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Nicolas Melchior,
Christian Van Laaschet,
Baltzer Stephanns,
Johannes Kirkt,
Johan Lutwig Wyker,
Johan Philip Wick,
Johan Henrich Brunner,
Johan Philip Wergonner,
Abraham Appler,
Abraham Tegast,
Johan Jorig Basil,
Johannes Hannewald,
Ludwig Camerer,
Johannes Lorentz,
Johannes Michael Weygall,
Abraham Tirgartz,
Laborious Merschottz,
Jacob Kemlie,
Christian Schricak,
Johan Valentine Fokt,
Conrad Frankberger,
Johan Mathias Fokt,
Johannes Brosinger,
Johan Daniel Braunn,
Daniel Meyer,
Johan Michael Crowel,
Johannes Rossman,
George Nicolas Sysloof,
Johannes Hess,
Johan Baltzer Sysloof,
Christof Windematt,
Yorig Sysloof,
Paulus Brunner,
Wilhelm Hetterling,
Johan Jorig Vanbott,
Daniel Nargar,
Johannes Jorig Shirtler,
Johan Peter Nargar,
Johannes Conrad Grim,
Nicolas Traber,
Christian Landes,
Michael Dom,
Michael Linder,
Johan Christopher Treber, Carl Kern,
Andreas Gross,
Nicolas Rebell,
Johan Adam Shans,
Johan Jorig Jaky,
Leonhart Yeager,
Jacob Amandus, Andreas Yokam,
Johan Valentine Schere,
Leonhart Cranbach,
Peter Roop,
Emcent Shadlin,
Michael Noll,
Jacob Hofstedler,
Isaac Adolph Delb,
Jacob Eyser,
Johan Jacob Christler,
Johannes Rubell,
Johannes Mayer,
Friedrick Bregell,
Nicolas Anger,
Jacob Jeyser, Aaron Cook,
Casper Meyer,
Friedrick Minhart,
Christian Stukly, Casper Stelling,
Rudolph Hackmann,
Jacob Fellman, Jacob Sonday, Cornelius Weygandt,
Johan Jacob Nuss,
Dewalt Beyer,
Hans Conrats Bab,
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Johannes Schnieder, Johannes Zacharias,
Lutwig Meyer,
Thomas Hummel,
Zacharias Sekler,
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, Abraham Snider,
Johannes Brunb,
Matthias Dick,
Henrich Wolgamot,
Ludwig Lay,
Abraham Wolgamot,
Christian Erb,
Joseph Wolgamot,
Johan Jorig Wintermont,
Jorig Adam Warner,
Peter Heironimous,
Christian Suder,
Peter Rentsh,
Johannes Gerber,
Hans Melchior Byer,
Jonadan Heger,
Andreas Nargang,
Matthias Reser,
Johannes Butler,
Jacob Cuntz,
Clemens Stout Ceeker,
Jacob Hollinger,
Mathias Speck,
Jacob Ledtreman,
Derrick Mart,
Jacob Kochnour,
Hans Jacob Woyl,
Herman Crott,
Johan Wilhelm Speck,
Johan Philip Mentz,
Peter Stoutbecker,
Henrich Wydebach,
Henrich Garhart,
Casper Coppersmidt,
Andreas Brimm,
Johannes Frankeberger,
Johan Jacob Tonaspeck,
Andreas Frank,
Andreas Haillman,
Adam Vampull,
Johan Mathias Brouch,
Hans Jorig Hantwerg,
Hans Peter Fegelin,
Johannes Fuchs,
Hans Jorig Mien,
Godfriedt Grill,
Johannes Rotroke,
Johan Adam Honanschell,
Johan Jacob Paalt,
Johan Peter Vampull,
Johan Jacob Zyderman,
Jorig Mich Freidrich,
Nicolas Post,
Johan Albrecht Sigle,
Henrich Dubbs,
Johan Peter Marstiller,
Andreas Cratz,
Johan Jorig Lonarb,
Jacob Libhart,
Christopher Rudolph.
Valentine Noy,
At a Council held at Philadia., September 7th, 1736.
