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Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1742. 271
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Ordered that the Vestry have Copies of the said Petitions
and that they have Notice to attend this Board on Thursday
the twenty second of this Instant July.
At a Council held in the Council Chamber on Thursday
the 22d Day of July in the 28th year of his Lordships Dominion
Annoq Domini 1742
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Present
His Excellency Samuel Ogle Esqr Governor
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The
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Benjamin Tasker Esqr
George Plater Esqr
Col James Hollyday
Col Charles Hammond
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Col Levin Gale
Col James Harris
Samuel Chamberlain Esqr
Philip Thomas Esqr
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The Vestry of St James's Parish in Ann Arundel County
appearing by their Council to the Complaint of the Reverend
Mr John Lang desire further time to put in their Answer,
which is granted them until 20th day of Septemr next, and
ordered a hearing of the said Petitions the next Council Day
after
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At a Council held in the Council Chamber on Friday the
23d Day of July in the twenty Eighth Year of his Lordships
Dominion Annoq Domini 1742
Present as Yesterday
His Excellency is pleased to lay before this Board the
following Papers
Philadelphia Decemr 20th 1736
Sir
When the Indians of the five Nations were here in October
last, releasing to Our Proprietors all their Claim to the Lands
on Susquehannah, they pressed Us to write in their behalf to
the Governors of Maryland and Virginia, to make them Satis-
faction for the Lands those Governments are possessed of
lower on Susquehannah & Chesapeak, Isanandowa & the
Parts adjacent, belonging as they say, to them the said Indians,
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for which they have never been paid, but We found means to
avoid engaging in it while they continued here: Yet as they
took the Opportunity of obliging Our Interpreter, who by
Our Orders attended them near a hundred Miles in their Way
homewards, to write a Letter to Us at parting, on that & some
other heads, in which they are exceedingly pressing, We
think it incumbent on Us to send a Copy of that Part to both
Govern" & therefore inclosing this here, in my Answer to a
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