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So that early on Monday Morning we could only find John Shell-
man's Waggon and a Guard was set over his Stable Door We after-
wards met with George Purgetts Waggon in Town and at his request
it was sent to Jos. Hardman that care might be taken of his Horses.
That morning Shellman pulled his Waggon to pieces and in the night
pulled down some Failing behind his Stable and carried off the
horses. George Purgett also fell on methods with the Assistance
of the Towns People to carry off his Waggon and Horses.
A party under a Serjeant had gone over Manococy with the Press
Master and they brought in two waggons tho' they had pressed seven
or eight more, but they left them on the positive promise of the
Owners to bring them to Town next day by twelve, but the people
were so averse to the Service that one of the Waggoners belonging
to the two they brought in cut out out his horses in the middle oi
Manococy River and rid off with them tho a Soldier in the waggons
(as I afterwards learnt) had fired with a design to frighten him
from cutting out his horses so they came in with two Waggons and
only two Horses to each.
But before these two Waggons were brought in, some of the
leading Dutch, Shellman, Bruner and others agreed to get the farm-
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Dec. 7
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ers together and that they should furnish the Quantity wanted and
they seemed pretty well satisfied as George Ross had given under
his hand to pay for the Carriage as soon as the Service was done.
That night Col.o Cresap came to town but I did not see him till
the Morning. He came to me which soon drew several people about
us. He insisted that he could see no Reason for pressing waggons
for there was an Act of Assembly for carrying the Waggons out of
the Province, that they ought to make Roads on the Maryland side
and that the waggons could cross over at the Mouth of Siddling
Hill, but the Gut beyond Town Creek would be frozen up and that
they could not pass, that the Articles of War directed they should
receive part of their pay down, and be paid every night and that
they could not by the Articles of War be pressed for more thar
one days Journey, I asked him how we were to be Supplied with
Waggons in the back Country after the first days Journey, he said
they might be again pressed. He said the people had been very [1]
used for what they had done, they had gone to the Agents for pay,
they had sent them to the Assembly and that they had sent them tc
the Governor; and they had yet got no Satisfaction, that the Com-
missary ought to have paid them and if it was left to the Assembly
they would not be paid for what they had done, or might do, perhaps
this Seven years, as there was no certainty when the Journal would
pass many more things of this sort passed from the Col.o which the
People greedily listened to, and which it was in vain for me to attempt
answering, I only asked how it was possible for me to obey my Orders
to supply Fort Cumberland, he said they could go with Horses and
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