528 Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1730.

             Lib. M. The Petition of many the Inhabitants of Great Choptank

                  Parish in Dorchester County

                  Most humbly Sheweth

               p. 30   That in the said Parish the Church thereof is placed on the

                  Side of Choptank River, a great distance from your Petition

                  ers so that they could not possibly attend Gods Worship

                  therein

                   That your Petitioners in Regard to the Great Distance to

                  the Parish Church aforesaid, did in or about the Year 1709

                  by the Assistance of the then Vestry and their own Contribu

                  tion obtain a Chappel of Ease scituate in Vienna Town by

                  Nanticoak River on the other side of the Parish aforesaid

                   Notwithstanding the peaceable Enjoyment of the said

                  Chappel ever since, as well as convenient Scituation of it;

                  several Endeavours hath been made to remove the same, to

                  the great Inconveniency of Your Petitioners, and since those

                  Endcavour3 hath hitherto been frustrated by a suitable Oppo

                  sition, so Your Petrs were in hopes of resting easy and quiet

                  in the Use of the said Chappel for the future

                   But so it is May it please Your Excellency and Honours,

                  the Vestry of the said Parish of late (to the Great Surprize

                  of your Petitioners) did make an Appointment to meet at a

                  Certain Place in Order to Chuse A Peice of Land, and Con

                  tract with a Workman to Erect another Chappel of Ease not

                  distant from the former above five Miles; which accordingly

                  they have done; althô there is no intervening Creek, Cove,

                  Branch or Swamp between them whereby the People may be

                  incommoded in their Passage; by which means Your Peti

                  tioners althô not at present may hereafter by such a Method

                  be deprived of the abovesaid Chappel at Vienna which they

                  have so long enjoyed

                   The Premises considered Your Petitioners humbly intreats

                  such Relief herein, as may prevent the Vestry erecting the

                  new Chappel, the securing and repairing the Old, or such

                  Orders and Determinations in this Matter as in your Great

                  Wisdoms may be for the Quiet and Ease of Your Petitioners

                  in their Possession of the sd Chappel, and preventing design

                  ing Persons giving them Uneasiness therein for the future,

                  and Your Petirs as in Duty bound shall pray

                  Edwd Elliott  Michl Stockdell Henry Parks

                  John Hurley   Jno Creek Jacob Charles

                  Rogr Hurley   Wm SmithIsaac Charles

                  Darby Hurley  John MinishJoseph Hust

                  Morris WKenney           Wm Guy    John Lamey

                  Rogr Dudley   Nathl Mitchell  Robt Dixon