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, in the year of our Lord One thousand even hundred & seventy seven, being the sixteenth day of the same month, before the Honorable John Baptist Beasley Esquire Judge of the said Court.

The Jurors for the State aforesaid upon their Oath present that Daniel Legett—late of the County of Martin Taylor disregarding & contemning that true & due obedience, fidelity & 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 & seventy seven ^in the County of Martin aforesaid^ and at divers other times and places, both before and 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, and to oppose a draught of any number of them 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; 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.