364 Assembly Proceedings, October 6-November 6, 1725.

L. H. J.

Thereupon they past for Engrossing.
The Report of the Committee appointed on Cap^t Riders
Affair was brought into the House and ordered to be Entered
as follows viz :

At a Committee Appointed by the Upper and Lower
Houses of Assembly to Enquire into the Affair Concern-
ing the Claims made by Cap^t John Rider and M^r Isaac
Nicholls to some part of the Indians' Lands in Chico-
wan upon Nanticoke.

The Members appointed are as follows.

Of the Hono^ble

Philemon Lloyd Esq^r
Coll^o Richard Tilghman

the Upper House

Of the Hono^ble

Coll^o John Mackall
Coll^o Tho: Truman Greenfield
John Beale Esq^r
M^r George Dashiel
M^r John Kirk
M^r Ralph Crabb

the Lower
House.

Who Make Choice of Philemon Lloyd Esq^r Their Chair-
man and William Ghiselin their Clerk and thereupon proceed

to the Subject Matter Given them in Charge, and do Repre-
sent that it appeareth to this Comittee upon Inspection into
the Severall papers Laid before us that Cap^t John Rider and
M^r Isaac Nicholls their Cases have been very untruly and
Artfully Represented unto his Lordship the Lord Prop^ry and
thereby given this further Occasion of Trouble to the Legis-
lature with an unnecessary additional Charge to Large Sums
of Money and Tobacco already Expended upon the frequent

Complaints of the Nanticoke and Choptank Indians in Rela-
tion to Injuries done them by the English and particularly
with Regard to the before mentioned Cases.
This Committee takes the Liberty of Observing that Cap^t
Rider hath Insinuated his Case as if his Right to the Lands
in Question had been prior to the Indian Title by Act of

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Assembly nor doth it Indeed Appear by the papers Laid be-
fore us whether the Indians had any Right att all to the Lands
at Chicowan before the time of his purchase and the Demise
in his Case mentioned, Whereas we find that the Indians
Titles According to an Alottment of Lands made them were
very Early preserved Either by the Act of the Lord Prop^ry
himself or by the publick Act of the Country, but it appeareth
that Cap^t Riders purchases were made so late as Anno 1713
and 1720, and have Reason to believe that the purchase