Assembly Proceedings, Nov. 14-Dec. 8, 1688. 219

that one hundred Acres of land be Assigned laid out & Sur-
vey'd on the North side of wiccocomocoe River Between white
point & bluff point vpon the Land of Cap^t Gerrard Slye within
the County aforesaid to be called or knowne by the name of
Wiccocomocoe towne for such vse & vses and vnder such
limitacons Restriccons & quallificacons as any other Towne or
Townes already Built are or by the Law ought to be any other
Law or vsage to the Contrary Notwithstanding, & whereas
the Inhabitants of Langsford bay hundred in the county of
Kent haue humbly prayed that they may have a towne upon
a certain point in the said Bay called Cackaway point, they
haueing no Towne port or place of trade whereto they can
carry their goods & Merchandizes but with great difficulty &
change of winds and danger of Endammageing their said
goods & M^rchandizes in Ladeing & vnladeing at the adjacent
Townes by meanes of great Shoales Bee It therefore Enacted
by the Authority aforesaid that One hundred Acres of Land
on the said Cackaway point being form^rly the Land of Toby
Wells for the ease & benefitt of the Inhabitants of the said
bay be survey'd & laid out for a towne port & place of Trade
& to be called by the name of Glocester Towne vnder such
limitacons & with the benifitt of such priviledges as to other
Townes nominated & Appointed by the Act for Advancem^t
of Trade & Supplimentary Acts to the same are allowed, And
whereas alsoe Itt is found Absolutely Necessary for the con-

Lib. W. H.

veniency of the Inhabitants of the severall Hundreds in the
sev^ll Countyes hereafter named that Townes, Ports & Places of
trade be erected in such places of the said Countyes as is here-
after nominated & appointed Bee it alsoe Enacted by the
Authority aforesaid that for the benifitt of the Inhabitants of
S^t Michaell's hundred in S^t Maries County one Towne port or
place of Trade be surveyed & Laid out att the head of S^t
Jeromes Creeke vpon the Land of M^r William Gwyther to be
called by the name of S^t Jeromes Towne, & for the ease &
benifitt of the Inhabitants in & about S^t Maries that one Towne
Port or place of Trade be surveyed & Laid out on the south
side of Petuxant River in Calvert County between Abington's
Creeke & Joseph Edloes in such convenient place as the Com-
miss^rs appointed for townes in the said County shall think fitt
to be Called by the name of S^t Joseph's Towne, alsoe one
other Towne port & place of Trade to be Surveyed & laid out
at Bowlings Point in the ffreshes of Petuxant River to be
called by the name of Bowlington for the use & benefitt of
the Inhabitants of Mattapany Hundred in the County afore-
said, One other upon a Tract of Land called Morgan neare
the head of flashing creek in little Choptancke in Dorchester

p. 303