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

        Lib. X.  At a Council held at Philadelphia the 5th day of Novem

                 ber 1722

                                 Present

                         The Honble Sir William Keith Baronet

                     Richard Hill                 Robert Asheton

                     Isaac Norris                 Thomas Masters

                     Saml Preston                 Andr. Hamilton

                                      I Logan

                   The Governor acquainted the Board that having made it

                 his Care from his first Accession to this Government to pre

                 serve a perfect good understanding with all our Neighbours

                 and particularly with Maryland the Measures Concerted with

          p. 80  that Government notwithstanding the unhappy uncertainty of

                 our Boundaries had proved so successful that till some warm

                 and Angry Steps were made last winter by some Magistrates

                 of Cecil we had lived very friendly with them that further in

                 June last these Magistrates had very unkindly made Prisoners

                 of Isaac Taylor the Surveyor a Magistrate and Member of

                 Assembly for the County of Chester and Elisha Gatchell

                 another Magistrate of the same that those two persons having

                 engaged to appear at Cecil Court in August last when the

                 Governor was Obliged to undertake his Journey to Albany

                 he sent an express to his good Friend the Governor of Mary

                 land to have that matter accommodated but all the Resolution

                 taken in it as he finds since his return by the Report of James

                 Logan and Robert Asheton whom he had desired to wait on

                 that Governor at Cecil Court was that those two men should

                 be bound over to the Provincial Court at Annapolis which

                 they were pleased at length to respite on account of his

                 absence on that important Journey that he had since wrote to

                 Colo Calvert requesting that all those differences might lie

                 over as they were till both Governors could in person adjust

                 them which he had proposed to Col Calvert to do by a Con

                 ference if that Gentleman would be pleased to meet him that

                 three days ago he had received a Letter from Colo Calvert

                 dated the 18th of last month now read to the Board by which

                 it manifestly appears that tho that worthy Gentleman cannot

                 forget his Character and innate Goodness yet some Councils

                 seem of late to be entred on Maryland inconsistent with the

                 Tranquillity of his Majestys Subjects in both Governments

                 the Governor therefore desires the opinion and advice of this

                 Board what measures may be most proper for him to take for

          p. 81  preventing the fatal Consequences of a General misunder

                 standing with such near Neighbours with whom we have

                 hitherto happily lived in good Friendship