that said and were before they arrived at the City of & while they were there assured <​by​> the said Smith and many of the company who had traveled together from , (these affiants among the number,) that they should be protected from violence and that the said Smith did publickly declare in to the people there assembled that his honour was pledged that said should be protected from violence and requested every one to preserve his pledge inviolate. These affiants state further that no violence or threats to their knowledge or belief were made use of towards the said or the said either before or after their arrival at ; but the numbers who met and accompanied the said Smith and his escort on their journey conducted themselves in an orderly and peaceable manner and manifested only their attachment to said Smith and joy to find him safe in the custody of the laws of the State of all of which facts are true to the best of the knowledge and recollection of these affiants