His Excellency is pleased to lay before this Board the fol-
lowing petition.

To his Excellency Horatio Sharpe Esq. Governor of Mary-
land.

The Petition of Col: Thomas Cresap of Frederick County.
Humbly sheweth

That in the year seventeen hundred and fifty six your
Petitioner was obliged thro' Fear of the Indians to leave his
dwelling Plantation in Frederick County at a place called
the old Town about fourteen Miles to the Southward of Fort
Cumberland that your Petitioner not being able to remove
his Effects from his said House at the Time he was obliged
to depart from it left in his dwelling House and Store house
locked up and secured in the best manner he was able about
one thousand Weight of Wheat Flour, five Bushels of Salt
one Hogshead of Rum, about one thousand pounds of brown
Sugar, about five Gallons of Melasses in a Stone Bottle,
about one thousand Pounds of bar Lead, about sixty thou-
sand Nails, a Cask of China Ware a Cask of Glass Ware,
about two Dozen frying Pans, Carpenters Tools, Smith Tools
Brass Kettles, and Plantation Utensils, and some Household
Furniture as by an Affidavit made by your petitioner here-
unto annexed may appear, the most valuable Part of which
Effects your Petitioner buried in a Cellar of his House to
prevent the same from being discovered by the Indians in
Case they should break and enter his House, your Petitioner
further sheweth that since his leaving his said House and
Plantation Henry Enocks the elder and Henry Enocks the
younger, Jacob Lane, and William Lockhart all of Frederick