332 Assembly Proceedings, 1651.

Liber M C

Prevention of any Controversies which may otherwise hereafter
happen between the Inhabitants of Virginia and those of our
said Province about the same we Require you our said Lieu^t
tenant to encourage some English as soon as you can to take
up such Land as shall be due unto them in our said Province
by virtue of Our Conditions of Plantation or other warrant
from, us Near to the Bounds of our said Province according to
the Mapps thereof which we sent thither about two years Since
and Accordingly to pass Grants in our name under our Great
Seal to such as shall desire the same of so much land in those
parts of Our said Province as shall be due unto them as afore-
said especially on or near the Bounds of our said Province on
that Tract of Land which is Commonly Called the Eastern
Shoar lying between the Bay of Chesopeak and the Sea and also
on or Near the Bounds of Our said Province that Tract of Land
which lyeth between the Creek or River that runneth by Patow-
meck Town called in the Mapp Patowmeck River on the South
and the River which runneth by Piscattoway (called in the

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Mapps aforesaid by the Name of Piscattoway River on the
North in which last tract is included as we are informed that
place where M^r Giles Brent now resides called by him peace
and also the Country called there the Doages and for the
better Encouragement of English to make Choice of their
dividents of Land and to seat themselves in the places afore-
said we do hereby Authorise and Require you our said Lieu^t
tenant to Grant in our Name under our said Great Seal to any
Adventurer or Planter that shall make Choice of his dividend
and Seat a Plantation of English either on the said Eastern
Shoar or on that Tract of Land wherein the Doages is included
as aforesaid One hundred Acres of Land in any place of either
of those two parts of our said Province to him and his heirs
forever for or in respect of Every Person of British or Irish
descent which he shall transport from other parts into our said
Province according to our last Conditions of Plantation above
mentioned and upon such terms and Conditions as are therein
expressed which we will shall Continue in force in all things to
those two last mentioned parts of our said Province till we or
our heirs shall declare our further Pleasure to the Contrary
any thing herein Contain'd to the Contrary in any wise not-
withstanding when we made Cap^t William Mitchell one of our
Council of State in that Prov^o (which we were induced unto by
his ability of understanding we Conceiv'd that he would have
been a Good Assistance to You our said Lieutenant and the
rest of Our Council for the better Conduct of Our Government
there and did hope that according to his Serious Professions to
us he would not only by his advice but also by his Example of
Life have Conduced much to the Advancement of that Province