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Tyrrell County
July 14th. 1777}
Thomas Harrison Senr. being called upon to Give a further Testimony Declareth and Sayeth that on Friday the fourth Inst. He was at his sons Wheat Field when William Brimage Esqr. of Bertie County came There & called this Deponent to come to him, when he ask'd this Deponent where Leggett was, when this Deponent Answered he did not know but he might be at his House, upon which the said Brimage and this Deponent went to the House where they found said Leggett when the said Brimage called Daniel Leggett out & a littl Time Afterwards called out this Deponent when all Three that is to say the said Brimage Leggett & this Deponent went into the Woods Adjacent to the House of this Deponent Where the said Daniel Leggett Administred the Oaths & the said Brimage took the Oaths of Secrecy & for Opposing Draughts &c. which was Administred to the members of this Conspiracy—Immediately after which the said Leggett & this Deponent went to his sons Wheatfield—& the said Brimage went back to the House of this Deponent where he had left his Horse to get him, & directly followed the said Leggett & this Deponent back to said Wheatfield, and at the Corner of the Fence of said Field met Mr. Samuel Black of this County Where the said Brimage & Black called to said Leggett & this Deponent who went to them, & soon after the said Brimage Black Leggett & this Deponent went together into the Woods joining said Field Where the Aforesaid Oaths were Administred by said Leggett & taken by said Black—then the said Leggett propos'd to said Brimage to Act as Senior Warden for this Society in Bertie County, which the said Brimage Complied with & was sworn in to said office by said Legget Which Office of Senior Warden for this Society in Bertie County, which the said Brimage Complied with & was sworn in to said office by said Leggett Which Office of Senior Warden this Deponent understood & believ'd to be for the Purpose of Gaining & Swearing in members to this Association & Conspiracy In the County of Bertie, which ^office^ said Leggett Perform'd in this County—And further this Deponent sayeth that at the Time & Place where Samuel Black took said Oaths John Stewart of Martin County was Present, but did not then take the Oaths tho this Deponent believes he had before taken them as none were suffered to be Present at the Swearing of any Members but such as were before sworn in members of this Association And Conspiracy and more Especially as the said Stewart came at First with said Brimage to his Sons Wheatfield, went and went from thence with the said Brimage & this Deponent to the House of this Deponent and from thence with said Leggett, Brimage & andthis Deponent into the Woods adjacent to the House of this Deponent and was there Present where said Brimage took the Oaths Aforesaid as well as afterwards when the said Black took the Oaths aforesaid And further this Deponent sayeth that upon the said Brimages being sworn in to Act as Senr. Warden in Bertie County for the Purposes aforesaid the said Brimage ask'd the said Daniel Leggett for a Copy of their Constitution and also for a Copy of the Oaths aforesaid to enable him to Act in his Office of Senr. Warden. Which Copys Said Leggett promis'd to send to him the said Brimage—but said Black said he would call for them next morning & would take Care of them & send or deliver them to said Brimage, and he accordingly came the next morning to the House of his Deponent, where by said Leggetts Order they were delivered Folded up by this Deponent to said Black, And Further this Deponent sayeth not—
Sworn before us Justices assign'd to keep the Peace for said County the day & year first above Written
Archd Corrie J.P
The above Thomas Harrison Senr. being admitted as Evidence for the State he acknowledges himself bound in the Sum of One hundred & fifty Pounds Current Money for his appearance at next Court of Oyer & Terminer to Held for the District of Edenton
Oath
Thomas Harrison Senr
vs Brimage S. Black &
Legett.
