Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1722/3. 405

    Southward of any Settlement yet made by Pennsylvania the Lib. X.

    said Commissioners of Property at first refused the Grant

    lest it might occasion misunderstandings and disputes between

    the two Governments but the parties concernd having repeated

    their application with great Importunities did at last with the

    Assistance of Henry Holingsworth then Surveyor for Chester

    County prove to the Commissioners that the whole Tract of

    Nottingham by them demanded and afterwards possesd lay

    to the Northward of that Line from the Mouth of Octeraroe

    which the said Char Lord Baltimore himself had fixed as his

    Boundary to the Northward, and some of the Commissioners

    themselves being of the number of those who had accom

    panied Mr Pen from Maryland to Conestogoe in the year

    1700 as is above related and very well remembering the above

    mentioned particular expressions which passed between Mr

    Pen and the Gentlemen of Maryland at Octeraroe Ford they

    Could not but think themselves as they still do very safe and p. 69

    Justifiable at that time in Granting the said Tract of Land

    which was immediately setled by a Considerable number of

    people from Chester County afd without any molestation or

    Objection from Maryland whatsoever but as the Successful

    and speedy improvemt of the Pennsylvanians at Nottingham

    doubtless gave some Cause of Envy upon which the late Mr

    Charles Carrol then Agent for the Lord Proprietary of Mary

    land procured as it is said a very large Quadrant to be sent

    from England in Order to take a more exact Observation of

    the Latitude thereby to extend further if possible the above

    mentioned Northern Limits of that province a very great

    Noise was made about some Observations that had been

    endeavoured to be taken by the said Mr Carrol at the

    Head of North east River from which he pretended to

    extend the Northern Boundaries of Maryland considerably

    beyond what either the said Charles Lord Baltimore had

    himself fixed or any person in his Behalf had ever as yet

    Claimed

      But the said Astronomical Observations being as it was

    supposed sent by Mr Carrols Order to James Logan Agent

    for Mr Pen at Philadelphia as being a person not unskilled in

    such matters Mr Logan very carefully examined the perfor

    mance but found them so much out of the way even in the

    Calculation of the Suns Declination as varied thefr work at

    least ten minutes which Mr Logan by a Letter under his hand

    to Mr Carrol offered to prove by repeating the Observation

    with the same Instrument under the penalty of forfeiting its

    Value