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Island to the Bay of Chesopeak, also the Map of Taylor's &
Iames's Islands with Mr Emory's Deposition annexed & a
Copy of the lournal that he kept when he assisted in running
the Line abovementioned, I shall likewise transmit two Dep-
ositions that I have just received relative to the Passage of
some Vessels heretofore thro the Streights or Thoroughfares
called Slaughter Creek & Oyster Creek & I shall also send
Copies of several Patents whereby the Tracts of Land that
lye on the Eastern Side or Shore of Slaughter Creek & some
Parts of Iames's & Taylors Islands were granted by the Lord
Proprietary in the early Days of the Province. I have desired
the Sheriff of Dorchester County to send me up Duplicates
of the two Depositions abovementioned together with some
more of the same Sort or to the same Purport if any other
Persons can be found that have ever seen Vessels of Burthen
pass thro those Streights & if he complies with my Request
before the Governor returns to Annapolis & I have any
Opportunity of transmitting 'em I shall not fail to As the
Descriptive Parts of the other Patents that have been granted
for Parcells or Tracts of Land on Taylors Island the
same or nearly the same Words that these do which you will
now receive Copies of, it was thought unnecessary to have
them transcribed especially as their Describing Taylor's Island
to lye in Slaughter Creek & not in the Bay of Chesopeak
seems to militate against Lord Baltimore. How it happened
that these Streights which divide Iames's from Taylors Island
and Taylor's Island from the Main Land have been called
Creeks I cannot learn nor why the several Islands that lye to
the Southward of them as well as Pools & the
other Islands which are to the Northward of
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Bay of Chesopeak These not vessels of Tay-
lor's Island as round many of them. I have heard it urged
that there is the same Reason why Taylor's Island should be
considered as Part of the Land over which the East & West
Line ought to be run that there is why Fenwix's Island should
be so considered, & that as the Commissioners begun to run
the Line from the Easternmost Shore of the Latter it ought to
be terminated by the Westernmost Shore of the former, or of
lamess Island as it might happen to fall; but this Argument
is no longer even specious when it be known that the Parcel
of Land which is called by the Name of Fenwix's Island is in
fact no Island but Part of the Main Land as Mr Emory
informed me some time ago when I was talking with him on
this Subject. It is supposed nay I believe the Map that was
transmitted to you by the Governor some time since will shew,
that if the Divisional Lines are run according to the Articles
of Agreement as the Lord Hardwick explained them, a navi-
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