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Sometime in 1732, as appears from the aifidavits of 

 James Hendricks, William McMannack, John Capper, 

 Jolm Brubaker, Charles Jones, John Patten, Alexander 

 ]McKey, JoshnaMinshal, Francis Ward, Rebecca Plen- 

 dricks, Joshua and Tobias Hendricks, taken before John 

 Wright and Samuel Blunston, Hempfield, that "James 

 Patterson had been informed that one or more of his 

 horses had been killed near John Lowe's plantation, and 

 that his two sons, Daniel and William, had been seen 

 presenting a gun to fire at another horse, but were pre- 

 vented by being discovered, sent some persons thither to 

 enquire into the truth of the matter, who, finding one of 

 them lying dead near Lowe's house, made some expos- 

 tulations with his sons on that head, who were so far 

 from disowning the fact, that they said they would kill 

 all the horses which came upon that land, and having 

 assaulted and grossly abused Patterson's messenger, 

 threatened they would tie and whip all those he should 

 send over thither ; that upon complaint hereof made, a 

 warrant was issued for apprehending the two persons 

 who had been thus guilty of that assault." The war- 

 rant was directed to Charles Jones, constable of Hemp- 

 field township, who, with his staff in hand, and in con- 

 sequence of threats from Thomas Cressap and his asso- 

 ciates — "' Maryland intruders," — to shoot any officer 

 of Penns^^lvania, who came into those parts to do his 



Note. — Thomas Pcnn, son of William Penn, arrived in 

 Pennsylvania, 1732. He was at Lancaster in October, 1736 — 

 signed licenses or grants for settlements that had been made 

 previously on the west side of the Susquehanna. Samuel 

 Blunston was engaged as his agent to grant licenses for 12,000 

 acres, to satisfy the rights of settlers, &c. These licenses, or 

 rather promises to the settlers, to grant them patents for the 

 lands they had settled, are signed by T. Penn, himself. — 



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