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Title: Some facts concerning York and York County : a sesqui-centennial memento
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Hawkins, Charles Augustine, 1859- Landis, Houston E
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Publisher: York, PA. : (Press of York daily
Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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ouse, a staunchly built g2 York and structure, as its remaining supports fully at-test, whence they sallied forth as it suitedthem and attacked the farmers, broke opentheir doors with axes, arrested them, and infact subjected them to all kinds of annoyancedesigned to secure plunder and drive themfrom the country or into submission to Mary-land authority. Samuel Blunston, in a letterwritten at the time, related that six men wereengaged in preparing a grave for a childwhen they were attacked by Higginbothamand his men and carried oflf to AnnapoHs andthat this event so terrified the rest that theyhad all left their homes and gone across theriver, leaving none on the west side but thewomen and children except Joshua Minshalland John Wright, Jr., and at the house of thelatter they were keeping a garrison. Min-shall was attacked in his bed and was carriedofif a prisoner, A force under the Lancastercounty sheriff was sent to oppose the mau-rauders, but, it seems, with no considerableresults.
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York County 95 Throughout these border troubles one can-not but feel that the Pennsylvanians soughtto be fair. The Marylanders, to say theleast, threw themselves open to suspicion ofseeking to worry a sect of people whoseprinciples and practices had been opposed towar and bloodshed. Time and again thegovernor and counsel of Pennsylvaniasought to secure from the Maryland govern-or a temporary adjustment of the boundaryquestion pending the termination of the suitin England. They were as often met withprotestations of like desires to end the trou-bles, but some excuse was always found fornot agreeing to anything. Finally the distressing state of airairshaving been presented to the king, a royalorder, assented to by both parties to the con-troversy, was promulgated in 1738, directingthat pending a final determination of the lo-cation of the boundary line, those occupyinglands in the disputed territory should con-tinue to recognize the jurisdiction which they g6 York and previously acknowl

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