soon made this known to Mr. Dixon, the owner of the house, & his friends, who gathered round the Hotel Door, and gave to understand, that if that was their mode of doing business in , they had another way of doing it here <​in ,​> they were a law abiding people, and were republicans, & gave to understand, that they should not take me away without giving me the opportunity of a fair trial, & that I should have justice done me, but that if they persisted in their course, they had a very summary way of dealing with such people. finding further resistance to be useless, allowed & to come into the room to me, (but was inside, guarding the door, & guarded the outside of the door) when I told them, I had been taken a Prisoner by these men , I had been insulted & abused by them, & shewed them my flesh which was black <​for about 18 inches in circumference​> on each side from their punching me with their pistols, for 18 inches in circumference, on each side, & I wanted them to sue out a writ of ; when swore he should only wait half an hour, to give me a chance. A messenger was immediately sent by Mr. Dixon to Mr. Chamberlin the Master in , who lived 6 miles distant, & another messenger to , who happened to be near, to have them come down & get out the writ of Habeas Corpus—