Middlesex ss at the Supreme Judicial Court begun & holden at Concord
within & for the County of Middlesex on the ninth day of May in the
SS Year of Our Lord, — seventeen hundred and eighty seven by adjourn-
ments to that time from the first Tuesday of the same May in pur-
suance of Law
The Jurors for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts upon this oath present that
Job Shattuck of Groton in the County of Middlesex Gentleman, & Oliver Parker
of
Groton aforesaid Gentleman, being members & Subjects of this Commonwealth
and
owing allegiance to the same, not having the fear of God in their hearts, nor
having
any regard to the duty of their allegiance, but being moved & seduced by
a lawless &
rebellious spirit, and withdrawing from the said Commonwealth that cordial
Love, and due obedience, fidelity and allegiance which every member of the same
Commonwealth of right to bear to it — and also most wickedly & traitorously
devising and conspiring to levy war against this Commonwealth, & thereby
most wickedly and traitiorously intending as much as in them lay to change
& subvert the rule and Government of this Commonwealth, duly and happily
established under the good people the Inhabitants and members of the same ac-
cording to their Constitution and form of Government of the same, and to re-
duce them to anarchy, lawless power and confusion, on the eleventh day of September
in the Year of our Lord seventeen hundred & eighty six, and on divers other
days &
times as well before that time as afterwards, at Concord aforesaid within the
County
of Middlesex aforesaid did devise and conspire to levy war against this Com
monwealth, and then & there with a great number of rebels and traitors against
the Commonwealth aforseaid viz the number of Five hundred, whose names
are yet unknown to the Jurors, being armed and arrayed in a warlike and
hostile manner viz with Drums beating, Fifes playing & with Guns, Pistols,
Bayonets, Swords, clubs, and divers other weapons, as well offensive as defensive
with
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