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possession of a piece of Land in Lancaster County in the Province
of Pensilvania iformerly surveyed under the Proprietaries of the
said Province) To persuade some Innocent German People Lately
Come into Pensilvania who were Ignorant of our Language and
Constitution to take possession of those lands and Acknowledge the
Jurisdiction of the Lord Baltemore Assuring them at the same time
of being free from Taxes and that they Should have protection from
the Government of Maryland the said Cresap then proceeded with
armed force to Seize and Hurrey to Prisons in Maryland Several of
our Inhabitants who were Seated upon Lands above Twenty Miles
within the Province of Pensilvania as well from those Boundaries
set by Charles Lord Baltemore above fifty years since as from the
Bounds agreed on by his present Lordship in the Year 1732 and the
Better to Carry on the Designs of Maryland the Deputy Governour
of the said Province vested the Said Cressap with the powers of
a Civil Magistrate and Dignified him with a Military Commission
furnishing him with a Large Quantity of fire Arms and Ammunition
whereupon he became Exceedingly Insolent and Oppressive to the
Peaceable Inhabitants of that part of the Country, to put a Stop to
which proceedings the Deputy Governour of Pensilvania with the
Advice of his Council Sent persons to the Deputy Governour of
Maryland fully Authorized to Consert Measures for preserving
peace and good Neighbourhood between the two Provinces by agree-
ing upon Some bounds to Limit their Jurisdiction without Prejudice
to the right of Either of the Proprietors untill the Differences should
be absolutely Settled Either between themselves or by Due Course
of Law but so far was the Deputy Governour of Maryland from
Entring into any Such Pacifick Measures that the People of Pensil-
vania then in Prison were prosecuted upon Information preferred
against them in the Courts of Maryland as having Intruded upon
the Lord Baltemore Lands (and as they Call it) against his Lord-
ships peace good rule and Government and Heavy fines laid on them,
on pretence that they would not own the Authority of the Said Lord
Baltemore and a Surveyor Guarded by Cressap with a Number of
Armed men Came up into the Heart of Lancaster County to Survey
Lands which had long before been Surveyed and Some of them
Seated in right of the Proprietarys of Pensilvania and the Lord
Baltemore and his Deputy Governour Still Continuing not only to
Disregard all propositions for Avoiding these Differences and En-
deavouring by all means to make void the Said Articles of Agree-
ment our Proprietarys found themselves Obliged in the year 1735
to Exhibit their Bill of Complaint in the High Court of Chancery of
Great Britain against the said Lord Baltimore wherein they have Set
forth their right to the Lands in Question between them and Said
Lord Baltimore which he had in a Solemn Manner Released to him
by the said Agreement made in the year 1732 and have prayed the
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L. H. J.
Lib. No. 45
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