Philadelphia County ss. ー

Personally appeared John Conners Carpent[ers] Mate of the Cabot Sloop of War in the service of America and made oath, that he went to Sir John Johnston's in Tryon county in the province of New York sometime in March last where he was employed as a Carpenter, and that whilst he was there the said Sir John harboured Alexander White Esquire Sheriff of Tryon county, who had fled to him for protection, the said White having attempted to go to Colonel Guy Johnston at Montreal together with him the said deponent, a certain Peter Bowen, Lewis Clement, and three Indians, but prevented by being made prisoners by [William] Gilleland Esquire & others ー That a certain James McDonald of Johnstown is (he believes) a Captain in the King's army [&] that the said Captain McDonald during the last summer inlisted a great number of scotch roman-catholics as soldie[rs] in his Majesty's service, and gave them a bounty of twelve or fourteen pounds lawful money of New-York, that Sir John Johnston was privy to said inlisting & gave a [gun] to each ー that the said Captn McDonald continued to inlist Soldiers until the latter end of October, and that Sir John constantly gave them arms ー That a tonn [of] powder arrived from Canada to Sir John Johnston's about the latter end of August ー That he this depon[ent] with certain Samuel Sutton, Arthur Redman, Captn McDonald & Robert Pickin assisted the said Sir John to bury the afsd tonn of powder & fifty three chests of arm[s] each chest containing twenty five guns, called blue-boars, in a hole about five hundred yards from the said Sir John's house, on the 25th day of October last in the night-time, where he believes they now remain. That there are a large number of others arms, of Indian Blankets, and some cannon swivels at said Sir John Johnston's. ー And further this deponent saith not. ー

Sworn at Philadelphia Decr 29th 1775. before Thos Willing. ー