At a Court of Sessions of the Peace, Oyer and Terminer and General Gaol Delivery held for the District of Edenton at the Court house in Edenton on the third Tuesday in September being the sixteenth day of the same month, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred & seventy seven, before the Honorable John Baptist Beasley Esquire Judge of the said Court.

The Jurors for the State aforesaid upon their Oath present that Absalom Leggitt—late of the County of Bertie Planter disregarding and contemping that true & due obedience, fidelity and allegiance, which every Subject of the said State should and of right ought to bear towards the said State on the twentieth day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy seven, in the County of Martin, and at divers other times and places, both before & since, did maliciously and advisedly endeavour to excite a great number of People to resist the Government of the said State, and did also dispose sundry People to favour the Enemy of the said State, and for those several purposes did persuade many Persons to enter into solemn Engagements to protect Deserters from the Army of the United States of America, to oppose a draught of any number of Men from the Militia of the said State, in case any public emergency should occasion a law for that purpose to be passed by the Legislature thereof, and to assist any of the said King's Forces that might be sent into the said State; against the Peace and Dignity of the said State, and also against the form of the Act of Assembly in that case made and provided.