558 Assembly Proceedings, April 23-June 5, 1740.

L. H. J.
Lib. No. 46
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D. 200]

We likewise find that At A Session of Assembly began and held
at the City of St Marys on the 13^th day of April Anno Domini 1669
among other Acts, An Act then past granting unto the Ababco,
Hutsawap and Tequassimo Indians, and the People under their
Government or Charge, and their Heirs for ever a certain quantity
of Land lying on the South Side of Great Choptank River bounded
as by the said Act relation being thereunto had may fully and at large
appear.
We also find by the Depositions of several Persons taken by Virtue
of a Commission out of the high Court of Chancery, as also by the
Platt of the Indians Lands hereunto annexed that if the distance on
the Second Course mentioned in the said Survey, terminates at the
head of Sewalls Creek, that then there will be the quantity of 1396
Acres of the Land called Darby in the Limits of the Indian Bounds,
exclusive of Water, and the Land called the Indian Neck, containing
and laid out for 600 Acres, for which said Indian Neck Major
Nicholas Sewall in his Life time (to wit in October 1722), received
from the Country full Satisfaction But if the Petitioner be allowed to
run his full and exact distance mentioned in the Certificate of the said
Survey, which is 640 Perches then there will be 636 Acres more

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included in the said Survey of Darby which will amount in the whole
to 2032 Acres exclusive of Water and the Indian Neck
It does not appear to your Committee that either the said Nicholas
Sewall in his Life time or the Executors of the said Nicholas since
his death have received any Consideration for the Land called Darby
more than the abovementioned 600 Acres called Indian Neck
All which Your Committee humbly submits to the Consideration
of the House
Signed p Order Thomas Jennings Cl Com.

The House Adjourns to the Morrow Morning at nine of the Clock

May 20

Tuesday Morning May 20^th 1740

The House met according to Adjournment
The following Message (See page 475.)
Sent to the Upper House by Col^o King and Col^o Colvill
Benjamin Tasker Esq^r from the Upper House delivers M^r Speaker
the following Message (See page 476.)
The Conferees of this House withdraw to meet those appointed by
the Upper House
The House Adjourns to two of the Clock in the Afternoon