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SwAxSECvT8 (Swansecut) Creek, terminal of the Culvert-Scar--
burgh Line, I8.
TANGIER SOUND, its fisheries the subject of controversy, 38, 41;
divided by arbitrators, 43 ; exclusive ownership asserted by
Virginia, 45.
TAYLOR (John), boundary commissioner in 1795, 26.
THORNE (Copt. William), refuses to declare allegiance to Virginia,
16.
TYLER (Governor), corresponds with Governor Kent, 3o.
VIRGINIA, charters and grants, ch. I ; becomes a state and takes up
Fairfax's dispute, cedes territory to Maryland and title of
ceded territory disputed, 22-23 ; asserts claim to North
Branch and insists on beginning at Fairfax Stone, 29, 31;
her proposal to begin at Fairfax Stone accepted, 33 ; peti-
tions the Federal Government for a scientific survey of
boundaries, 38 ; claims the Potomac, 41; what she gained
and lost by the award, 43-44 ; asserts and is awarded ex-
clusive fishery rights in Pocomoke Sound, 45-51.
WALKER (Governor), corresponds with Governor Bowie and
asserts Virginia's claim to oyster fisheries, 45 46.
WASHINGTON (Bushrod), boundary commissioner in 1795, 26.
(General), compact of 1785 drawn in his parlor, 23.
WATERS (Levin S.), boundary commissioner in 1868, 37 ; in 1870,
39•
WATKINS POINT, designated in Maryland's charter, 1o-1I n; one
of the subjects of dispute, 13 ; discovered and named by
John Smith in i6o8, 16 ; located by a commission in 1663,
x5; Scarburgh's oath as to its location; situs determined
by first boundary commission, I8 ; its location in the com-
pact of 1785, 24; its location disputed in 1859, 36-37 ; its
southernmost and westernmost angles contended for, 37-
38, 41 ; arbitrators agree on southernmost, 43.
WATTS (William), boundary commissioner in 1870, 39.
WHARTON (Robert L.), prosecuted by Virginia, 49.
WHYTE (William Pinkney), counsel before Board of Arbitration,
42.
WIGHCo RIPER, mentioned in Maryland's charter, 11 n ; its
relative position to Watkins Point, 13 ; Scarburgh's oath
that it was never known as the Pocomoke,17 ; shown to be
identical with the Poconoke, I8 and map.
WISE (Henry A.), boundary commissioner in I87o, 39; presents
claims of Virginia, 4,a.
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