PRESENT :
Honble JAMES LOGAN, Esqr., President.
Clement Plumsted,
Samuel Hasell,
Thomas Laurence,
Thomas Griffitts, Esquires.
Ralph Assheton.
The President laid before the Board a Letter he received last night from the Lieut. Governor of Maryland which being read in these Words :
"SIR :- This trouble is occasioned by the Inclosed, the Original whereof came to my hands a few days agoe, subscribed with the Names of fifty or sixty Persons, who some years since importuned me for the Grant of Lands under the authority & Government of the Lord
Nicolas Lang, Adam Boher,
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Proprietary of Maryland ; they were so successfull in their appli- cations, that I directed & empowered them to settle & improve the Lands under the Government of this Province, and which they have from that Time held and enjoyed subject to his Lordships Domin- ion & authority : But now they seem to think fitt, and resolve, by a most extraordinary kind of illegal Combination or Association, to disown their obedience to the Government from whom they received their possessions, and to transfer it to the Government of Pennsyl- vania.
" Whatever reasons I may have to be assured of this Proceeding taking its Rise and Accomplishment from the Encouragement & Prevalency of some Magistrates of your Government, & Others pre- tending to act under the Countenance & authority thereof; yet I must own my Unwillingness to believe those who have the honour of the Administration of the Government of Pensilvania, would permit or support a Behaviour so contrary to all good Order & Rule of the English Constitution ; as must necessarily involve the Sub- jects of his Majesty in Struggles & Contentions, inconsistent with that Peace & Happiness his Majesty so gloriously endeavours to maintain & preserve amongst Others, as well as his Subjects.
" As I must frankly acknowledge, that I think it my indispensa- ble Duty to take the most proper Measures to make such of these Violators of the Peace of this Government in particular, and the Good Rules and Orders of Society in General, who continue on the Possessions they received from this Government, sensible of the In- justice of this unwarantable attempt, so I rest assured of receiving from your Government all the Assistance necessary for that Purpose against such who may vainly imagine to shelter themselves under your Protection. I am,
" Sir, " Your most Obedient humble Servant,
" SAM. OGLE.
" Annapolis, 31st August, 1736."
" To the President of the Council of Pensilvania, or Commander- in-Chief there, Philadelphia."
The Paper transmitted with the said Letter & referred to therein, is as follows :
Lancaster County, in Pensilvania.
" SIR :- The Oppression & ill Usage We have met with from the Government of Maryland, or at least from such Persons who have been impowered thereby and their Proceedings connived at, has been a treatment (as We are well informed) very different from that which the Tenants of you Government have generally met with, which, with many other cogent Reasons, give us good Cause to conclude the Governor & Magistrates of that Province do not themselves believe us to be settled within the reall bounds of his
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Lordship's Dominions, but We have been seduced and made use of, first by fair promises & afterwards by threats and punishments, to answer purposes which are at present unjustifiable, and will if pur- sued tend to our Utter Ruin.
" We, therefore, the subscribers, with many Others, Our Neigh- bors, being become at last truely sensible of the wrong We have done the Proprietors of Pensilvania in settling on their Lands witlı- out paying Obedience to their Government, do resolve to return to Our Duty, and live under the Laws & Government of Pensilvania, in which Province We believe Ourselves seated.
" To this We unanimously resolve to adhere, 'till the Contrary shall be determined by a Legal Decision of the disputed Bounds, and our honest & just Intentions We desire may be communicated to the Governor of Maryland, or whom else it may concern.
" Signed with Our own hands this Eleventh day of August, Anno Dom., 1736."
