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acres in Severalty under Certain Metes and Bounds and
Your Petitioner further humbly Sheweth that the aforesaid
Thomas Gassaway had leased the said Parcell of Land to one
Augustus Brown who in Virtue of the said Lease possessed
the same, that one Hugh Ross agreeing with the said Thomas
for the purchase thereof he the said Thomas removed the
said Augustus Brown and gave Possession of the said Prem-
ises to the said Hugh Ross and the said Hugh Continued
under the aforesaid Act of Thomas Gassaway untill your
Petitioner became intitled to the Premises as af and the said
Hugh not having paid one farthing of the Money he was to
have paid upon the agreement afd your Petitioner let him
know that he expected that he would deliver up possession or
make a purchase thereof Whereupon the said Hugh agreed
again with your Petitioner for the Purchase of the said
Land but he not complying with the Agreement, and your
Petitioner apprehending from his Evasive Conduct that he
intended to Trifle with your Petitioner your Petitioner gave
publick Notice that he would Sell the Land to the highest
bidder and in order to Defeat your Petitioners said Purpose
& to deprive him of any use of the Premises the said Hugh
Ross sometime this Spring Applyed for a Warrant and has
Actually taken up the said Land under the Government of
Pensilvania and in Virtue thereof Claims it as his Right and
your Petitioner further Sheweth that your Petitioner has
demanded Possession of the said Hugh Ross and threatened
to Sue him for detaining the same but your Petitioner has
been deterred from so doing by the said Hugh his threatning
that he would Treat your Petitioner as Dudley Digges was
treated and your Petitioner being apprehensive that some
Violence wou'd be offered to any Person who should Attempt
to Arrest the said Hugh Ross or to your Petitioner if he
should Attempt to regain Possession of the said Land by an
Entry, Has therefore thought it his duty humbly to Repre-
sent his Case to your Excellency and to Supplicate your Pro-
tection, and Hopes your Excellency will take the Premises
into your Consideration and give your Petitioner such Relief
therein as may be meet and Suitable to the Nature of his
Case
And your Petitioner pray &c William Keene
The aforegoing Petition being Read Ordered that the Peti-
tioner make Affidavit before some Provincial Magistrate of
the facts contained in the said Petition being True, and that
he Return the said Affidavit to the Clerk of this Board who
is hereby Ordered upon Return thereof to desire the said
Provincial Magistrate to issue his Warrant for apprehending
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