The Loyalists in the American Revolution, By Claude Halstead Van Tyne:
Israel Williams though old and infirm was taken from his home at night a mob placed in a house with the doors and closed and smoked for several hours poet Trumbull has chronicled the result in the of M'Fingal which tells us that they smoked old Williams to a Whig. When the mob let him out he signed a paper promising not to serve on the Mandamus Council.
At Taunton some five hundred inhabitants assembled at the court house in which was the office of Daniel Leonard to express their sentiments against his acceptance of a place on the Mandamus Council Mr. Leonard disappeared and the crowd dispersed without disorder or violence but on the following evening certain Sons of Belial fired several balls into one of Leonard's chamber windows.
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