Then was read the examination of one Francis Kipps, taken here on Saturday the fourth instant, before two of His Majesty's Jus- tices, in these Words :
" Francis Kipps, of Maryland, Master of the Sloop Batchelor's Hall, now lying in Sasquehannah River, aged about thirty-eight years, being examined upon Oath before Clem't Plumsted & Charles Read, Esqrs., two of His Majesty's Justices, saith,
" That on thursday last, the second instant, in the evening, this Examinant, being on his private' business in Baltimore County, he saw Colonel Hall, a Gentleman of that County, at the head of a con- siderable Number of Men (but how many this Examinant cannot say) on Horseback, armed with Guns, marching towards the upper part of the said County, that this Examt. passing near to Col. Hall, asked him familiarly if he was going to fight, to wch. Mr. Hall answered he was going on peaceable terms: That this Examt. cross- ing Sasquehannah near North East Iron works, came the same evening into Cecil County, where he understood by common Report, that the March of these Men under Col. Hall was to give Possession to one Cressap of a Plantation of one Wright, that if the same could not be done peaecably they were to use Force : That this Examt. heard the Militia of Cecil County was summoned to meet together.
" Taken before Us at Philadia., Sept. 4th, 1736.
FRA. KIPPS.
" Clemt. Plumsted,
" Charles Read."
Upon all which the President desiring the advice of this Board, and the matter being duely considered, The Board are of Opinion, that a proper Answer cannot be given to the Lieut. Governor of Maryland until the Proceedings in Lancaster County are more fully and clearly known.
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At a Council held at Philadia., September 8th, 1736.
PRESENT :
The Honble JAMES LOGAN, Esqr., President.
Clement Plumstead,
Samuel Hasell, 1
Thomas Laurence,
Thomas Griffitts,
Ralph Assheton,
Charles Read,
Esqrs.
The meeting of the Board at this time being to consider of the Draught of an answer to Governor Ogle, and it having been the Opinion of most of the Members at the preceeding Council, that some accounts from Lancaster were necessary to be had before that Answer could be fully completed, the President laid before the Board a Letter he had but an hour since received, dated the seventh instant, & wrote by Direction of Mr. Blunston, who was so much engaged in attending the Affairs then transacting on the west side of Sasquehannah, as not to be able to write himself, which Letter gives the following Account :
That after the Sherif of Lancaster, and some People with him, who were gathered together on the Report that an armed force from Maryland was coming up into those parts, had waited some time and were dispersed, the Sherif of Baltimore County, with upwards of two hundred Men, under the Command of several military Officers, arrived on Saturday night last, the fourth of this Month, at Thoma's Cressap's, and on Sunday, about noon, came in arms on Horseback, with Beat of Drum & Sound of Trumpet, to the Plantation of John Hendrick's; that the said Sherif of Baltimore, and several of those Officers, went that afternoon to the House of John Wright, Junr., where about thirty Inhabitants of Lancaster were assembled, & demanded the Dutch, of whom some were then in that House, that the Sherif of Lancaster had sent a written Message, desiring to know the Reason of their coming in that hostile manner, to threaten the Peace of the Province, to which they had returned answer, that they were not come to disturb the Peace of the Province of Penn- sylvania, but to suppress Riots, & keep the . Peace of Baltimore County; That Justice Guest, one of the Number from Maryland, appointed ten a'clock next day to speak with some of our People, but about five a'clock on Sunday evening, the Multitude from Mary- land left Hendrick's with great Precipitation, & returned to Cres- sap's; That on Monday the Sherif of Lancaster sent another Mes- sage in writing, requiring them peaceably to depart, and offering, if any of them would meet the Magistrates of the County, with some Other Persons who were on this Occasion assembled with him, & endeavour amicably to settle the unhappy Differences at present subsisting, that they should be received civilly; to this Message the Sherif of Lancaster had returned a threatening and insolent answer; that soon after this, one John Wilkin, an Inhabitant of Lancaster County, who had gone down towards Cressap's, was taken Prisoner,
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on pretence of his having been in a former Riot, and sent under a Guard to Maryland; that the Magistrates of Lancaster sent a letter to reclaim him, but they refused to receive the Letter; that it was reported the Governor of Maryland was waiting in Baltimore County, & was expected up in those parts on Susquehannah with consider- ably more Force; That the Sherif of Lancaster had gott about a hundred & fifty People together at John Wright's, Junr., where they have continued since Sunday evening, that no Hostilities had been yet committed, except in taking Wilkins, but that the Mary- landers had sent Word to our People to take Care of their Buffs; that the Inhabitants, tho' unprovided with arms & Amunition, yet endeavoured to defend themselves & such of His Majesties Peaceable Subjects as fled from their Houses to them for Refuge.
