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of the said County, and four others, to wit : Arthur Buchanan, Matthew 

 George, John Mitchel, and Alexander Mitchel, who the day before went 

 over Sasquehannah Kiver, in a peaceable manner, and without any arms 

 whatsoever, to execute His Majesty's Writs on some debtors living on the 

 West side of that River, inhabitants of the said County; -that the said 

 Sheriff having served a Writ on one Andrew M'Gill, who not being able 

 to give bail to the action, was sent under custody of the two Mitchels to 

 Lancaster Goal, he, the said Sheriff, with the others, went the day follow- 

 ing to serve another Writ at the suit of William Branson, of the City of 

 Philadelphia, Merchant, on one Jacob Lochman, Blacksmith, living about 

 seven miles westerly from the house of John Hendricks, and about 

 twenty-three miles to the Northward of the Octararoe Line, which this 

 deponent is informed was run by the Grandfather of the present Lord 

 Baltimore, as the Northern boundary of Maryland. That having served 

 the said Writ on Lochman, who being likewise unable to give bail to the 

 action, they were bringing him to Lancaster Goal, when within about 

 two or three miles west of John Hendrick's house, one Mark Evans, 

 planter, met them and asked the Sheriff where he was carrying Lochman; 

 the Sheriff said he was carrying him to Goal unless he would give bail; 

 to this Evans replied that he believed bail could be found, which he had 

 no sooner said, than about twenty or thirty men on horseback, armed 

 with cutlasses and clubs, appeared at a little distance advancing towards 

 them, and coming up fell upon the Sheriff and his assistants, in a most 

 furious and violent manner, and having beat and grievously wounded 

 them, and rescued Lochman, the said Sheriff and his company were forcfed 

 to betake themselves to flight; but the Sheriff's horse failing him he fell 

 again into their hands; upon which he, this deponent, with Arthur 

 Buchanan and Matthew George, stopped at some small distance, and saw 

 four men at once beating the said Sheriff with heavy clubs, who with his 

 hands lifted up was endeavoring to save his head; that being overpow- 

 ered by numbers and violently pulled off his horse, he was so cruelly 

 used that Arthur Buchanan with this deponent, were resolved to go back 

 and suffer with him ; but as they drew near the Sheriff called out to his 

 Brother, the said Arthur, not to hazard more lives, his own he hoped 

 would be suflUcient for them. And that hereupon some of those rioters 

 pursued him, this deponent, and with a very heavy cudgell struck him 

 so severe a blow across his back, that he has ever since been under very 

 great pain. And that the said Arthur Buchanan and Matthew George 

 were so extreamly beat and bruised likewise, that it was not without the 

 utmost diffiiculty that they were able to escape. And this deponent 

 further says, that when he left Sasquehannah there were no accounts of 

 the High Sherifi', nor was it known whether he was dead or alive, but this 

 deponent verily believes the said Sheriff is mortally wounded, or at least 



