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duty, Jones demanded the assistance of James Patter-* 

 sons, senior and junior, William McMannack, Alexander 

 McKe}/ , John Capper, John Hart, John Patten, James 

 Patten and Matthew Bailey, "who took three guns, and 

 these not loaded, serving only as an appearance of 

 defence," went to the house of jMr. Lowe, apprehended 

 Daniel and William, who made considerable resistance. 

 Mrs. Lowe raised an alarm to raise the neighborhood,* 

 whereupon, Thomas Cressap, William Canon and Ed- 

 Avard Evans, followed to rescue the prisoners, and 

 wounded John Hart; but were obliged to desist. Th© 

 Lowes were arrested and imprisoned at Lancaster. 



This was soon followed by more "unhappy frays," 

 accompanied by acts of atrocity committed by the Mary- 

 landers "upon the Pennsylvanians." The Lancaste- 

 rians were aroused to action, they called "to arms," and 

 a body of the mostr esolute, entered into JMaryland and 

 compelled Cressap and his associates to flee. The Lan- 

 casterians convinced the Marylanders that they were not 

 to be assailed with impunity. 



Though Lancaster county was without specified 

 limits, at this time, settlements had noAV been made west 

 of the Susquehanna, within the present boundaries of 

 York, Adams, Franklin, Cumberland, Perry; the inhabi- 

 tants in various parts presented petitions to the court at 

 Lancaster for the erection of townships. At the Novem- 

 ber session, 1735, upon the petition of many inhabitants 

 on the west side of the Susquehanna river, opposite to 

 Paxton, praying that the parts settled between said river 



*Lovve's house, where his sons .were taken, was within the 

 boundaries of Pennsylvania. About 400 people lived more 

 south than Lowe's house, who paid taxes in Lancaster county, 

 and had always acknowledged themselves inhabitants of Pena- 

 eylvania.— CoZ. Rcc. III. 507 