With the Letter aforesaid was transmitted the following Petition, Signed by forty-eight Germans :
" To The Honourable James Logan, Esqr., President, and the Council of the Province of Pennsylvania,
"The Petition of Most of the Inhabitants on the west side of Susquehannah River, Opposite to Hempfield, in the County of Lan- caster,
" Humbly Sheweth,
" That your Petitioners, two or three years past (Being many of us then newly arrived in America), & altogether Strangers to the Boundaries of the two Boundaries of Pennsylvania & Maryland, were, by many plausable pretences and fair promises, perswaded to settle under the Government of the Latter, Supposing from what we were then told that these Lands were within that Province, and that the River Sasquehannah was the Division; But, after we were Seated, finding the usage we received was very Different from that to the rest of the Government, and what small substance we had was made a prey to some Persons Impowered by them; And, tho' we Often made known our Cause of Complaint, could have no Re- dress, Nor the Promises which had been first made us, in the Least Regarded-Being also lately told by some in Power there, that we were worse than Negroes, for that we had no Master, nor were under the protection of any Laws, and since Informed by them that the River Sasquehannah Could not be the bounds, as we had at first been told, but that an East and West Line would Divide the Pro- vinces; and also observing that the People on the East Side of the said River, Inhabitants of Pennsylvania, who live much more to the Southward than we do, Enjoy'd their Possessions peaceably, with- out any Disturbance or Claim from the Province of Maryland: Wec, from these Reasons, Concluded we had been Imposed upon, & Deluded to Answer some purposes of the Government of Mary- land, which are not Justifiable, and might in the End tend to Our Ruin, and that we were not Settled within the true & Real Bounds of that Province, as we had been made to Believe; And from a
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Sense thereof, and of the wrong we were doing to the Proprietors of Pennsylvania, in living on their Lands (as we now conceive we are) without paying the Acknowledgements due to them for the same, and in Denying Obedience to the Laws of your Government, Unanimously Resolved, to Return to our Duty. Your Humble Petitioners therefore pray you would Impute our Late Errours to Our want of Better Information, and would be pleased to receive us under the Protection of your Laws and Government, To which, for the future, we promise all ffaithful Obedience & Submission; And in Granting this Our Humble Petition, your Petitioners, as in Duty Bound, shall Ever pray for your Health & Prosperity. Signed with Our Own Hands, & Dated the thirteenth day of August, One Thou- sand Seven Hundred & thirty-six."
The Board taking the letter & Petition aforesaid into their serious consideration, the following Draught of a Letter to the Justices & High Sherif of the County of Lancaster was prepared and agreed to :
" Gentlemen :
"The accounts we have this day received of the military & war- like Preparations of our Neighbours of Maryland, which are said to be intended against some of the Inhabitants of your County of Lan- caster in this Province, cannot but very much surprize us, as such Proceedings must undoubtedly be construed a Levying of War against His Majesty's Subjects, & it being your indispensable Duty, by all proper means in your power, to prevent all Riots and Hostili- ties, & to preserve His Majesty's Peace in your County, you are to exert your utmost Endeavours for that End; but if you shall find the same like to prove ineffectual, we must observe to you that by the Laws of this Province, riotous & tumultuous Meetings being Subject to the same Punishments as in England, you are to cause the Proclamation, directed by the act of the 1st of the late King, to be made, in doing whereof, that you may proceed agreeably to the Directions of the said act, we send you herewith a Copy of the same ; and if any Opposition should either be made to the reading of the Proclamation, or if they should think fitt to disregard it when read, you are to direct the Sherif to be ready with the Posse of the County to protect and defend His Majesty's Subjects, Inhabitants of the same, from all Insults or Outrages, taking special Care at the same time that you do not by any precipitant Step or fruitless Opposition to a superior Force expose the Lives of any of the King's Subjects. It is likewise incumbent on you, & you are not to omitt taking the most exact Notice and making the best Observations you can of all Proceedings herein, that a distinct and full account may be given of them & the names of the Persons that are most active in promoting & carrying on such Disturbances, that a proper appli- cation may be made thereupon to His Majesty, from whose Justice VOL. IV .- 5.
