Transcribed by Dr. Peter Craig, F.A.S.G., Historian, Swedish Colonial Society  -REV C FORDE 10/16/07 6:17 AM 

John Scott Davenport, The Frontier Hendricks (The Frontier Hendricks Association, LaPlata MD, 1993). 

Bankston Timeline: http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=pNbKnKmj8jWI8yTUtpkTAQg

At page 193, Davenport writes:

173? - Sometime during the 1730s Lawrence Bankston became allied with Thomas Cresap, an agent of the Governor of Maryland, who was trying to claim the west bank of the Susque-hannah as far north as Wright's Ferry (now Wrightsville, Pennsylvania) as Maryland territory. Through Cresap, Bankston apparently obtained a Maryland warrant and survey for 400a., allegedly on Codorous Creek three miles north of Little York (York Town which was not platted until 1742?] "on the Great Road" to Conewago -- all present day York County, Pennsylvania. This description, in a deed by three of Lawrence's sons from Georgia in 1786, is highly confused as to location as well as in its time reference. The Great Road ran East North East to Southwest, not North. Thomas Cresap and Lawrence Bankston were associated in the 1730s, not in the 1760s when the Mason-Dixon Line was being run as the sons' deed suggests.

 An approximate location of the Bankston claim would have been in Manchester Two., York Co., Pa., near the tract owned by Francis Worley (brother-in-law of John Hendricks, son of James, Sr.) and the improvement that John Hendricks (of James, Sr.) sold in 1742. Whatever, after creating substantial trouble -- including murders and riots -- Cresap and most of his cohorts withdrew from Pennsylvania in the late 1730s, and all those who held Maryland land titles from him above the temporary line of 1742 had no status in Pennsylvania. Bankston's tract would have been twenty-three miles north of the Temporary Line. The Mason-Dixon Line, surveyed 1765-66, settled the matter -- it ran slightly south of the Temporary Line.

Circumstantial evidence now suggests that Lawrence was associated with his uncle Joseph Bankston and a cousin Andrew Bankston (of Andrew, Jr.) in the Border Dispute venture, for both became Marylanders during the late 1730s. While evidence still needs to be gathered, during this period or sometime before 1744 Lawrence Bankston began an association with a James Hendricks, who could have only been a son of John Hendricks, Sr., and, therefore, his brother-in-law.  * * *

While in Pennsylvania as Maryland authority advocates, Lawrence and John Hendricks (of James, Sr.) participated in the riots instigated by Cresap against Pennsylvania authorities, to wit:

1 Feb1736/7 - Recognizance: John Hendricks ordered to appear and give bond to be of good behavior to all his Majesty's subjects of this Government, Bound over. (Lancaster Co., Pa. Quarter Sessions Minutes)

3May1737 - Recognizance: Lawrence Bankston and John Hendricks ordered to give bond for the appearance of Bankston at next Court and for his good behavior.

These court actions followed the riots of the Fall of 1736 when a mob of Maryland sympathizers, including "one John Hendricks of the Maryland militia," rioted and pillaged a number of homes of west bank of the Susquehanna settlers ("Germans and others") who had pledged loyalty to Maryland and then had reneged and re-recognized Pennsylvania authority. Among the leaders of the "Germans and others" settled on the West Bank (now York Co., Pa.) were Henry Hendricks (son of Tobias, Sr.) and Tobias Hendricks (son of John Hendricks, Sr., and his first wife Frances Bezer, and therefore, a half brother-in-law to Lawrence Bankson). Henry Hendricks' home was one of those plundered and pillaged by the mob.

p. 194

1744 -- Tax List: Lawrence Bankston, James Hendricks identified as taxable in Edgecombe County North Carolina. (Ratliff, North Carolina Taxpayers, 1701-1786)

(This is followed by frequent citations to Lawrence Bankston in North Carolina; also his sons. Among these citations:)

Jun1758 - County Court: William Lea, Esq. appointed Commissioner of Roads in place of Lawrence Bankston, Esq. (OrC Minutes 2:148) [p. 196]

Aug.1765 - County court - Nash & McNair vs. Andrew Bankston, debt. Nash & McNair vs. Lawrence Bankston, debt. (OrC Minutes, 3:435) [p. 197]

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