Source
- Intermediate Source:Tabbyannabel
- original Source:Pennsylvania Archives, 1664-1747, Page 213.
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Petition of the Inhabitants of Colebrookdale [Perkiomen Creek Settlement, Philadelphia (now Montgomery) Co PA]
To His Excellency Patrick Gordon Esqr., Governor Generall in Chief over the Province of pencilvania, and the Territoris thereunto Belonging, Benbrenors [Van Bebber's] township and the Adjacences Beloinging
May ye 10th 1728.
We think It fit to address your Excellency for Relief, for your Excellency must knowe That we have Suffered and is like to sufer By the Ingians, they have fell upon ye Back Inhabitors about falkners Swamp [New Hanover], & near Coshapopin [Goshenhoppen]. Therefore, we the humbel Petitioners, With our poor Wives & Children Do humbly Beg of your Excellency To Take It into Consideration and Relieve us the Petitioners hereof, Whos Lives Lies At Stake With us and our poor Wives & Children that is more to us than Life.
Therefore, We the humble Petitioners hereof, Do Desire An Answer from your Excellency by ye Bearer With Speed, so no more at present from your poor afflicted People Whose names are here Subscribed.
- John Roberts
- Jn. Pawling
- Henry Pannebeckers
- W. Lane
- John Jacobs
- _______ D. Bais
- Israell Morris
- Benjamine Fry
- Jacob Opdengraef
- Richard Adams
- George Poger
- Adam Sollom
- Dirtman Kolb
- Gabriel Showler
- Anthony Halmon
- John Isaac Rlein
- Hanss Detweiler
- William Bitts
- Heinrich Rutt
- Hubburt Castle
- Henry Rentlinger
- Christian Weber
- Gerhart de Hesse
- Lorentz Cinzamore
- Richard Jacob
- Herman Rubert
- Peter Bun
- Jacob Cugnred,
- Christian Nighswanger
- Conrad Cresson
- Jacob Kolb
- Hans Wolly Borgy
- John Mier
- Henrich Kolb
- John Frot
- Paul Frot
- Wm. Smith
- Peter Rambo
- David Young
- Christopher Schmit
- Garrett Clemens
- Mathias Tyson
- Peter Johnson,
- Yost Hyt
- Christian Aliback
- Hans Rife
- Daniel Stowfard
- Abraham Schwartz
- Johann Valentine Kratz
- John Johnson
- Ulrich Heffelfinger
- Nicholas Haldeman
- Michael Ziegler
- Christian Stoner
- Johannes Garber
- John Haldeman
- Claus Jansen
- Nicholas Hicks
- Johannes Leisher
- Jacob Sheimer
- Michael Krause
- Peter Reiff
- George Reiff
- George Meyer
- Bastian Smith
- Edward In de Hoffen
- Christian Kroll
- Jacob Grater
- Jacob Stauffer
- Henry Stauffer
- and Paul Friedt, Jr.
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