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\ the board, to support liim in the execution of their orders, 

 rWhen the sheriff entered the field, tlie invaders retired,. 

 I mt returned as soon as his force was witiidrawn. Cap- 

 tvires were made on both sides. The German settlers 

 w*rc harassed perpetually; in many instances driven 

 froau their farms, and in others deterred from every 

 attempt to plant or improve. 



f'ln May, 1737, the council sent Samuel Preston and 

 John Kinsey, on an embassy to Governor Ogle, to treat 

 on some measures which might preserve the quiet of 

 the border, until the pleasure of the King should be 

 known, to whom both parties had appealed. But Go- 

 vernor Ogle requiring some concessions incompatible 

 with the rights of the proprietaries of Pennsylvania, 

 file deputies returned without having made any agree- 

 ment. In October, 1737, a party of Marylanders, six- 

 teen daring fellows, under the direction of a desperadoy 

 named Richard Lowder, broke open the jail al Lan- 

 caster, and released the rioters wlio had been appre- 

 hended by th? sheriff, among wliom was a brother of 

 the leader. Fortunately, when indignation was prompt- 

 ing the inhabitants on l:)oth sides of the line to further 

 breaclies of peace, an order of the King in council, on 

 the subject of the boundary, induced both parties to re- 

 frain from further violence, to drop all persecutions,, 

 and to discharge their respective prisoners on bail." 



In 1738, a respectable number of Swiss and Germans 

 having applied, were naturalized. Many of the appli- 

 cants had been in the country as early as 1727, 1 ul the 

 gi-eater part of them came in between 1731 and 1735. — 

 TIk! AfM was passed at a session held from October, 173S> 

 to May, 1739. 



The following arc the names of tiiose naturalizod^all 

 of Lancaster ccuntv: 



