othei's, and at the succeeding term of the circuit court
at Albany, judgments Averc obtained against him and three others.
It is said '• that Bri-ckexridgk made no defence, being within
twenty miles of Hudson's River;" 1)ut more probably because his
land was included in the Walloomsic patent, granted prior to tho
charter of Bennington.
From the result of these legal proceedings, '• It was hoped that
the riotous spirit would subside," and commissioners were again
sent to make partition of tho patent, who made complaint, that "on
the 20th of September they were again opposed and prevented
from eifecting said partition by a riotous and tumultuous body of
men," '-among whom was SiLAS RoBissoN," and three others
named. And thereupon Governor Duxmore issued anew proclama-
tion for the apprehension of the rioters. The sheriff afterwards
reported, that in obedience to tiieproclamation, he had arrested
Silas Robixson, one of the rioters; and thereupon the governor
and council made an order directing the attorney general to prose-
cute him. He was afterwards bailed but never tried.
The following case, among numerous others which Ave might re-
cord, will illustrate the character of the proceedings of the '• Green
Mountain Boys," or at least show how they Avere regarded and
represented by the " Yorkers." Benjamin Hough, who repre-
Bented himself as an " Anabaptist preacher of the gospel," resided
in Socialborough, a New York town on Otter Creek, embracing
the whole or a part of each of the towns of Clarendon and Rut-
land, had accepted a commission of justice of the peace, and was
an active friend of New York. In March, 1T75, he preferred his
petition to Governor Tryox, stating his