You might be right,But he didn't have to serve he new the stakes involved and if his side lost he probably would have been "strung up".
By the way is any of the 150 acres still in the family?
There are relatives, not close though, who still have some of the land granted, but it's parceled out due to all the children, so it's not intact, and it's not all still in the family. The old homeplace, a two story in the German "double pen" style, built of tremendous chestnut logs, burned down accidentally in 1980, just a year shy of being 200 years old. That was a sad loss, you won't find hardwood logs that big anymore, let alone chestnut logs. My end of the family doesn't own any of the original grant; his youngest son (and my 3G) married into a Quaker family and established himself not far from them a few miles to the north, near the "new" county seat. Close family members still have some of that land.