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250 HISTORY OF MARYLAND.
find not agreeing, to both Lords Proprietors or sovereigns in Europe."
The council, consisting of Captain William Stone, Thomas Gerrard, Luke
Barber, Colonel Nathaniel Utie, Baker Brooke and Edward Lloyd, after the
commissioners withdrew " resolved, that the business be forthwith taken into
debate, and that they would have an answer ready by Saturday, the 18th, at
5 o'clock P. M.," and then adjourned till next day, the 19th, when they met
and " after a long debate considering his lordship's instructions and order
were only to give the Dutch warning to be gone, that when we are able to
beat them out they may not plead ignorance, resolved, that answer be given
in writing, by way of letter directed to the general of the Manhattans, in
these words, viz.:
" Honourable lords—We have received your letters of credence by the hands of Sirs
Augustine Herman and Resolved Waldron, your ambassadors, wherein, as we find many
expressions of love and amity, so we account ourselves obliged to return you real thanks in
unfolding the causes of that which it seems hath been the reason of your astonishment
and wonder, and as the matter shall permit, give you that satisfaction which with reason
you can expect, and which we likewise shall exact from you in the rendering to us as
substitutes of the right honourable Cecilius, lord baron of Baltimore, lord and proprietary
of this province, &c, that part of his lordship's province lying in Delaware Bay, to us
entrusted, and by you (as it seems) injuriously seated, in prejudice to his lordship's just
right and title. . . . For answer, therefore, unto your demands by your said
agents made, we say, that Colonel Nathaniel Utie was by us, in pursuance of a command
from the right honourable lord proprietary, ordered to make his repair to a certain people
seated upon Delaware Bay, within the 40th degree of northerly latitude from the equinoctial line, to let them know that they were residing within our jurisdiction without
our knowledge, much more, without our license, without grant of land from, or oath of
fidelity to his lordship taken, both which are expressly, by his conditions of plantation
and laws to all comers here to inhabit, conditioned and enjoined; and further, to offer
unto them such conditions, in case they intended there to stay, as we ourselves enjoy.
But in case of refusal and abode there made, to let them know we should use lawful
means to reduce them to that obedience which all people within the degree aforesaid are
bound to yield unto us, intrusted within this province by the right honourable the Lord
Baltimore, sole and absolute lord and proprietary of the same, by patent under the great
seal of England, bearing date 20th of June, in the year of our Lord God 1632, (?) and
since by act of parliament confirmed; (a copy whereof we have shown to your said
ambassadors;) and since you, by your writing, as well as by your ambassadors, seem to
insinuate that the said colony in Delaware Bay is seated there by and under your
command, we do protest as well against them and you, as against all other persons, either
principals or abettors in the said intrusion upon our bounds and confines. Our damages
and costs in due time, and by all lawful means, to recover, which we either have or shall
at any time hereafter chance to sustain by the recovery of that place so seated within our
bounds and limits, and injuriously by you detained.
" The original rights of the kings of England to these countries and territories, must
be our endeavour to maintain, not our discourse to controvert, or in the least our attempt
to yield up, as being that which we can neither accept from any other power, nor yield
up to any other authority without the consent of our supreme magistracy, their
successors in the dominion of England. Though we cannot but mind you that it is
no difficult matter to show that your pretended title to that part of this province where
those people, (now, if at all, the first time owned by the high and mighty States to be in
| Title | History of Maryland - 1 |
| Creator | Scharf, J. Thomas (John Thomas) |
| Publisher | J. B. Piet |
| Place of Publication | Baltimore |
| Date | 1879 |
| Language | eng |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Title | 00000275 |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Transcript | 250 HISTORY OF MARYLAND. find not agreeing, to both Lords Proprietors or sovereigns in Europe." The council, consisting of Captain William Stone, Thomas Gerrard, Luke Barber, Colonel Nathaniel Utie, Baker Brooke and Edward Lloyd, after the commissioners withdrew " resolved, that the business be forthwith taken into debate, and that they would have an answer ready by Saturday, the 18th, at 5 o'clock P. M.," and then adjourned till next day, the 19th, when they met and " after a long debate considering his lordship's instructions and order were only to give the Dutch warning to be gone, that when we are able to beat them out they may not plead ignorance, resolved, that answer be given in writing, by way of letter directed to the general of the Manhattans, in these words, viz.: " Honourable lords—We have received your letters of credence by the hands of Sirs Augustine Herman and Resolved Waldron, your ambassadors, wherein, as we find many expressions of love and amity, so we account ourselves obliged to return you real thanks in unfolding the causes of that which it seems hath been the reason of your astonishment and wonder, and as the matter shall permit, give you that satisfaction which with reason you can expect, and which we likewise shall exact from you in the rendering to us as substitutes of the right honourable Cecilius, lord baron of Baltimore, lord and proprietary of this province, &c, that part of his lordship's province lying in Delaware Bay, to us entrusted, and by you (as it seems) injuriously seated, in prejudice to his lordship's just right and title. . . . For answer, therefore, unto your demands by your said agents made, we say, that Colonel Nathaniel Utie was by us, in pursuance of a command from the right honourable lord proprietary, ordered to make his repair to a certain people seated upon Delaware Bay, within the 40th degree of northerly latitude from the equinoctial line, to let them know that they were residing within our jurisdiction without our knowledge, much more, without our license, without grant of land from, or oath of fidelity to his lordship taken, both which are expressly, by his conditions of plantation and laws to all comers here to inhabit, conditioned and enjoined; and further, to offer unto them such conditions, in case they intended there to stay, as we ourselves enjoy. But in case of refusal and abode there made, to let them know we should use lawful means to reduce them to that obedience which all people within the degree aforesaid are bound to yield unto us, intrusted within this province by the right honourable the Lord Baltimore, sole and absolute lord and proprietary of the same, by patent under the great seal of England, bearing date 20th of June, in the year of our Lord God 1632, (?) and since by act of parliament confirmed; (a copy whereof we have shown to your said ambassadors;) and since you, by your writing, as well as by your ambassadors, seem to insinuate that the said colony in Delaware Bay is seated there by and under your command, we do protest as well against them and you, as against all other persons, either principals or abettors in the said intrusion upon our bounds and confines. Our damages and costs in due time, and by all lawful means, to recover, which we either have or shall at any time hereafter chance to sustain by the recovery of that place so seated within our bounds and limits, and injuriously by you detained. " The original rights of the kings of England to these countries and territories, must be our endeavour to maintain, not our discourse to controvert, or in the least our attempt to yield up, as being that which we can neither accept from any other power, nor yield up to any other authority without the consent of our supreme magistracy, their successors in the dominion of England. Though we cannot but mind you that it is no difficult matter to show that your pretended title to that part of this province where those people, (now, if at all, the first time owned by the high and mighty States to be in |
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