58 Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1667-75.

Liber A. M.

Ordered that the Surveyor General do make out the North-
erly bounds of this Province as near as Possible at the degree
forty Northerly Latitude and return his Observations to the
deputy Lieutenants in Council and that M^r Brooks the Gov-
ernors Steward be desired to provide the Governors Sloop
with men and Victuals for the accommodating the Surveyor
General up the Bay by the nine and twentieth of this instant
month of October

Copy of a Letter sent from New Castle the 26^th of Novem-
ber 1669 unto Colonel Francis Lovelace Governor of New
York

Honoured Sir
In Obedience to the right honble the Lord Proprietary of
Marylands Orders viz^t to Cause to be surveyed & seated
all his Lordships Land Land mentioned and Containd his
Patent to the Sea board side and Deleware to the Latitude of
forty degrees Northward in pursuance of which having been
at New Castle upon deleware River and found the said New
Castle by Observation made this day the six and twentieth
day of November 1669 to lye in thirty Nine Degrees thirty

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minutes Northerly Latitude which is thirty minutes to the
Southward from the Northern Bounds of the Land Granted
by his Majesty of Great Britain to the Lord Proprietary of
Maryland as by his Lordships Patent more largely doth appear
but understanding the said Town of Newcastle (since his
Majesty was most Graciously pleased to send forces to reduce
it from the usurped Power of the dutch) hath been protected
under the Government of New York I could no less but
acquaint your Honour with the claims I have made and do
make in these presents make in the name of the right Honble
the Lord Proprietary of Maryland to the Town of New Castle
and unto all the Islands and Territories lying on the west to
the main Ocean and Deleware from the Bounds of Virginia
unto the Latitude of forty Degrees Northward so hoping your
Honour will not be an Obstruction to my Proceedings but
quietly suffer his Majestys Subjects to be seated under that
Power he hath most graciously been pleased to bestow on the
Lord Baron of Baltimore I rest
Your Honours most humble Serv^t
Ierome White

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Right Honble
Since it hath pleased God to take away Iohn Collet a Clerk
of this County and the County Business being neglected for
want of a Clerk by the advice of Ierome White Esq^r we have
for the present made choice of one Thomas Salmon whom we