 | Pennsylvania. Provincial Council - Pennsylvania - 1851 - 828 pages
...must either return without executing their Warrant, or destroy the House to come at him, they sett fire to it, but offered to quench it if he would Surrender;...persisted in his Refusal, neither would he suffer his Wife & Children to leave the House, but fired at those who proposed it; That when the Fire prevailed, &... | |
 | Pennsylvania - 1851 - 850 pages
...either return without executing their Warrant, or destroy the House to come at him, they sett tire to it, but offered to quench it if he would Surrender;...persisted in his Refusal, neither would he suffer his Wife & Children to leave the House, but fired at those who proposed it ; That when the Fire prevailed, &... | |
 | John Thomas Scharf - Maryland - 1879 - 594 pages
...they must either return without executing their warrant or destroy the house to come at him, they set fire to it, but offered to quench it if he would surrender;...persisted in his refusal, neither would he suffer his wife or children to leave the house, but fired at those who proposed it ; that when the fire prevailed and... | |
 | John Thomas Scharf - Maryland - 1879 - 598 pages
...they must either return without executing their warrant or destroy the house to come at him, they set fire to it, but offered to quench it if he would surrender;...persisted in his refusal, neither would he suffer his wife or children to leave the house, but fired at those who proposed it ; that when the fire prevailed and... | |
 | Pennsylvania. Bureau of Industrial Statistics - Industrial statistics - 1906 - 776 pages
...they must either return without executing their warrant, or destroy the house to come at him, they set fire to it, but offered to quench it if he would surrender;...leave the house, but fired at those who proposed it; that when the fire prevailed, and the floor was ready to fall in, he and those with him rushed forth... | |
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... those with him rushed forth loaded with arms, which, as they fired at the sheriff and his assistants, they threw away, and in this confusion one of... 