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his Majesties Justices of the Peace of the said County requiring him, 

 this Deponent, to take, to his Assistance such persons as this Deponent 

 should think proper, & go down the River Schuylkill & remove all 

 such obstructions as should be found in the said Eiver, in obedience to 

 which Warrant this Deponent took several persons, Inhabitants of the 

 s'd County as his assistants, & together with one Robert Smith, Con- 

 stable of the Township of Only, who had received a warrant to the same 

 purpose, went down the said River in three Canoes to Mingo Creek 

 where they found a Large Number of Racks & obstructions in the 

 said River, & saw four men upon an Island near the said Racks, that 

 this Deponent & Company removed the s'd Racks without receiving 

 any opposition, from thence they proceeded down the River to the 

 Mouth of Pickering's Creek, near which they found several Racks, which 

 Reacht Across the s'd River to an Island, which Racks this Depon't & 

 Company also removed, that immediately after the s'd Racks were re- 

 moved, about the Number of two hundred Men came down on both 

 sides of the s'd River & were very Rude & Abusive & threatened this 

 Depon't & his Company, that the s'd Depon't expecting from the ill 

 Language and threats given that some mischief or a Quarrel would En- 

 sue, he took his Staff in his hand <fe his Warrant <fe Commanded the s'd 

 Men in the Kings Name to Keep the Peace & told them that he came 

 there in a peacable Manner & according to Law to Move the Racks 

 & Obstructions in the River, upon wliich some of the s'd Men Damn'd 

 the Laws & the Law-makers & Curs'd this Deponent & his Assistants, 

 That one James Starr Knockt this Deponent down in the River with a 

 large Clubb or Stake after which several of the said Men Attacktd this 

 Deponent & Company with large Clubbs & Knockt down the s'd Robert 

 Smith, the Constable as also of several of this Deponent's Assistants 

 that one John Wainwright, in company with this Deponent was Struck 

 down with a Pole or Staff & lay as Dead with his Body on the Shoar & 

 his ffeet in the River, That this Depon't & Company finding that they 

 were not able to make Resistance, were Obliged to make their best of 

 their Way in order to save their Lives, after which this Depon't, together 

 with the Constable of Only & some of their Company, proceeded down 

 the River, in order to go to Philadelphia, to make Complaint of the iU 

 Usage they had received, that as they came near Parkyooman Creek 

 they found another Sett of Racks, which Avere guarded by a great Num- 

 ber of Men, that this Depon't & Company, Requested the s'd Men to let 

 them go down the River, & if they wou'd Suffer them to pass that they 

 would not Meddle with their Racks, upon which the s'd Men abus'd & 

 Cursed this Depon't in a very Gross Manner, telling the s'd Depon't & 

 his Company that they should not pass by them. That one of the s'd 

 Men called out aloud & offered ffive Pounds for Timothy MUlers head 

 the s'd Timothy being one of the Depon'ts assistants & another of the 

 s'd Men called out to the s'd Timothy to make haste away. And after- 



