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with having your Lordships Concurrence for such an Ex-
amination into its Course Length Width and Depth as may
bring this Matter to a nearer degree of Certainty and if that
should appear to be the fountain head of Patowmeck River
I shall not Question but your Lordship will be for taking
such Measures as may ascertain the Mutual Limits of the
two Proprietorships Agreeable to the Direction and True
Intention of their Respective Charters.
His Excellency having been pleased to signify to this
Board his Lordships pleasure that We should give our Sense
of what Terms might be reasonable for an Agreement be-
tween himself and the Proprietarys of Pensilvania in the
Settlement of the Respective Limits and bounds of their two

Lib. J. R.

& U. S.

Provinces, and Several Plans and observations being laid
before Us We are of opinion that so much uncertainty ap-
pears at present as well with Respect to the heads of Rivers
runing into Chesapeak Bay as to the Circle of Newcastle and
the Latitude of the most Northern Bend of Patowmeck River
That we could not presume to advise any particular Boundary
unless a due North line could be run from the Middle of such
and East and West Line as may be agreed on between the
Proprietarys across the Peninsula as also a due west Radius
run from the Center of the said Circle of Newcastle and the
Latitude of the most Northern Bend of Patowmeck to be
taken by observation

At a Council held in the Council Chamber the I7th Day of
October in the third year of his Lordships Dominion An-
noque Domini 1753.

Present
His Excellencv Horatio Sharpe Esq^r Governor

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The
Honourable

Benjamin Tasker Esq^r
George Plater Esq^r
Samuel Chamberlain Esq^r
Philip Thomas Esq^r

Col Benjamin Tasker

Richard Lee Esq^r
Benedict Calvert Esq^r