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NYWJ.736.021
18 Oct 1736:21 (154)
New York, October 18. We have an account from Philadelphia,
that on the 5th of this instant, a body of near three
hundred men in arms, in a warlike manner entred the county
of Lancaster, in that province, and with beat of drum and
sound of trumpet, advanced to the plantation of John
Hendricks, on the west side of the Sasquehannah, with
intent, as they say, to out by force several of his
Majesty's subjects, inhabitants of that county, of their
possessions, and to awe and terrify others into an
acknowledgment of the dominion and jurisdiction of the Lord
Proprietor of Maryland, over those parts of the county,
lying upwards of twenty miles to the northward of the east
and west line, which, by a solemn agreement, entred into,
say they, by the Hon. the Proprietaries of Pennsylvania, and
the Lord Proprietor of Maryland, now subsisting, and under
the cognizance of his Majesty's High Court of Chancery, was
fixed and established as the boundary of their respective
provinces. . . [9 more lines]
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