[34] _Ibid._

[35] Meginness, _Otzinachson_ (1889), p. 469.

[36] Now Linden, in Woodward Township, a few miles west of Williamsport.

[37] King refers here to the Great Runaway of 1778.

[38] Linn, "Indian Land and Its Fair-Play Settlers," p. 423-424.

[39] Meginness, _Otzinachson_ (1889), p. 470.

[40] _Ibid._, p. 471.

[41] D. S. Maynard, _Historical View of Clinton County_ (Lock Haven,
1875), pp. 207-208. Maynard has reprinted here some excerpts from John
Hamilton's "Early Times on the West Branch," which was published in the
Lock Haven _Republican_ in 1875. Unfortunately, recurrent floods
destroyed most of the newspaper files, and copies of this series are not
now available. John Hamilton was a third-generation descendant of
Alexander Hamilton, one of the original Fair Play settlers.

[42] Meginness, _Otzinachson_ (1857), p. 193.

[43] _Ibid._ An alleged copy of the declaration published in _A Picture
of Clinton County_ (Lock Haven, 1942), p. 38, is clearly spurious. The
language of this Pennsylvania Writers' project of the W.P.A. is
obviously twentieth-century, and it contains references to events which
had not yet occurred.

[44] _Fithian: Journal_, p. 72.

[45] Muncy Historical Society, Muncy, Pa., Wagner Collection, Anna
Jackson Hamilton to Hon. George C. Whiting, Commissioner of Pensions,
Dec. 16, 1858.

[46] _Ibid._, John Hamilton to Hon. George C. Whiting, Commissioner of
Pensions, May 27, 1859.

[47] The veracity of the witness is an important question here.
Meginness, in his 1857 edition, devotes a footnote, p. 168, to this
remarkable woman who was in full possession of her faculties at the
time. The Rev. John Grier, son-in-law of Mrs. Hamilton and brother of
Supreme Court Justice Robert C. Grier, wrote to President Buchanan on
Nov. 12, 1858, (Wagner Collection), stating that "Mrs. Hamilton is one
of the most intelligent in our community." Buchanan then wrote an
affidavit in support of Grier's statements to the Commissioner of
Pensions, Nov. 27, 1858, (Wagner Collection). Aside from the
declarations of Mrs. Hamilton and her son, the only other support, and
this is hearsay, is found in the account of an alleged conversation
between W. H. Sanderson and Robert Couvenhoven, the famed scout. W. H.
Sanderson, _Historical Reminiscences_, ed. Henry W. Shoemaker (Altoona,
1920), pp. 6-8. Here again, the fact that the reminiscences were not
recorded until some seventy years after the "chats" raises