270 HISTORY or 



the board, to support him in the execution of their orders. 

 When the sheriff entered the field, the invaders retired, 

 but returned as soon as his force was withdrawn. Cap- 

 tures were made on both sides. The German settlers 

 were harassed perpetually; in many instances driven 

 from their farms, and in others deterred from every 

 attempt to plant or improve. 



"In 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, 

 the deputies returned without having made any agree- 

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

 teen daring fellovv's, under the direction of a desperadoy 

 named Richard Lowder, broke open the jail at Lan- 

 caster, and released the rioters who had been appre- 

 hended b]^ the sheriff, am^ong whom was a brother of 

 the leader. Fortunate]}^, when indignation was prompt- 

 ing the inhabitants on both sides of the line to further 

 breaciies 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. Ivlany of the appli- 

 cants had been in the country as early as 1727, but the 

 greater part of them came in between 1731 and 1735. — 

 The Acr was passed at a session held from October, 1738^ 

 to May. 1739. 



The lo' lowing arc the names of those naturalized, all 

 of Lancaster county: 



