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or I will tell you what is the matter To which this Deponent
said if any thing is Amiss go a Shore for there is no Occasion
to hall Men away in the Night, To which he said he would
not have his Creatures killed, But that he would make this
Deponent and the said Lowe know That they were in the
Province of Pensylvania And this Depon^t further saith That
upon Conversation with the Inhabitants of the East side of
Susquehanah River and Especially with the said James Patti-
son He this Deponent hath said That if the Lord Baltimore
would not Protect them in their Rights and Land. They the
Inhabitants on the West side of Susquehanah River must
apply to the King To which they and Particularly the said
Pattison have Answered That they have no Business with the
King nor the King with them for Penn was their King And
this Deponent further Saith That he is very much in fear that
his House and other parts of his Property will be some Time
or another Burnt or Destroyed by the Inhabitants on the
Eastern Side of the said Susquehanah River And for Cause
of this Deponents fear This Depon' hath heard both from
White persons and Indians that the said Inhabitants have
offered to Hire such White men and Indians to Accomplish
the same
Thomas Cresap
Sworne this 13^th December 1732 before me
Robert Gordon

The aforegoing Depositions being read Ordered that the
following Proclamation Issue One Directed to the Sherriff of
Baltimore County and another to the Sherriff of Cecil County

By the Right Honourable the Lord Proprietary Baltemore.
A Proclamation

Whereas Informations upon Oath have been given to Rob-
ert Gordon Esq^r one of the Justices of our Provincial Court
that on the Twenty Sixth day of November last in the Dead
time of the Night That Charles Jones, James Pattison, Alex-
ander Mckey, John Capper, John Hart, John Pattan, James
Pattan, James Pattison Jun^r John Trotter and William Macma-
nac being or pretending to be Inhabitants of Pensylvania
together with Several other Persons unknown in a Riotous
manner Armed with Offensive and Defensive Weapons As-
sembled themselves together on the Plantation of John Lowe
of Baltimore County within this our Province And in a
Riotous Violent and Outrageous manner Assaulted and

Lib. M.

Beat the said Lowe his Wife and Children and Imprisoned the
said John Lowe and his two Sons to their great Terror and

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