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ing, (such as had never been seen by many Persons before)
some, who had Resolution enough to speak in favour of your
Remonstrant, were threatned to be duckt in a Mill Pond, or
dragged through a Fire alighted for the use of a sick Vestry
Man in the Church yard; That M^r White was really seized to
be thrown into the Mill Pond, That your Remonstrant was
there severely threatned, should he dare to appear again, and
two hundred Men agreed, by the Encouragement of the Lead-
ers, to oppose him should he attempt to Preach at Dividing
Creek Chappel as he intended when he should return, that the
Churches were then better secured against the Ministers En-
trance, with threats to shoot him down should he attempt to
open them.
That your Remonstrant, informed of these proceedings by
Letters, repaired to his Parish and found the Intelligence he
had received confirmed by the most reputable People, who
had it from some sober well disposed Persons then and there
present, that, having an Opportunity of a Passage to An-
napolis with two Gentlemen, he set out there for Advice.
That, on the day he parted from Annamassick, all the Vestry
Men and the Church Wardens in Arms, (to the Terror of
some Honest Men and Familys,) with Swamp Men and
Shingle Makers, and the rest of their Banditti, which they had
been collecting for two days and Nights, appeared one time at
Rahoboth, and again at Annamassick, to oppose his Entrance
into either Church.
That, at Annapolis, your Remonstrant had the Happiness
to meet with a Gentleman well acquainted in the former dis-
putes of that Parish, of transcendant Abilities, and Superior
knowledge in the Law, who from a benevolent disposition to
promote Peace and Tranquility, gratuitously condescended to
state the nature of the former disputes, to lay my Lord Pro-
prietor's Rights and their own Laws clearly before them, a
true and exact Copy of which, compared before Witness, your
Remonstrant sent to M^r Allen, and, after five Weeks, received
the Letter that goes with this Remonstrance, in which they
avow their design of opposing force by force.
That Madam Henry, Planner Williams Esq^rs Thomas
Williams, Cap^t Horsey, Benjamin Langford &c. have been
threatned with having their Houses torn down, and their
Effects destroyed, for admitting your Remonstrant into their
Houses; That, on the Road to his Duty, shots were fired from
a certain House, and the Cause of it boasted of, this, and the
Report of a Thousand Men to pull down the House of one M^r
Cullen, where your Remonstrant was to preach, was indus-
triously propagated by their Emmisaries, to frighten him out

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