 In 1845, Charles Miner reported the claim that the Colonel William Plunket who commanded one of the two earliest battalions of the Northumberland Militia in Lycoming County, Pennsylvania, in 1775 was the same person as MacLaine's former accomplice.Miner quotes from "The Gentleman's Magazine" for September 1750 to summarise the association of Plunkett with MacLaine in the attack on Lord Eglintoun on Hounslow Heath.Miner then adds a transcript of a manuscript note found (before 1845) in a bound copy of "The Gentleman's Magazine" in the Athenaeum Library in London, at this point in the text, stating that Plunkett became a magistrate in Pennsylvania, that he acknowledged he had been the associate of MacLaine, and that persons in America who had known Plunkett in England had recognised him.