374 Assembly Proceedings, April 26-May 3, 1704.

P. R. O.

lyeing between Rehobath Bay, the Indian River, and Assa-
warmett inlett Creeke or River

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The said Land haueing ever been accounted to belong
unto the Workhills now called Sussex, on the Eleaventh day
of May 1677 there was awarrant from the Court of the then
Workhills County, six hundred and Eighty acres of Land
Surv^d and Layed by one Cornelius Vehoof the then Surv^r to
Capt. Nathan Walker, on the South side of Rehobath Bay
called Cedar Neck, and on or about the 11^th day of October
1678 the said Captaine Walker makeing applicaon to Sir
Edmond Andros, the then Gov^r of New York and Dellaware
River and Bay, And for a pattent of confirmation of the said
Land taken up, and Surveyed as af^d, the said Govern^r ordered
his Secretary Captaine Nichols to informe the Justices of the
Workhill County that it was the Gov^rs Pleasure the said Capⁿ
Walker should haue a Pattent for the said Land as requested
in case itt should be certified by the said Court, y^r itt was not
already granted or possessed by any other
Severall other persons inhabitants of the s^d County alsoe
tooke up Land, and peaceably Enjoyed the same without any
lett, hindrance or molestaon from the Lord Baltemore, or any
claymeing by, from, or under him
In the yeare 1682 W^m Penn Esq^r Propry & Gov^r of the
Province of Pensilvania obtained a grant from the then Kings
Dearest Brother James Duke of Yorke for the County's of
New Castle, Kent, Sussex now soe called, and in the said
yeare, came over unto this Governem^t and haueing gone
downe in pson, and viewed the Southernmost bounds of the
Workhills, now called Sussex County did on the fourth day
of May 1683 by his warrant under his hand and Seale,
directed to the then Surv^r or his Deputy require him to
Survey and lay out for the said Duke of Yorke Tenn Thou-
sand acres of Land for a Mann^r upon the North side of
Assawarmett River, and Inlett, and alsoe by another like
warrant of the same date commanded then Surv^r to lay out
for himselfe the said Propry all the rest of the Land lyeing
between the Dukes Mann^r & Rehobath Bay, both which were
actually surveyed and layed out by Joshua Blackstead, the
then Deputy Surveyor in the moneth of October 1683
Soone afterwards differences ariseing between the two
proprys the Lord Baltemore and William Penn Esquire about
the bounds of theire grants, as well to the Southward as to
the Northward, the said Difference was laid before the King
and Councill the 13th November 1685, & by them committed
to the honble the Lords Com^rs for trade and Forreigne
plantaons; Upon whose Reporte it was ordered by the King

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in Councill, that for according of further differences, the Tract