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Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my Hand and Seal
of the County aforesaid.
H. H. Graham Clerk.

Chester County ss :
The Grand Inquest for Our Sovereign Lord the King who
now is for the Body of Chester County upon their Oath and
Affirmation respectively do present that Andrew Crawford
late of Chester County Labourer the fourth day of May in
the Year of Our Lord One Thousand seven hundred and
Sixty eight at the County aforesaid and within the Jurisdic-
tion of this Court with Force and Arms &c. in and upon Sam-
uel Kennedy in the Peace of God and of Our said Lord the
King then and there being an Assault did make and him the
said Samuel then and there did beat wound and evilly treat
and other Harms to him the said Samuel then and there did to
the great Damage of him the said Samuel and against the
Peace of Our said Lord the King his Crown and Dignity &c.
Benjamin Chew Att^y Gen^l
Test Endorsed, A true Bill
Samuel Kennedy John Kennedy W^m Peters Jⁿ
Elisha Price Esq^r Abrm. Emmett sworn in Court.

Lib. C. B.
No. 20

Chester County ss. I do hereby Certifie that the foregoing is
a true Copy of the Original remaining in the Office of the Clerk
of the Peace for the said County of Chester taken from and
compared therewith this thirty first day of January Anno
Domini 1769. In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my
Hand and the Seal of the County aforesaid.
H. H. Graham, Clerk.

The Deposition of John Jack.
Personally appeared before me William Allen Chief Justice
John Jack of London Brittan Chester County Miller and on
his Solemn Oath on the Holy Evangils of Almighty God de-
clares and says that on or about the last day of August Anno
Domini 1768. Mark Alexander come to the said John Jack on
his own Plantation and threatened to split the Scull of the
said John Jack. That about the 7^th of September Anno Do-
mini 1768. Sterrit Gray, Thomas Gray, John Alexander and
Benjamin Mason come to the House of John Jack beat and
abused him the said John his Wife and two Daughters.
And about the 7^th of January 1769. Mark Alexander John
Alexander, George Wafer William Dickson Matthew Lang-
well and Thomas Gray came to the Mill of John Jack with
Clubbs and other unlawful Weapons and after threatning the

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