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Petitions of the Inhabitants of Westmoreland and Ohio Counties
      "The people of the border counties assembled and  petitioned Governor
John PENN, setting forth "that there was great reason to apprehend that the
country would again be immediately involved in all the horrors of an Indian
war; that their  circumstances, at that critical time, were truly alarming;
deserted by the greater part of our neighbors and fellow-subjects,
unprotected with places of strength to resort to with ammunition, provisions,
and with almost every other necessary store.
      Our houses abandoned to pillage; labor and industry entirely at a
stand; our crops destroyed by cattle; our flocks dispersed; the minds of our
people distracted with the terrors of falling, along with the helpless and
unprotected families, the immediate victims of savage barbarity. 
      In the midst of these scenes of desolation and ruin, next to the
Almighty, we look to your Honor, hoping, from your known benevolence and
humanity, such protection and relief as your Honor shall see meet."
      A number of petitions of this kind were signed and sent to Governor
Penn, one dated 1774, Fort Shippen, at Captain John PROCTOR's.

Signed by Lot DARLING, Andrew WOOLF, George HELBINGBAR, 
Samuel SLOAN, William CALDWELL, Robert ROULSTON, William ALLISON, 
William COERTNY, John PATRICK, Benjamin COCHRAN, David MAXWILL, 
Wm. HUGHS, Elias PETTET, James GAMMEL, James FORSYTH, Robert TAYLOR, John
LESLIE, William ANDERSON, Joseph CAMPBELL, John McKEE, George MOORE, William
PERRY, Charles  MITCHELL, James WALLACE, John SCOTT, Knight SCOTT, Robert
STEVENSON, Andrew ALLISON, John COX, William MICHEL, Joseph MAN, George
HENRY, James CAMPBELL, Josias CAMPBELL, Paul WAG, John LAM, Joseph SAPHUT,
Isaac PARR, John MOORE, Robert
BEISLEIN, John LYDICK, Philip COUZE, William McCALL, George SMIELE, Ferguson MOORHEAD,
Richard JARVIS, David KILLGOUR, John PROCTOR, Samuel MOORHEAD, William
LOCHRY, James HAMILTON, Arthur HARVEY, Patrick ARCHBOLD, William MOUNT, John
DAVIS, John HARRY, John PUGAN, Robert MARSHALL, John CAMPBELL, Henry ZANE,
Robert CALDWELL, George LEASURE, James STEVENSON, Thomas STEVENSON, Robert
COCHRAN, John TAYLOR, William SLONE, William MARTIN, Robert CALDWELL, Andrew
MITCHELL, David SLOAN, James FULTON, Francis McGINNIE, James CARNAHAN,
William THOMPSON, Allen SLOAN, Moses DICKIE, Nathaniel BRYAN."
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The History of Indiana County, Pennsylvania by J. A. Caldwell, p.
138; Newark, Ohio, 1880