My Lord
Since I left Annapolis I have received a Letter from M^r Cal-
vert advising me that your Lordship is resolved to put an
End to the Dispute which has subsisted between the Proprie-
taries of Pensilvania and your Lordship as soon as possible,
and that therefore I must transmit to him the following papers,
I^st Authenticated Copies of Patents to shew that the Islands
which are now known by the Names of Taylors and Iames
Islands were deemed Islands and not part of the Main Land
at the time that they were respectively presented and before
M^r Penn obtained his Charter, 2^dly Affidavits (if they are to
be got) to prove that Vessels of Burthen have heretofore
passed between those Islands and the Main Land and that the
sound which divides them from the Main Land has been and
ought to be considered as part of the Bay of Chesopeak,
3^dly A Certificate from M^r Emory one of your Lordships
Deputy Surveyors to satisfy your Lordship that the Draft
which was lately presented to you by M^r Paris is a true Copy
of one that he and the Surveyor which the Pensilvania Com-
missioners employed some years ago to run the Line from
Fenwix's Island to the Bay of Chesopeak signed and
returned, 4^thly A Copy of the Commission by which your
Lordships Father was pleased to impower sundry Gentlemen
to run Divisional Lines between the two Provinces of Mary-
land & Pensilvania according to the Articles of Agreement.
As it is necessary for the Iudges of the Land Office to know
by what names the several Tracts of Land which lye on those
Islands and on so much of the Main Land as is opposite to
them are called before they can find the Patents whereby they
were granted away by your Lordships Ancestors, I have
wrote to the Sherriff & Surveyor of Dorchester County &
ordered them to return a List of the Names of all those Lands
to the Judges of the Land Office without Delay, and 1 have