Coll Addi

       son & Coll

       Courts to

       inquire

       about Pis

       cattaway &

   Whitehall Choptico

            Indians

       Land

     Lib. H. D. The sd Report was Approved off, and Ordered that the

            Duty of the sd Wine be collected & Received accordingly.

                     Ordered that the honoble Coll John Addison &

                   Coll John Courts make inquiry whether ffrancis

                   Marberry of Charles County or any other person or

                   persons have Encroacht vpon the Emperor of pis

                   cattoways Land, as also inquire whose Land the

                   Choptico Indians hold, and vnder what Circum

                   stances they hold the same, and that they make

            Report thereof to this Board accordingly with all convenient

            speed.

          Coll Courts The honoble Coll John Courts & Thomas Brook

            & Mr Brooks       .         .

            permitted Esqr Representing that the Ships in their parts being

            to Retire very forward for Sailing, and having Urgent Busi

                   ness to dispatch away by those ships; therefore

       Whitehall humbly desire leave of the Board for some short time to Retire

            home for to looke after the same, which was accordingly

            granted & time given them till thursday next to Return in.

                       May the 9th 1696.

                   The Councill again Sate & were ptsent.

                 His Exncy ffrancis Nicholson Esqr Capt Genll &ca

                 Coll George Robotham Coll David Brown

       Coll Nicho Greenberry

       WhitehallColl Charles HutchinsColl John Addison

            Mr Attorneys Produced & Read Mr Attorney & Sollicitor Genlls

            touching Mr Report upon an Ordr of Reference from this Board

            Tench's of the ffifth of March last relatino to Mr Tench's

            Leaseofa          .

   Whitehall Mill &Ca Lease of a certain Mill prayed for &ca the said peti

                   tion, Ordr & Report &ca Rune in these following

            Words, Vizt

              To his Exncy ffrancis Nicholson Esqr his Mats Governr in

            Chief of the Province of Maryland &Ca

       p. 331The Petition of Thomas Tench of Ann-Arrundell County

            Esqr Tench Sheweth.

            pet for lease

       412 Proceedings of Ehe Council of Maryland, 1694 97.

          of a Mill that whereas he had Granted vnto him their

                   Mats Writ Quoad damnum, bearing Date the 20th day

            of Octobr 1692, for and in Ordr to building a Mill on the North

       Whitehall side of Lands Creeke, vpon which inquisition was made by a

            jury & Returned into the High Court of Chancery, by which