A new article has been added at Newspaper Abstracts > United States > Pennsylvania > Lancaster http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/index.php?action=displaycat&catid=1726 Direct link to article: http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/link.php?id=53476 Submitted by: Gigimo Article Title: The Boston Weekly News-Letter Article Date: October 28 1736 Article Description: Boundary Conflict Between Maryland and Pennsylvania. The Plantation of John HENDRICKS Invaded. Article Text: 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 entered 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 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 entered into, say they, by the Hon. the Prorietaries 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. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ PA-Old-News ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ NewspaperAbstracts.com - Finding our ancestors in the news! TM http://www.NewspaperAbstracts.com Also visit our other sites: http://www.AncestorsOnTheWeb.com http://www.Genealogy101.com http://www.AutumnWindz.com