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hated the Quakers intensely,2T and was so unscrupulously
jealous of Virginia's rights that he made oath that Wat-
kins Point was above the month of the AanamesseGks and
not of the Pocomoke River; also, that the Pocotnoke had
never been known as the Wighco. This oath plainly
varied with Smith's map, which placed the point on the
mouth of the Wighco, which was undoubtedly the Poco-
moke River.
Remonstrance against Scarburgh's proceedings ("beat-
ing, abusing, and imprisoning the people of Annames-
secks and Monanoakin") was made June, i66q., by Gov-
ernor Calvert to Governor Berkley. The reply of Berk-
ley was that Scarburgh had no authority from him to
act alone or proceed by force. Governor Calvert ap-
pointed boundary commissioners, Philip Calvert and Je-
rome White, to meet similar commissioners appointed by
Virginia. Cm the date agreed upon, May io, 1664, all
the members of the Virginia Commission were not pres-
ent and no action was taken. Governor Calvert then sent
Philip Calvert, his Chancellor, in person to the Gov-
ernor and Council of Virginia. He was empowered to
treat concerning Watkins Point, to demand justice
against Scarburgh for attempting to mark a tree upon a
point of land thirty miles north of Watkins Point; also
for his conduct in Annamessecks and Monanoakin Zs
Furthermore he was to ask the Virginia Assembly not to
interfere in affairs concerning the government of Mary-
land.
The requests of Maryland were evidently heard, for we
find Philip Calvert on the part of Lord Baltimore's prov-
ince, and Cblonel Scarburgh on the part of Virginia, act-
ing as commissioners to determine the location of Watkins
27 Scarburgh calls some of these people " Creeping Quakers "
whose conscience would not serve to dwell amongst the wicked,"
and accuses them of gross ignorance and immorality. lbid., p. a26-
z3c.
' "Archives of Maryland, Proceedings of Council," i63Cm66y
PP, 496-y•
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