Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1732. 19

The Right Honourable the Lord Proprietary lays before
this Board the following Depositions
John Lowe aged about forty Years of Baltimore County
Planter being Sworn on the Holy Evangelists of Almighty
God deposeth and saith that on the twenty sixth Day of
November last past about the dead time of the Night He this
Deponent being asleep with his Wife and Children in Bed
was awakened by a Noise and Crying out of People saying;
Run to this Door, Run to that Door, whereupon this Depo-
nent arose & sat up in his Bed and asked what was the
Matter? Thereupon two men came to this Deponents Bed side,
and One of them (whose name is James Pattison) drew a Pistol
from his Side, and the other Person (whom this Deponent
afterwards perceived to be a Constable ol Lancashire County in
Pensylvania) clapt his Hand upon this Deponent and said, that
you (This Deponent meaning) are my Prisoner (The Prisoner
of him the said Constable meaning) whereupon this Deponent
got out of Bed and put on his Cloaths and went to the Chimney
and after this Deponent had put on his Cloaths This Depo-
nent told them That We (the Marylanders meaning) had got
Officers and Commissioners in our Province and County (the
Province of Maryland and County of Baltimore meaning) To
which James Pattison af^d made answer, You need not talk of

your Province for I vwill try the Country by the Strength of

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Men; and the said Pattison also told this Depon^t that he this
Deponent must go with them. This Deponent then said that
he would not go with them, then the Person af^d who was
the Constable laid hold of this Deponent, and this Depo-
nent shoved the Constable from him, upon this near six Men
fell upon this Deponent and got this Deponent down upon
the Floor, and One of them took & held his Gun up and said
Damn him for an Old Son of a Bitch I will kill him; then they
violently hailed this Deponent out of the Doors of his own
house and when they had got this Deponent out of Doors they
dragged this Deponent on the Ground near fifteen or twenty
Yards and pulled off one of this Deponents Shoes Hat and
Cap and almost throttled this Deponent, and then taking hold
of this Deponent, they forced this Deponent to go over
Susquehannah River on the Ice, this Deponent having only
One Shoe on and without Hat or Cap and when they had got
this Deponent over Susquehannah they kept him in Custody
the remaining Part of the Night and the next morning carried
this Deponent before Samuel Blunston and John Wright
(who this Deponent was informed were Justices of Lancaster
County) That the said Blunston and Wright they read over
to this Deponent an Affidavit or Information which contained
(to the best of this Deponents Knowledge) That One of this

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