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saith that on the Fifteenth day of August last past Francis
Baker Jeremiah Baker, Stephen Porter Robert Porter James
M^cCalease, and two other Persons unknown to him came
to this the said Reynolds' House and the said Francis Baker
Demanded the Estate of Joseph Bass of him the said Reyn-
olds upon which the said Reynolds asked him by what Au-
thority he did it and he the said Baker Answered him that
he had Letters of Administration upon which Reynolds
asked him if he had any Letters but what his Father had
to which Baker answered he had not on which Reynolds told
him he thought the Letters died with his Father but said he
would give him the same offer he gave his Father give him two
Freeholders in Pennsylvania and two Freeholders in Mary-
land and he would give him up the Estate upon which Baker
told him he would not give him Security but he would have the
Estate upon which said Reynolds told him not to come as
Bob Porter did then Baker went out of the House and jump't
on his Horse and took his handkerchief out and held it up
and said Huzza Boys come and take the Negroes away with
that Robert Porter Jeremiah Baker James M^cCalease and
Stephen Porter went into the Kitchen the Door then being
Latched on which Reynolds came out of the House and com-
manded them to come out that they had no business with any
thing there and as he was going to the Kitchen he picked up a
Stick and went to the Door in the Kitchen upon which two
Persons unknown to him Struck at him on which he the said
Reynolds turned about and at the Corner of the House he saw
Francis Baker pick up a long handle Hoe and came running

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towards him upon which Reynolds met him and the said Baker
Struck him with said Hoe and Cut him in ten different places
and while they were ingaged Stephen Porter went into the
Loft and brought down a Negro Child about two years old
and carried it off. And that Robert Porter and Jeremiah
Baker both came and Struck him divers Strokes and then they,
and all the rest went off. And the said Deponent further
declareth that on the Nineteenth day of the said Month of
August at Night on the said Reynolds hearing a Noise he got
up and saw a Man laying upon a Log, sometime after hearing
a Noise again he lifted up the sash and saw five Persons, to
wit Francis Baker Jeremiah Baker Stephen Porter and Robert
Porter and John Cavanah coming out of the Cellar of the said
Reynolds' House with four Loaves of Bread the property of
said Reynolds and that one had been eat in the Cellar except a
small matter and that the said Persons had no Hatts on but all
with Handkerchiefs tied round their Heads over the foreheads.
After sometime Reynolds opened the Door to see if there
were any more than them which came out of the Cellar and the

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