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on the road one day, he met a party of militia men & a number of them old acquaintances. He was delighted to see them & stopped to have a scratched out gossip.

      "Well __ I'm right glad to have met you all; but I'm sorry I can't stay any longer with you. I'm obliged to go on about five miles, after some stray cattle in the woods there ___    
      "You won't think of quitting us ___
      "I must or I wouldn't "____
      "You must n't if you would" ____:"
      "What do you mean?"
      "You are our prisoner:" ___ and so Martin submitted & was escorted before a Justice of the Peace to McMinn County, Tennessee.
      The affidavit of Samuel M'Junkin was read to him, containing the charge under which he was arrested; & he was asked whether on that particular day & word scratched out at the place specified, he did not threaten to kill John Ridge" ___
       "That scratched out was the day I was drunk" said Martin,