, if he would take an Oath "to keep secret" he would inform him; that there upon he took the said Oath, and the said Garret then told him "he was to be true;" and desired him to apply further to Daniel Legate; and the said Garret then gave him a stick with three notches, and mentioned some words he was to letter with the said Legate, both which were intended as signs for the said Legate to know he had been partly informed of this affair, & had taken the above Oath; that he thereupon applied to the said Legate, who swore him "to keep true what he was to tell him until it was to be known;" that he thereupon told him he was to support Men for refusing the oath that he should be obliged to take, viz: "that the King never had, had not now, nor should have any authority or Government over the Country," or words to that Effect, and that he was to prevent Men's being prest or carried away from their Wives and children" but the said legate did not explain to him what he meant by Men's being so prest or carried away; that the said Legate told him, they were to assemble at a Reading ^Meeting (understood by this Deponent to be a Reading)^, but mentioned no time or place; and that he, the Deponent, should know further when he saw him again; but he has never yet seen the said Legate since, and knows no more concerning the above Transaction or any thing relating thereto, than what he has above related, to the best of his Recollection & Belief.

Signed and Sworn by the above named Lemuel Hindman the Interlineation of the Word "Meeting, (understood by this Deponent to be a Reading") being first made.

Lemuel Hyman

Bertie County/ ss August Court 1777

Sworn to in open Court by the Above mentioned Lemuel Hyman

Test John Johnston C C

Examination of
Lemuel Hindman.
vs
Legitt and J. Garrett