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Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1722/3. 409
Justices in Baltimore County to take the deposition of the Lib. X. said John Hall Esqr relating to those matters in Pursuance whereof the following order of Council was made out and P. 75 sent vizt
By the Governor and Council March the 2d 1722 It being pretended in a paper (intituled a plain view of all that has been done or publickly talkd for these twenty years last by past Concerning the Boundaries of the provinces of Maryland and pennsylvania) that divers Gentlemen Magis trates and others of the Northern parts of Maryland waited upon Mr Penn out of respect to his Character in the year 1700 he was travelling from below Annapolis to visit the Indians at Conestogoe and that they stop'd in the Ford of Octeraroe River telling Mr Penn they had now accompanied him into his own province and therefore desired to take their Leave you are hereby Ordered to take the deposition of John Hall Esqr as to his Knowledge of those matters whether any such Gentlemen Magistrates and others of the Northern parts of Maryland waited on Mr Penn that year and who they were and whether they stop'd in the Ford of Octeraroe River as is pretended and told Mr Penn what is above specefied Signd p Order Directed toSamuel Skippon Cl Concil The worshipful Colo James Maxwell and the rest of his Brethren the Justices of Bal timore County
It being also pretended that my Lord Baltimore had fixed the Northern Limits of Maryland at or near the mouth of Octe raroe River and from thence caused an easterly Line to be run by his Surveyor General to the River Deleware the Board observ'd that no proofs appeared of any such Line Run but on p. 76 the Contrary that it is evident that his said Lordship had taken Observations at Uplandt in the year 1682 and that Major Sewall accompanied his Lordship when the said Observations were taken and thereupon Ordered that Major Nicholas Sewalls Deposition be taken relating to the Observations taken at Uplandt by Charles late Lord Baltimore in the year 1682 It being also pretended in the said plain view that the In habitants of Chester County planted and setled Nottingham without any molestation or Objection from Maryland whatso ever till such time as Mr Charles Carrol late Agent for the Lord proprietary of Maryland envying (as is said the Improve-
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