[11] "Eleanor Coldren's Deposition," pp. 220-222. [12] Linn, _Annals of the Buffalo Valley_, p. 95; and Meginness, _Otzinachson_ (1889), p. 473. [13] MacMinn, _On the Frontier with Colonel Antes_, p. 316. [14] Linn, _History of Centre and Clinton Counties_, p. 473. [15] _Pennsylvania Archives_, Second Series, III, 770. [16] MacMinn, _On the Frontier with Colonel Antes_, pp. 416-420. See also Alex. Patterson to John Dickinson (October 28, 1783) in the Zebulon Butler Papers, Wyoming Historical and Geological Society, Wilkes-Barre, Pa. Patterson, speaking of Antes' failure to arrest Zebulon Butler, said of Antes: "The Sheriff has not done his duty nor do I believe he intends it being. A party man among which I am sorry to see so little principels of humanity or honnor, Men who wish for popularity at the Expense of the Propperty and perhaps blood of their fellow Citizens...." [17] _Pennsylvania Archives_, Second Series, III, 768-772, and MacMinn, _On the Frontier with Colonel Antes_, 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.