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Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1726. 461
At a Council held in the Council Chamber at the City of Lib. Annapolis on Wednesday the 26th day of October in the 13th Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord King George in the 11th Year of his Lordship the Lord Proprietarys dominion &c Annoq Dni 1726 Were Present The honble Charles Calvert Esqr Governor
Colo William Holland Colo Thomas Addison Members of his Philemon Lloyd Esqr the honble . . Lordships honble Colo Richard Tilghman . Council Benjamin Tasker Esqr Philip Lee Esqr The following Complaint made to Philemon Lloyd Esqr a Member of this Board by Robin chief of the River Indians was read vizt
That the English Obstruct and Deprive them of Hunting Beavors and that Iohn Elliott tells the Indians that the Branch p. 158 on which the Beaver damn is made is his land and therefore will not Suffer the Indians to hunt there for Beavor tho the Rent of their Lands is to be paid in Beavor Skins 2dly That they are threatned and forewarned to Hunt in the Neck called Privey Neck and Cedar neck William Pepper in Ricey Neck John Collins Cesar Godin and Thomas Robin son in Cedar Neck threatning to beat them and break their Guns and Cesar Godin to make the Indians more Afraid beat one of the Young men with a Hicory Stick about two Years ago Indian George of the came Nation Complains that the last Summer a little before Cherry time he was met in Dorset County Forrest by one Iohn Howard who had several times threatned this Complaint that if he met him in those woods a hunting that he would beat him and break his Gun but at the time aforesaid finding he had three Green Skins on his Back he tax'd him with hunting in his woods Notwithstanding his pre- warning and then seiz'd his Gun and brake it broke his head knockt him down with it and left him for dead and that he lay ill of the wound 3 days at Lance Harwoods where he got with the Assistance of his wife who was in the woods with him Ordered that the Clerk of this Board make out Summons Directed to the Sheriffs of Somerset and Dorset Countys for the persons before mentioned as also for Philemon Le Compte and Isaac Nichols that they be and appear at the City of Annapolis at the next Session of Assembly that shall
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