The Wilkes County Papers 1773-1833
                                By Robert Scott Davis, Jr.

(The editor would like to acknowledge the help of George Stevenson of the North
Carolina Division of Archives and History in bringing this document to his
attention.)

The MILLEN Deposition   ]
State of Georgia        ]
Wilkes County           ]

Personally appeared before me STEPHEN HERD one of the Justices assigned to keep the
peace WILLIAM MILLEN of the county of Richmond and District of Wrightsborough in the
State aforesaid who being duly sworn saith that on the twenty fourth day of this
instant he the deponent was sent for by one JAMES BOYD to the house of JOHN MOORE and
when he came there he found said MOORE, BOYD, & JAMES BRYAN talking by themselves and
after some little discourse said BOYD told him the Deponent that he had just come
from the Kings Army at Savannah and that he was going in to South Carolina to raise
men to join them and desired him, the Deponent [WILLIAM MILLEN], to show him the way
through the settlements and showed him Kings Proclamation and his instructions to
raise men, upon which said BRYAN desired BOYD to go and sound Mr. MATTOCK for he
knowed the King's Heart was in his bosom, and Deponent further saith that he believes
he did, accompanied by JOHN MOORE, but that he the Deponent went away and met with
PETER BUFFINGTON who told him he had seen such a man and some time after he met with
one JAMES COATES and JOSHUA RYAL and told them, and that they all three went to
THOMAS ANSLEY's and told him likewise and that said ANSLEY RYAL & COATES went to JOHN
MOORE to see him and when he the Deponent went there he found with them DAVID
BALDWIN, and the Deponent saith that they were all in discourses about the terms and
when BOYD found out that he bore a respect for the King he showed his proclamation
and the instructions he had to enlist men and further say that ANSLEY seemed to find
some fault with them and did not seem to like the terms they were upon but BOYD
desired them to let any friends they had or knew of know and hold themselves in
readiness to march down to Augusta and give up after the the Kings Army should arrive
and deponent further saith that he heard the said BOYD say the he intended to raise
men or his friends in the south and take Augusta in about six to ten days from the
date hereof and further this Deponent saith not.

Signed & Sworn before me this twenty-eighth day of January 1779.

WILLIAM MILLEN

STEPHEN HERD, Justice of Peace




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