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wiser judgment, to whose just censure we submit, and conclude with all 

 due regard. 



The Governor's most assured friends, 



" Jno, Wright, 

 "Sa. Blunston. 



"Hempfield, 80th December, 1732." 



Address thus : 

 " To the Hon'ble Patrick Gordon, Esq., Governor of Pennsylvania." 



After which were read likewise, the affidavits of James Hendricks, 

 William McMannack, John Capper, John Brubaker, Charles Jones, John 

 Patten, Alexander McKey, Joshua Minshal, Frances Ward, Eebecca 

 Hendricks, Joshua Lowe and Tobias Hendricks, setting forth : That James 

 Patterson being informed one or more of his horses wore killed near 

 John Lowe's plantation, and that his two sons, Daniel and William, had 

 been seen presenting a gun to fire at another, but were prevented 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 expostulations with his sons on that head, who were so far from 

 disowning the fact, that they said they would kill all the horses that came 

 upon that land, and having assaulted and grossly abused Patterson's mes- 

 sengers, 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 ; 

 that the Constable to whom the Precept was directed, having formerly 

 met with resistance from those people, and fearing new insults, (for 

 Thomas Cressop and his associates had threatened to shoot any officer of 

 Pennsylvania who should come into those parts to do his duty,) though 

 he only took his staff himself, yet thought it necessary to have a suitable 

 strength with him, and being assisted by James Patterson, senior and 

 junior, William McMannack, Alexander McKey, John Capper, John Hart, 

 John Patten, James Patten and Matthew Bailey, and no others, amongst 

 whom were only three guns, and these not loaded, serving only as an 

 appearance of defence, went quietly to the house of Lowe the Father, 

 and the door being open, he then apprehended Daniel and William his 

 two sons; that no disturbance was made but what was occasioned by the 

 resistance of the prisoners, and those who came to their relief, and in 

 preventing Lowe's wife from going out to raise the neighborhood ; that 

 in their return, Thomas Cressop, William Canon and Edward Evans 

 followed them to rescue the prisoners, and wounded John Hart, but were 

 obliged to desist; that Lowe's house where his sons were taken, is several 

 miles more northerly than Philadelphia, (which appears by a well known 

 Line that had been run above forty years since, on a due West course 



