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-