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& Goodness we may be assured of a suitable Redress to His injured subjects.
"Signed in behalf of the Council, by " Your Loving Friend, "JAMES LOGAN, President."
And the answer to Governor Ogle, with the other matters relating thereto, are continued under Consideration.
At a Council held at Philadia., September 10th, 1736. PRESENT :
. The Honble JAMES LOGAN, Esqr., President.
Clement Plumsted, Thomas Griffitts,
Samuel Hasell, Charles Read, Esqrs.
An account from the Justices of Lancaster County being late last night brought to town by Robert Barber & delivered to the President, was this day read at the Board in these words-
"To James Logan, Esqr., President, & the Council.
"Pursuant to the Directions from the President and Council, the papers which have past Between us & the Marylanders in their Late attempt upon this Province, are here ffaithfully transmitted with such Material Occurrances as have hapened since the last account dated the Seventh of this Instant was wrote.
"Upon Hearing the Sherif of Baltimore County with a Con- siderable force was Come up to Cressap's on Saturday night last, a Messenger was sent by us on Sunday to Enquire into the truth of the report, & Bring an account of their number, by whom, for his Security, we Sent the following Message signed by Our Sherif : "Lancaster County :
"The Inhabitants of Pennsylvania are Informed that a Con- siderable Number of People out of the Province of Maryland are Come in a Hostile Manner to Conejohela to Disturb the Peace of this Province, and this Messenger is sent to Know the truth of the Report.
"SAML. SMITH, Sherr. of Lancast. County."
"The Messenger met them on the road, & delivering the above paper, return'd with an account that they were about three Hundred men well armed with Carbines, Pistols, & Cutlasses, & soon after they sent the following answer :
"From John Hendricks in Baltimore County, Maryland.
"Having Received a Note from you as Sherrif of the County of Lancast. in the Province of Pennsylvania, signifying that the in- habitants of the said County are Informed that a Considerable Number of People of this Province are Come in a Hostile Manner
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to Conejohela to disturb the Peace of the Province of Pennsylvania, the truth of which report you Desire to know, I therefore acquaint you that the People of the Province of Maryland are not Come to disturb the Peace of the Province of Pennsylva. in any Manner whatsoever.
"WM. HAMMOND, Sherr. Balt. County. "Sept. ye 5th, 1736,
"To Mr. Saml. Smith, High Sherr. of Lancaster County."
"When the Sherrif & his forces had Left John Hendrick's on Sunday Evening to Return to Cresaps, Col. Edwd. Hall Came to Our People at John Wrights. Dureing his stay the following paper was drawn up & signed & delivered to him to take down to the Sherrif whom he followed that Evening:
" From John Wright's, Junr., in Lancast. County, Pennsylvania. " Gentlemen :
"By a Letter from us Directed to Mr. White, we thought our Reasons for adhering to the Government of Pennsylvania had been fully set forth, and we hoped it would have Given such Satisfaction that we should have met with no further Disturbance; but per- ceiving you are Come up with armed force, and that your Business is with us, we desire you would please to Comit what you have in Comand to writing, that we may better Consider thereof, and we shall return an answer with as much Expedition as the nature of the Case will admit. Signed for Our Selves & in behalf of as many of Our Neighbours as are here present.
" MICHEL TANNER, "HENRY LIPHART, "CHRISTN. CRAWL.
" Sept. the 5th, 1736.
"To Capt. Guest, or whom Elce it may Concern."
" To which they returned no answer.
