The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1878-05-25

more. This was also the case with some
of the settlers on Susquehanna Manor, as
we learn from the petition of Samuel Brce,
presented to the court on the 18th of June,
1929, in which he stated that "the sur
veyor of Chester county Isaac Taylor)
with others assisting him, came and sur
veyed close to his fence, SO as to render the
petitioners settlement altogether uncon-
venient for his use and greatly to his preju-
dice;'' and further that he was informed
that seven of his neighbors, whose names
he gives, "are, upon complying with
Pennsylvania survey and title, although
they have considerable time since complied
with and allowed themselves Inhabitants of
this county, all which your petitioner is
conscious, is not only an agrevance to
him, but to the public interest OF this gov
eminent and his Lordship's good rule, and
loudly calls for redress Whereupon the
court issued precept to the sheriff of Cecil
county, commanding him to take and bring
the body of Isaac Taylor and all other per-
sons concerned in the breach of the peace
mentioned in the said petition before the
court. SO the sheriff, as we learn from his
petition, which was presented to the court
in November of the same year, summoned
the posse cOmitatus and arrested Taylor, for
which he was allowed 240 pounds of to-
bacco. Taylor was imprisoned for con,
siderable time, as was also his friend Elisha
Gatchell, who, it was alleged by PENIS
adherents, was arrested while visiting Tay-
Tor, during his Imprisonment, on account
of the sympathy he showed him. Both of
these persons are believed to have been
residents of Nottingham. This difficulty,
which no doubt was made in retaliation for
the arrest of Matthias Van Bibber, who
shortly before had been arrested while sur
veying upon St. Augustine's Manor, aug
mented the ill-feeling between the adher-
ents of the two proprietors. In proof of
the moderation of the justices of the court
of Cecil county, its record shows that in
1920 tie sheriff was ordered to refund taxes
assessed upon some of the inhabitants of
New Munster to the amount of some thou
sand pounds Of tobacco, the said inhabitants
having made it appear that they had paid
tax to the authorities of Pennsylvania
Cresap was finally wounded in fight in
1876, taken prisoner and carried to Phia-
delphia. 1t is said when he arrived there
he astonished his captors by the audacity
he showed in telling them it was the larg-
est city in the province of Maryland.-
theoretically he was right, but, like many
other theorists, his views were not practi-
cal. The Governor of Maryland sent his
agent to Philadelphia to demand his re-
lease, which was not granted, and he or
dered reprisals to be made, and the diff
Guilty grew worse and was beginning to
assume serious proportion, when the King,
by an order in council in 1887, induced both
parties to desist, and temporary line near
where the present State line is located was
two years afterwards adopted, and the pris-
oners of both sides were released. Cresap
afterwards removed to the western part of
the State, where the Indians still roamed
the almost undisputed masters of the for
ests, and where he found congenial occu-
patton in the excitement of the chase.
QUILP.