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s_, pp. 330, 395, and 413. [18] _Pennsylvania Archives_, Second Series, III, 769. [19] _Ibid._, p. 771. [20] _Ibid._, pp. 769, 771; Linn, _History of Centre and Clinton Counties_, pp. 473-474; and _Colonial Records_, XI, 367. [21] _Pennsylvania Archives_, Third Series, XIX, 618. [22] MacMinn, _On the Frontier with Colonel Antes_, pp. 12 and 420. [23] _Pennsylvania Archives_, Third Series, XIX, 437. [24] _Colonial Records_, XII. 137. [25] _Fithian: Journal_, p. 81. [26] Linn, _History of Centre and Clinton Counties_, p. 473. The full account of Hamilton's military service is given in the Hamilton Pension Papers in the Wagner Collection, Muncy Historical Society. Hamilton had also been a member of the group commissioned to lay out a road from Bald Eagle Creek to Fort Augusta. Linn, _History_, p. 472. [27] _Ibid._, p. 474, and Meginness, _Otzinachson_ (1889), p. 474. [28] _Pennsylvania Archives_, Second Series, III, 770. [29] Linn, _History of Centre and Clinton Counties_, p. 472. [30] _Ibid._, p. 473. [31] _Ibid._; Yeates, _Pennsylvania Reports_, I, 498; and Russell, "Signers of the Pine Creek Declaration of Independence," p. 4. [32] Becker, _Beginnings of the American People_, p. 180. [33] _Pennsylvania Archives_, Second Series, III, pp. 217-218. The petition was dated June 21, 1778. The situation had been further complicated by the enlistment the previous summer of many of the able-bodied men to aid Washington in Cambridge, Massachusetts. These men, "early in the service of their Country from the unpurchased land on the West Branch of the River Susquehanna," deprived the valley of its available manpower. [34] _See_ Chapter Two for a fuller description of the Great Runaway. [35] Helen Herritt Russell, "The Great Runaway of 1778," _The Journal of the Lycoming Historical Society_, II, No. 4 (1961), 3-10. This article contains a few additions to an article by the same name by Mrs. Russell published in _The Northumberland County Historical Society Proceedings and Addresses_, XXIII (1960), 1-16. [36] _Pennsylvania Archives_, Second Series, III, 518-522. [37] Smith, _Laws_, II, 195. [38] Robert Fleming and Frederick Antes, as previously noted, had been elected in 1777 and 1784, respectively. [39] Dunaway, _History of Pennsylvania_, pp. 176, 196. Of these fifty-eight, twenty-eight came from the frontier counties of York, Berks, Bedford, Cumberland, and Northumberland. [40] Wall
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