[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.