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

              Lib. x. It was after this the Justices of Cecil County took Occasion

               p. 70 to extend the Claims of their County and to lay their Taxes

                  on the pennsylvanians setled at Nottingham but the people

                  Conscious of their being seated there by sufficient rights from

                  Mr Pen with due Caution to keep to the Northward of all

                  former Maryland Claims according to the Lord Baltimores

                  own fixed Bounds and determination they could not on pre

                  tences merely taken from the above mentioned false and par

                  tial Observations be perswaded to quit their rights and sue

                  for new Titles to others whose right of Granting them ap

                  peared at best not to be less disputable

                    During these disputes several Letters pass'd between Mr

                  Pens Commissioners of property and the late Mr Charles

                  Carrol Agent for Maryland and for preventing all misunder

                  standings and to preserve peace and Good Neighbourhood

                  until such time as the Line in dispute could be mutually

                  agreed upon and setled by both proprietaries the pennsylva

                  nia Commissioners assured Mr Carrol not only that they

                  never had Granted but even Obliged themselves not to grant

                  with their Knowledge any Lands to the Southward of the

                  aforesaid Line run by the late Charles Lord Baltimore him

                  self and it was purely in order to keep and preserve this

                  promise that Colo French of New Castle some time last spring

                  was directed without Instruments Chain Hatchet or the least

                  Mark of any Intention to Survey as the Justices of Cecil

                  County faisly alledged to walk with one other single person

                  along with him only with a Compass in their Hand from the

                  mouth of the River Octararoe aforesaid Eastward so that from

               p. 71    the said Colo French's Report the Comms might be with more

                  Certainty enabled to perform exactly their promise made to

                  Mr Carrol as aforesaid

                    On the other hand in the year 1718 some persons thô of

                  Rank in Maryland yet being led intirely by Gain without any

                  Regard to Iustice or the publick peace did take upon them

                  actually to make Surveys of very considerable Tracts of Land

                  as high at most as Conestogoe in the province of pennsylva

                  nia and above thirty miles North of all former Claims of

                  Maryland of which Complaint having been made to Colo John

                  Hart then Governor of Maryland and his Excellency having

                  likewise Complained of some Regulations which had been

                  made amongst the pennsylvanians at Nottingham by William

                  Keith Esqr Governor of that province an interview was ap

                  pointed between both the Governors at Colo Hynsons House

                  upon the Eastern Shore in Maryland where they met accord

                  ingly towards the latter end of October and the Minute of

                  that Conference taken by Consent of both parties is as follows