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Proclamation¹⁹
By his Excellency the Capt Generall of Maryland

" To all the Inhabitants of the said Province or Others whom these may
concerne Charles Calvert Esqr Capt Generall of the said Province sendeth
Greeting Know yee That whereas severall persons are already seated within
the limitations hereafter mentioned and aswell for the preservation of the
peace in that part of the province as for the ease and benefitt of the Inhabi-
tants there or which shall hereafter inhabite there I doe hereby declare &
publish that from the mouth of the Susquehanough River and so downe the
easterne side of Chesepeake Bay to Swan point and from thence to Hell point
and so up Chester River to the head thereof is hereby erected into a County
and called by the name of Cecill County. And I doe hereby further declare
that the Southerne bounds of Baltemore County be the South side of Potapsco
River and from the highest plantation, on that side of the River due south
two miles into the woods And that the north side of Petuxent River begin-
ing at the north side of Lynns Creeke be adjoyned to Ann Arrundell County
And that the Sheriffs of the severall respective Countyes of Cecill, Baltemore,
Ann Arrundell and Calvert make proclamation hereof in their said Countys
respectively and imediately after proclamation Coppy hereof affix at the
Court house doore of their respective Countyes In wittnes whereof I have
hereunto sett my hand and caused the lesser Seale of this province to be
hereunto affixed the sixth day of June in the 42th yeare of the Dominion of
Cecilius &c Annoq Dom 1674                                                   Charles Calvert

To Nathaniel Stiles High Sheriff of Cecill County "

The area thus included would embrace practically all of what is now
Kent County. This was more than Baltimore County had included
prior to the proclamation. Moreover, it contained Yarmouth town,
where at times the Kent County Court had been held. Such a cur-
tailment of territory, embracing some of the more populous districts,
was apparently too much for the Kent countians. The Governor was
quickly appraised of his error and within two weeks issued the following,
supplemental proclamation:

" By the Capt Generall of Maryland²⁰

" fforasmuch as by a late Proclamation beareing date the sixth day of
this instant June some Additions were made to severall Countys upon the
division of that of Baltemore County and by the same proclamation it was
then declared that Swan Point downe to Hell point on Chester River should
be and remaine for the future belonging to that Easterne. side of the Bay
lately erected and called by the name of Cecill County upon further con-
sideration hereof it is thought most necessary that so much of the Easterne

¹⁹ Md. Arch., 15: 39.

²⁰ Md. Arch., 15: 41.