Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1726. 457

    several Laws subsisting which Concern the Tobacco Trade     Lib. X.

    and shall be ready on all Occasions to give you Proofs of

    our hearty desire to Cultivate a good Correspondence with

    your Government and of the particular respect with which

    we are                   Gentlemen

      Superscribed To the Your most Obedient humble Servants

    Honble Charles Calvert Esqr            Hugh Drysdale

    Governor of his Majestys Province      Robert Carter

    of Maryland and to the Honble          James Blair

    Council of the said Province           Cole Diggs

                  Maryland                 Peter Beverly

                                           John Robinson

                                           John Carter

                                           John Grymes

      At a Council held in the Council Chamber at Annapolis     p. 152

    on May the 4th 1726

                      Were Present

           The honble Charles Calvert Esqr Governor

                  Colo William Holland

                  Philemon Lloyd Esqr

      the honble  Colo M T Ward

                  Benjamin Tasker &

                  Nicholas Lowe Esqrs

      The petition of the Pocomoke and Assateague Indians in

    Somerset County being read Complaining that John Parker

    John Parker Junr and John Murray have entered their Towns

    against their will and have made Plantations so near that they

    shall Quit their said Towns unless they be removed

      Ordered that the Clerk of this Board write to the Sheriff

    of Somerset County to summon the said John Parker, John

    Parker Junr and John Murray to be and appear before the

    next General Assembly on the Second tuesday in July next

    to which time the same stands Prorogued to Answer the

    Complaint alledged against them by the said Indians

      And thereupon the following Letter was prepared and

    directed to the Sheriff of Somerset County

               By the Governor and Council

                    May the 4th 1726

    Sir

      Complaint having been made to this Board by the Poco

    moke and Asseateague Indians that John Parker John Parker

    junr and John Murray and some others have taken Possession