Dutchess County Historical Society Yearbook Vol 056 1971

855 West End Avenue, Apt. 1B New York, N. Y. 10025 Dutchess County Historical Society, c/o Mr. Frank V. Mylod, Poughkeepsie, N. Y. Dear Sir: I am sending you the enclosed MS in case you would be interested in publishing it in the Yearbook of the Dutchess County Historical Society.

I transcribed it while cataloguing the papers of the Mayor's Court of New York City, which at the moment are deposited in the Historical Documents Collection at Queens College of the City University of New York at Flushing, New York. I have not annotated it, since its interest seems to be self-evident.

Yours truly, (Sgnd.) Brigid Allen The following document, which properly belongs to the papers of the court of Common Pleas of Dutchess County, was found among the papers of the Mayor's Court of New York City. Its presence there is clearly accidential, since it deals with a matter outside the jurisdiction of the Mayor's Court. It has been transcribed with its original spelling and capitalization.

Brigid Allen.

A COPY OF AN AFVIDAFIT OF THE ACTIONS AND BEHAVIOUR OF THOMAS VORCE SINCE THE YEAR AD 1758 JUNE. He told me that he was first griped under one of his apple trees and that there Kept about 20 flying person about his Barn Which gave him wisdom and Knowledge above all other persons and he Told me that there was three or four Rounds of the world one above the other which he could preceive to grow Day after Day and he has taken me to the Door for to Look and I Told him I could not see it and he said he could see them grow as plain as the Sun Shines and afterwards Told me that he had about 20 powers within him Which he oftencaled them young Thomases and Kept in his Synews and caused that he could not work Because they had Not got their growth they were very young and Growing Very fast and caused a pain But when they had their growth he would be well and them powers Learnt him to Speak twenty four Languages and to Sing 21 Hymes which No other person could Speak Nor Sing but him and has often Sung them in my hearing but I could Not understand them and has Stood and acted and kept his Body Very Strangely and Held his Breath and Burst out with a Strange Noise and asked me what it was I Told him it was his Breath But he Said it was Not but that it were them powers or young Thomases with in him And that his Son John has Been Struck with many a Stroke and that he is Never to Die and said that I Shall Never Die and has Mentioned Several other persons that are Never to Die and that he has More Knowledge and wisdom than all the Lawyers 94