" The Sherif of Baltimore, & some of the Officers, having ap- pointed to meet Our Sherif & Magistrates at John Wright's, on Monday at ten a Clock, to Confer with them (and the Dutch with whom they said their Business was), and not sending any Answer to the above paper, nor coming According to Appointment, the fol- low paper was sent to them at Cressap's, on monday about noon :
" From John Wright's, Junr., Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. "SR .:
"I received your Answer, Dated yesterday, from John Hen- drick's, whereby you acquaint me that the People of your Province
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are not come to disturb the peace of the Province of Pennsylvania in any Manner whatsoever. But notwithstanding what is there said, I am to Let you Know that coming & entering with force & arms, & in a warlike manner, with a Multitude of People upon the Lands & Plantations seated by, & in possession of His Majesty's Peace- able Subjects, of the Province of Pennsylvania, Is a a High Vio- lation of the Peace of Our Sovereign Lord the King. Neverthe- less, if you Have any thing to Offer in a Peaceable Manner, that may tend to settle the present Disturbances unhappily subsisting Between the inhabitants of the two Provinces, I am, with some of the Magistrates of the County, here ready to receive it. Otherwise I have it in Charge to Require you to Deliver up to me, Thomas Cressap, Daniel Low, John Low, & Edward Evans, as Incendiarys, Rioters, Authors, & Promoters of these troubles ; And to Command you, and Every Other of you, In His Majesty's Name, to Depart about your Lawfull Ocassions from amongst the Peaceable Inhabi- tants of this Government.
"SAM'L SMITH, Sher. Lancast. County. "Septr. the 6th, 1736.
"To Wm. Hammond, High Sherif of Baltimore County."
"To which they returned the following Answer :
"From Capt. Thomas Cressap's, Baltimore County, Maryland, Sept. 6th, 1736.
"SR .:
"I again assure you that the People of Baltimore County, within this Province, are not come to disturb the peace of the Inhabitants of Pennsylvania ; But to Assist & Support me in preserving his Lordship's Peace, & Our fellow Tenants, His Majesty's subjects, in their Possessions. And Inasmuch as we have not Attempted to Enter within the Bounds of the Province of Pennsylvania, there is no reason to Expect Our violating the Peace thereof, more Espe- cially since on your first Application to me I had declared the same, the veracity whereof you have so ungenerously questioned.
" Had I any thing to Offer to the Inhabitants of Pennsylvania, you might Depend it shod be done in a peacable manner. But as my call here is on my Lawfull Business, & in the Execution of my Duty, Desire you will Give me no further trouble.
" Your Demand to Surrender any of his Lordship's Tennants, In- habitants of this Province, having no Authority to Comply with, do disregard, and acquaint you that I will with the Utmost Resolu- tion Defend their persons whilst in my Bailiwick, strictly Charge & Require you & all others whatsoever Riotously met & assembled within this County Imediately to Disperse. Otherwise you may
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Expect I shal Discharge my Duty in Endeavoring to Bring such offenders to publick Justice.
"WM. HAMMOND, Sher. Balt. County.
" To Samuel Smith,
High Sherif of Lancaster County."
" After this no more papers past Between us, Except one from Michel Tanner for a pasport for himself & two of Our Company, whe should Come with him (they having sent word by his Wife they desired to see him) ; they sent him a pass, but refused it for the Other, so on Tuesday Morning he went alone to them, & overtook them about six miles Back from the River, as they were plundering the Dutch people's houses, by taking out at the Windows Cloth & what they Could meet with, under pretence of publick Dues. They also threatened to Burn their houses, but did not after Michel Tanner had talked with them & told the reason of their Revolt, and that they would rather quit their places then live under such treatment, they Promis them, if they would return, a Remis- sion of their Taxes til they were grown Better able to pay, & that they should be better used for the future, & Desired him to go with them to the Govr. or write to him, Both of which he refused. But he promised them to speak to his Country men if they would give him in writeing what favours they would Grant them, but they Refused, & said they would promise on Honor, and Michel Tanner telling them most of his Country men were Gone, he Could not Give them an answer in Less then two weeks; they agreed on that time & promised that none who sign'd the Letter sent to Mr. White should be molested in the Interim; But at the End thereof, if they did not Comply, the Govr. would Come up with a Greater number of arm'd men, turn them out of Doors, and Bring up Others with him, such as would be true to him, whom He would put into their possessions.
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