OF LANCASTER COUNTY. 101 



nineteenth and twentieth days of this instant, June, begin and compleat the 

 survey of the Mannor of Springetsbury, upon the River Susquahannah, 

 in manner following, viz : From a Red Oak upon the said River (by a 

 Run's side called Peun's Run) marked S. P. ; W. S. W. Ten .Miles to a 

 Chesnut (by a Run's side called French's Run) mark S. P. ; from thence 

 N. W. and b. N. to a Black Oak mark'd S. P. twelve miles; from thence 

 E. N. E. to Sir William Keith's western Corner Tree in the Woods, Eight 

 miles ; from thence along the S. E, and N. E. lines of the said Sir William 

 Keith Tract called Newberry unto the River Susquahannah again, and 

 from thence along the River Side to the place of beginning, The wliole 

 containing Seventy Five Thousand live Hundred and Twenty acres, 

 according to the Plan thereof hereunto annexed, all Avhich is humbly 

 submitted by 



Yr. Excellency's Most Humble & Obedient Servants, 



John French, 

 Fran. Worley, 



Ja. Mitchell. 

 At Newberry, June 21st, 1722. 



"The Governor of Maryland prepared at this time to make surveys on 

 the Susquehannah, within the bounds claimed by Pennsylvania, and 

 within the present county of York.^ Keith resolved to resist this attempt 

 by force, and ordered out a militia company from Newcastle. His 

 Council, however, discouraged every resort to violence, even should the 

 Marylanders employ force to effect their object. The Indians became 

 alarmed at the proposed encroachment from Maryland, and after much 

 hesitation, consented to convey to Keith, that he might have a better 

 title to resist the Marylanders, a large tract of land for the use of 

 Springett Penn, the grandson of William Penn, afterwards known by the 

 name of Springettbury manor. 



" The fears of the province were soon after again aAvakened by a 

 quarrel between two brothers named Cartledge, and an Indian near Con- 

 estogo, in which the latter Avas killed, with many circumstances of cru- 

 elty. The known principles of revenge professed by the Indians, gave 

 reason to apprehend severe retaliation. Policy and justice required a 

 rigid inquiry, and the infliction of exemplary punishment on the mur- 

 derers. The Assembly commanded a coroner's inquest to be holden on 

 the body, though two months buried in the interior of the country, and 

 the arrest of the accused. Messengers were despatched to the Five Na- 

 tions to deprecate hostilities, and, to prevent further irregularities, the 

 prohibition of the sale of spirituous liquors to the Indians was re-enacted 

 with additional penalties. The Indians invited Keith to meet them with 

 the Governors of Virginia, New York, and the New England Colonies, 



1 Gordor. 



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