Judges, for apprehending several Persons concerned in this unlawfull Association, particularly one Henry Munday, who, from the Information given, appeared to be one of the principal Persons in conducting it, & that such Care & Diligence had been used in executing the said Warrant, that Munday was taken at his House that very day, when he expected a Rendezvous of the Party, & had sundry Papers relating to the Conspiracy lying before him, & several Letters to Persons in Maryland on this subject just finished and ready to be forwarded, all which were, with himself, secured; and one Edward Leet, another of the Persons embargued with him in this Design, being likewise apprehended, they were brought to Town in Custody, & are now under Confinement; but that one Charles Higginbotham, a principal Person in the said Design, had escaped; That as this Matter highly concerns the Peace of this Province & the safety of its Inhabitants, the Board is called together to take the whole into their Consideration, & if they think fitt to examine Munday & Leet, from whose Examinations same further Discoveries may probably be made.

Then were laid before the Board the several Papers which were found with Munday on his being apprehended, to witt:

An Application to him signed by thirty one Persons, in these Words:

"Mr. Henry Munday:

"SIR:-We, the underneath subscribers, being informed that there is some vacant Land & Plantations near Sasquehannah river that were settled by some Dutch Familes, and that the said Land were by them located by Warrants issuing from the Land Office in the Province of Maryland, as of the right & property of the Lord Baltimore; and that since the said Dutch Families hath disclaimed the Right & Property of the said Lord Baltimore, and hath taken Umbrage under the Proprietarys Penns; That we are informed that the absolute Fee & Right to the said Land is within the Limits & Bounds of the Lord Baltimore's Patent or Charter; That the Lord's chief Agent hath, & doth give Encouragement for the resetling the said vacant Plantations & Land. We therefore pray & request, that you will in our behalf & stead interceed with the Governor and Agent to settle us in such vacant Land or plantations, and we shall all be willing to pay such Fee or Rent charge as his Lordship usually demands, and we shall with our Lives & Fortunes. defend the same, and be subject to the Laws of his Province, & defend his right, for which service Sr we shall be all your very much oblidged.

"Thomas Charlton,

"John Charlton,
"Edward Charlton,

"John Charlton, Jur.,

"Willm. Limis,
"John Limis,
"John Coates,
"Robert Jessop,

A list of the Names of several Persons, ranged in three Columns, with a Certificate signed by Gov" Ogle, that he had given Instructions to the Deputy Surveyor for laying out two hundred Acres of Land to each, which Names & Certificate are as follows:

"Whereas, Application hath been made to me by Henry Munday, Edw Leet, & Charles Higginbotham, & forty nine Persons by them mentioned, I have given Instructions to Thomas White, Dep Surveyor, to lay out, and in the names of the said Persons, two hundred acres for each Person.

SAM. OGLE."

A Letter from Henry Munday, Maryland, to the Rever Mr. Jacob Henderson, in these Words:

"Reverend Sir:

"I wrote to you from Annapolis (which freedom I hope you'l

please to excuse with the freedom of this) concerning settling some Persons, Inhabitants here, on vacant Plantations near Susquehannah. I met with a disappointment in securing a preference or first Choice for them as I proposed, occasioned by the cinister Ends & Practice of two Persons, who made head of a separate Party against me, Notwithstanding I first apprized them of the Design, & they promised me to come in as Copartners. It is agreed that both Parties take their chance by Lotts drawn. The Names of the Persons are ranged in three Columns as directed to the Surveyor, the third column is filled up with the Names Tho. Charlton, John Charlton, Edward Charlton, John Charlton, Junr., Tho. Charlton, Junr., Arthur Charlton, Henry Charlton, Junr., Richd. Sedgwick, William Betty, William Betty, Junr., William Webb; That there is some Persons in the first column whose Character is not so good as could be desired by those now recited, which are Persons I presume well known to you, who hath a Relyance on your Friendship in this Affair, As you being the first that projected the settling the said Lands & Plantations, may have such Influence on the Govern" notwithstanding the Directions given for those that did apply to appear at the Place to take Possessions of their several Lotts by the last of this Month. Mr. Henry Charlton had the misfortune to break his Legg, the Journey of your Kinsmen to Virginia, & other Lets & Hinderances of those Persons that beggs & requests your care in using such measures that they may not be precluded or foreclosed from the benefit of the Governor's Grant, notwithstanding they do not appear to draw their Lotts at the time proposed. Your assistance in this will not only oblige those Gentlemen (in whose favour I take the freedom in giving so much trouble) but me, who am,

"Sir,

"Your most obliged humble Servant,
"HENRY MUNDAY.

"London Grove, ye 14th of November, 1736."

A Paper addressed to Mess" Betties in these Words:

"Mess

Betties:

"November y 14th, 1736.

"If Instructions can be sent to Cap Crissop to return so many of the Names of the vacant Plantations, reserving eleven of the best, which is the Number of the third Column, Then every Person that appears to draw hath his equal Chance.

