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The Virginia Gazette
Williamsburg, Virginia
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In Rochester, New Hampshire, on November 8, 1774, a committee of correspondence confronted Nicholas Austin for allegedly recruiting artificers to build barracks for British soldiers in Boston, forcing him to confess and pledge loyalty on his knees.
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On Tuesday the 8th instant the committee of correspondence at this place, at the desire of a number of people, wrote to Mr. Nicholas Austin, of Middletown, to attend them at the house of Mr. Stephen Wentworth, it being suspected that he was employed in procuring artificers at Wolfborough, &c. to go to Boston to build barracks for the soldiery there. Mr. Austin accordingly waited upon them, and the charge in some measure being proved against him, he was obliged on his knees, as nothing less would satisfy, to make the following confession, viz. "Before this company I confess I have been and assisting in sending men to Boston to build barracks for the soldiers to lie in; at which you have justly to be offended which I am sorry for, and humbly ask your forgiveness; and in the future, I never will be willing on whatever, in ad or deed, contrary to the constitution of the country, as witness my hand."
NICHOLAS AUSTIN
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Rochester, In New Hampshire
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Tuesday The 8th Instant
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nicholas austin confessed on his knees and signed a pledge not to act contrary to the constitution.
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The committee of correspondence summoned Nicholas Austin to Mr. Stephen Wentworth's house due to suspicions of recruiting artificers for building barracks in Boston; the charge was partly proved, leading to his forced confession.