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about a Mile from the house of this Depon' that Two of them
came into this Dep^ts house, and that One of them whose name
is Dunbarr, endeavoured to perswade this Deponents husband
to turn Tenant to Pensilvania saying, that Esquire Penn was
as able and full as willing to stand by them, as the Lord
Baltimore ever had been or would be, and upon this Depo-
nents husbands Refusal, he the said Dunbarr asked him if he
would sell the Land he held by Patent, under the Lord
Baltimore which as this Deponent hath often heard is the
Way, that the Pensilvanians propose to get Possession of the
Lands in those Parts now held by the Lord Baltimore in Case
they cant drive the Possessors of the said Land off by force
Elizabeth Low
Sworn the 20^th of October 1736 before
B: Young.

By the honourable the President and Council of the
Province of Pensilvania

A Proclamation

Whereas we have received certain Information, that a Body
of near three hundred Men in Arms, in a warlike manner en-
tered the County of Lancaster in this Province, and on Sunday
the fifth Instant, with beat of Drum, and Sound of Trumpet,
advanced to the Plantation late of John Hendricks on the
West Side of Susquehannah, lying several Miles more North-
erly than the City of Philadelphia, with Intent, as 'tis said, to
oust by Force several of his Majestys Subjects Inhabitants of
that County, of their Possessions, and to awe and terrify
Others into an Acknowledgm^t of the Dominion and Jurisdic-
tion of the Lord Proprietor of Maryland, over those Parts of the
Country, lying upwards of Twenty Miles to the Northward of
the East and West Line, which, by a solemn Agreement enter-
ed into by the honourable the Propietaries of Pensilvania and
the said Lord Proprietor of Maryland, now subsisting, and un-
der the Cognizance of his Majestys high Court of Chancery,
was fixed and established as the Boundary of their respective
Provinces: Which military Preparation and Invasion hath by
the Conduct and Resolution of Our Inhabitants on this Occa-
sion, been happily frustrated, And whereas these extraordinary
Proceedings, in spreading Uneasiness and Terror amonst the
Inhabitants, and thereby hindering them from the Pursuit of
their lawful Business and Occupations, are not only altogether
unjustifiable between the Subjects of the same Gracious Sover-
eign, whose diffusive Goodness and Care for their Welfare &
Security equally extend to all, but must undoubtedly be con-
strued a Levying of War against his Subjects of this Province,

Lib. M.