"Captain Crissop send to the Parties to come to draw their Lotts by next Saturday."

Several scrolls of Letters being likewise taken with the foregoing Papers, a Copy of the above Letter to Mr. Henderson was found amongst them.

The Board continued the whole under Consideration till to-morrow morning at ten a clock, to which time the Examinations of Munday & Leet are likewise thought proper to be deferred, Munday having voluntarily offered to a Member of this Board to make a full Declaration under his hand of all that he knew of the affair.

At a Council held at Philadia., November 24th, 1736.

PRESENT:

The Honble JAMES LOGAN, Esqr., President.

Samuel Preston,

Anthony Palmer,
Thomas Laurence,

Ralph Assheton,
Thomas Griffitts, Esqrs.

The Minute of yesterday's Council being read, the Board resumed the Consideration of the Matters then laid before them, & Henry Munday having delivered to a Member of this Board the Declaration he had promised to make of his Knowledge in the Affair, the same was laid before the Board & read, but being unsatisfactory, the Board resolved to examine him on Interogatories, in drawing up of which a considerable time being spent, the Council adjourned to the afternoon.

EODEM DIE, P. M.

PRESENT:

The President and the same Members as in the forenoon.

The Board thinking it proper that Edward Leet should be examined before Henry Munday, Leet was sent for, whose Examination was taken in these Words:

"Edward Leet of the township of Marlborough, in the County of Chester, Yeoman, aged about Seventy-one years, being examined before the Honble the President & Council of Pennsylva., saith:

"That about a month since Henry Munday came to his, Examinant's house, & brought with him a Petition signed by several Persons in the Neighbourhood for some Land, & asked this Examinant's Opinion of the Petition, & whether he would joyn in it; that the Examinant declining to sign it Munday left him; That some few days after Charles Higginbotham came to this Examinant, & acquainting him there were some Lands to be laid out in Maryland, asked this Examinant whether he would not goe with him to Annapolis, & this Examinant wanting not only to take up some Lands for himself but for eight of his Cousins, agreed to accompany Higginbotham, & accordingly they, with John Smith, John Henthorn, Hugh Kaine, John Kaine, & James Nicholson, sett out for

Maryland, but instead of taking the direct way to Annapolis, they went as high up on the East side of Sasquehannah as the Ferry late of John Emmerson, deceased, over against Thomas Cressap's house on the West, & crossing the River there went to Cressap's house, near to which they understood those Lands lay which the Governor of Maryland intended to dispose of; That Cressap being from home his Wife made some difficulty of admitting them into his House, & enquired whether they were friends, & on what design they were come, & they telling her they were come to look out for some Land they were admitted, & lay at that House all night; That next morning their Company took a view of the Lands in the Neighbourhood of Cressap's House, & five of them, accompanied by one Lowe, a Relation of Cressap's, went to view the Lands lying further up Sasquehanna, where those Dutch People were setled who were said to have revolted from Maryland, while this Examinant & Higgenbotham viewed some Lands lying back or to Westward of Cressap's; that afterwards pursuing their Journey they came to Annapolis on Saturday the thirtieth day of October last, where meeting with Thomas Cressap, at whose House they had been, he offered to go with them to Governor Ogle, & accordingly being introduced by Cressap, they waited in the evening on the Governor, & acquainted him they were come to treat with him about some Lands on Sasquehannah, & having entred into discourse with Governor Ogle on the Subject, he told them he intended to dispossess the Dutch who were settled there, and for that End he was sending up arms, & would very soon give the necessary Orders to the Sherif; that he, the said Governor, would put this Examinant & the others who applied to him in possession of two hundred acres of Land each, & defend them therein; and some Mention being made of Difficulties which might probably happen in turning off the Dutch, the Governor named two Persons of Pennsylvania, whose Names this Examinant does not distinctly remember, but believes they were Blumston & Wright, for apprehending of whom he, the said Governor, offered a Reward of one hundred pounds for one of them, & Fifty pounds for the other; that Higginbotham hereupon told the Governor he knew one of them, & made no doubt but he could find means to gett him apprehended, and the Governor having appointed this Examinant & Higginbotham to attend him next Monday, they left him and went to their Lodgings, where they understood from Thomas Cressap that he had come to Annapolis to receive, & actually had received on board a Sloop a considerable Quantity of fire arms, Powder, & Ball, which were to be carried into Baltimore County to be used in dispossessing those Dutch People who had revolted from Maryland; that three Drums & two Trumpets were sent by Land by certain Dutch Men who were then there; That Henry Munday coming to Annapolis & attending Governor Ogle with them on Monday the first instant, he, the said Henry Munday, presented a Paper to the Governor, sign'd by several Persons for those Lands on Sasquehannah, & appeared to be much dissatisfied with Higginbotham for being before