Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1736. 101

have been empowered thereby and their Proceedings connived
at, has been a Treatment (as We are well informed) very dif-
ferent from that which the Tenants of your Government have
generally met with, which with many other cogent Reasons,
give Us good Cause to conclude the Governor and Magistrates
of that Province do not themselves believe Us to be settled
within the real Bounds of his Lordships Dominions, but we
have been seduced & made Use of, first by fair Promises, and
afterwards by Threats and Punishments to answer Purposes
which are at present unjustifiable, and will if pursued tend to
Utter Ruin
We therefore the Subscribers with many Others Our
Neighbours being become at last truly sensible of the Wrong
we have done the Proprietors of Pensilvania in settling on
their Lands without paying Obedience to their Government
do resolve to return to Our Duty and live under the Laws and
Government of Pensilvania, in which Province We believe Our
selves 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 and just Intention 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.

Michael Tanner Jacob Welshoffer Charles Jones Nicholas Baun
Henry Lib Hart Henry Hendricks Jacob Lawnius
Martin Schultz. Christian Growler Francis Worley jun^r
Tobias Fray Balthar Shambargier Jacob Seglaer his x mark
Martin Fray George Scobell Nicholas Birij Jacob Grable
Jacob Seglaer Philip Sanglaer Henry Stantz
Caspar Sanglaer Tobias Bright & al

His Excellency having communicated to this Board the
aforegoing most extraordinary and illegal Association and
Resolution, signed by several Persons who had at first been
settled in Baltimore County and for some years past held their
Lands under the Authority of this Governm^t and paid their
Taxes, of their being unanimous to withdraw their Obedience
from this Governm^t and to transferr it to that of Pensilvania,
which unwarrantable Proceedings and Behaviour of such Per-
sons, this Board having taken into Consideration, and having
good Reasons to be assured of such Persons being instigated
and countenanced therein by some who pretend to be Magis-
trates and Residents of Pensilvania, are of Opinion tend to the
Greatest Confusion, and may have the most mischievous Con-

Lib. M.