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       Ordered that George Plater Esq his mats Receiver and Lib. H. D.

     Attorney Genll do (upon Sight hereof) provide Some one Suffi

     cient person to Reside here in Town who will be answerable

     for the Actions and Business relating to both places (he hav

     ing an Annuall Salary from his Maty for the One and ffees and

     perquisites for the other) or that he Come and actually Reside

     here in Town with his ffamily himself with out which his Mats

     business will be much retarded and impeded.

     Majr Whit- Vpon A question put to Wm Whittington of

     tingsons infor

     mation touch. Somerset County in the Province of Maryland by

     ing severall the Rt honrble ffrancis Nicholson Esq: Capt Genll

     Encroachmts

     made by Wm &Ca touching some encroachments made within

     Clarke presi- the Bounds of Somerset County aforestt by some

     dent of the

     Horekill prsons Inhabitants of the Horekill. for Answer

     within the he humbly declareth.

     Bounds of

     Maryld   That being Surveyr of Somerset County about

              nine years since, he laid out or Surveyed Severall

     Tracts of Land for Sundry persons in the sd County and dur

     ing the time he was there Surveying, one Wm Clark presidt

     of the horekill Court, Came where I was Executing my Office

     in a Neck call'd ceadr Neck on the South Side of Rehoboth

     Bay (the place Ordered by the Ld Baltemore and Councill to

     be the northern Bounds of our County) about the years 1672:

     or 73: the Sd Clark made noe Objection against Wt I was

     about but after some discourse departed, But soon after, about

     the time of the late Revolution of Governmt within the Pro

     vince of Maryland the sd Clark with some others made Sale of

     most of such lands lying within the Bounds of our County;

     and Surveyed & Cert. Return'd by me in Maryland Right

     and hath recd: (as can be Evidently made appear) a Consider

     able quantity of money and such Comodities as the Countrey

     Affords and particularly sold the sd Ceader Neck which he

     once pttended to be a manner of Wm Penns and hath pro

     cured Pattents, in the Severall and respective prsons Names to p. 108

     whom he has made such Sale, in Pensilvania, many whereof

     yet are seated in the same Right, and altho: Complaints were

     made to the late Governr Copley yet by the Short time of his

     Continuance in the Governmt there was no Redress. Since

     his Exncys Arrivall, We have Us'd all Modest Endeavours to

     Regain the Ancient Meets and Bounds of our County alltho:

     mett with severall Strong opposicon most Chiefly by the

     Instigation of the sd Wm Clarke and one John Hill Sherriff, as

     Severall of the Inhabitants hath inform'd: and not long since

     my Shrivalry of Somerset being Obliged to Attach the Bodyes

     of Some p Virtue of my Authority have forced to Raise the

     Inhabitants to take them finding Severall in Arms, who made