The mob obeyed, and on their way they saw the wife of John Manee, Esq. sister to Dr. Peters, at whom they discharged three musket-balls, which missed her. The mob huzzaed, and cried out, “We are dam’d sorry!” The troopers carried Dr. Peters into the house of David Barber, Esq. where they put on his clothes, and conducted him home to his half-ruined house. The next day Dr. Peters went in his carriage and called on Governor Trumbull, and demanded his protection against the Windham mobs. The Governor replied: “I was once Governor of the people, but they have taken all power out of my hands into their own; and you must apply to them for protection, and it is in your power to gain it.” Dr. Peters asked his Honour to tell him by what means. The Governor said: “By signing the paper they presented to you yesterday, which you refused to sign, and so brought on you their just resentment.” Dr. Peters replied: “Sir, do you think it my duty to sign the eighteen articles your son David, at the head of a mob, demanded me to sign?” The Governor answered: “Yes, by all means.” Dr. Peters: “Do you wish to have me justify the outrageous action of casting into the sea the teas, the property of English merchants?” The Governor replied: “Yes; and all friends of America will do it.” Dr. Peters: “Did your Honour mean to have me guilty of perjury and high treason, by signing those eighteen articles, which you wrote and gave to your son David for me to sign?” The Governor replied: “Why do you say I wrote those eighteen articles?” Dr. Peters answered: “Because I read them, and well know your handwriting; and your son David, Major Wright, and Mr. Croker, told me so, and that you had sent them to demand my signature to the paper. I told them I dare not and could not sign them without committing perjury and high treason, and violating my own conscience and God’s laws.” The Governor replied: “There is no treason in saying that George the Third, King of England, is a ‘Roman Catholic,’ a ‘tyrant,’ and an ‘idiot,’ and has forfeited the crown; that no true friend of America ought to obey him, or any of his laws.” Dr. Peters here arose and took leave of the Governor, with the Hon. William Hillhouse and Capt. David Tarbox, who had been present during the interview, and, when out of the house, declared they were astonished at the words and conduct of the Governor. Dr. Peters then rode to the Judges of the Supreme Court sitting at Hertford, Col. Eliphalet Dyer being one of the Judges, and desired the Court to protect him from the mob at Windham, who had ill-used him, and threatened to take his life in four days if he did not sign his name to a paper containing eighteen treasonable articles. The Court replied: “We are ready to do our duty, when the King’s Attorney shall exhibit an indictment against the rioters.” The Attorney arose, and told the Court that it was the duty of the Grand Jury to exhibit the indictment, and not his.