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W. Pen. Capt: Connaway it's true is a knowing person but
before we goe further I am desirous to purge him of some
aspersions have bin cast on him that he should have advised
me I doe declare that I never had any advice from him in this
particular neither indeed did I to my knowledge ever see him
before such time as I had my Pattent granted me.
Lord B. What has been said of Capt: Connaway I knowe
not but what ever he hath said or don I doe assure you never
tooke any impression upon me but that some misreports have
been made the Mapps and draughts which have bin sett forth
sufficiently evince.
W. Pen. Upon the view of the Mapp of Maryland some
persons taking the meetes as the same lay displayed found that
the Author had either much abused the Lord Baltemore in the
wrong calculation or else allowed him more land then indeed
was intended for him & accordingly some draughts have bin
made.
Lord B. My Pattent gives me as you and all here present
know the fortieth degree of Northern latitude and the Sunn
with such an Instrument as I have mentioned will soone satisfie
us where that is for thither my Pattent gives me.
W. Pen. Then thus in short I have here produced the
King's letter in answer to which the Lord Baltemore sayeth
that he will rather abide by his Pattent which is under the
great seale then to the bare contents of a letter.
Lord B. Mr Pen were it your case would you not stick to a
Pattent soe plaine as mine is ?
W. Pen. I doe not blame the Lord Baltemore it may be I
should doe the same as he does I have consented to wave
that and for the more equal acomodation between us I have
proposed that for the ascertaining the bounds between us let
us begin and take our comencement from the Capes so
antiently and generally knowne and reputed to lye within
thirty seaven degrees and five minutes and thence proceed till
we come to forty which binds the Lord Baltemore to the North-
ward and from whence I must begin to that the Lord Balte-
more doth reply that true he is bounded by the fortieth degree
to the Northward and the most exact way to find that out is by
an observation taken with a land Instrument in answer to
which I have returned that I conceive that to be an uncertaine
way for the reasons I have so often urged and say lett some
persons be jointly comissionated between us to take observation
at the Capes and report how much it varies from the antient
generally reputed and received opinion and then proceed to
find the latitude of Watkins Point and from thence by an exact
line measure out to the degree of forty to that end if the Lord
Baltemore please to select foure or five persons to be jointly
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