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402 HISTORY OF MARYLAND.
Appointed by themselves without the knowledge of the Lord Baltimore or any Body
concerned in the management of his Affairs, and gave out that they would maintain the
Limits made and Boundaries so marked, at all events. This Conduct, may it please your
Majesty, Occasioned new Incroachments, which were supported by Force and Violence,
such as the Imprisonment and ruin of some of your Majesty's Subjects, who had the
Misfortune of setting on the northern parts of Maryland, bordering on Pennsylvania, to
the great Terror of such others who had the good Fortune to escape such severities, to
prevent which Violences and to secure the peace and Property of your Majesty's Subjects
until the Bounds of the two Provinces could be settled, so as to end all disputes Concerning them, this Government offered to join with the Government of Pennsylvania in an
humble address to your Majesty for the fixing Our Limits and determining our Differences, and to prohibit any Person from settling and encroaching in the meantime further
to the northward or southward of the then respective Settlements in each province, but
the Government of Pennsylvania was not pleased to concur in such measures, which
must have Greatly added to the happiness of all, and saved the Live3 of some of your
Majesty's Subjects.
" Then, may it please your Majesty, the Lord Proprietary of this Province became
apprehensive of the Consequences of such Unwillingness in the Government of Pennsylvania, to that Peace and Good will which your Majesty so Gloriously defends and
preserves to your Subjects, and most justly respects and Commands should be observed
amongst them, and in Compliance with his Duty to your Majesty in the safety and
Preservation of us, your Majesty's Subjects, under his Government, as well as in maintenance of his own right and Property, his Lordship our Lord Proprietary did, by his most
humble petition to your Majesty, set forth his Title to this Province under the said Charter,
and for the Reasons in the said Petition mentioned, his Lordship most humbly prayed
your Majesty's further Charter or Letters Patent to Confirm the whole of the Tract of
Land called a Peninsula in the said Charter to his Lordship, which petition your Majesty
was most Graciously pleased to refer to the Consideration of your Majesty's Lords Commissioners for Trade and Plantations, upon which their Lordships having made their
Report to your Majesty, your Majesty was most Graciously pleased to refer the same to
the right Honorable the Lords of Committee of Council for Plantation affairs, and their
Lordship's were pleased to report to your Majesty that your Majesty having been pleased
to refer unto that Committee a Report made by the Lord's Commissioners for trade and
Plantations upon the Petition of Charles, Lord Baltimore, praying for a Grant of Confirmation of such part of a Peninsula in America as is contained within the Limits of the
Charter granted to his Ancestors in the Reign of King Charles the first, notwithstanding
the words Hactenus ineulta, which are inserted in the Recital of the said Charter, and that
your Majesty, having been pleased likewise to Refer unto that Committee two petitions,
the one in the name of Richard Penn, Esq., the youngest surviving Son of William Penn,
Esq., deceased, in Behalf of himself and his two Elder Brothers, John and Thomas Penn,
Esqs., then in Pennsylvania, setting forth their right to the three Lower Counties of New
Castle, Kent and Sussex, lying within and Contiguous to the said Peninsula, and therefore
praying to be heard against confirming the said Peninsula to the Lord Baltimore, and the
other in the name of the People called Quakers, inhabitants of the said three Lower Counties, praying also to be heard against Confirming the said Lands to the Lord Baltimore; that
their Lordships took the said Report and Petitions into their Consideration, and were
attended by Council, as well for the Lord Baltimore as the other petitioners; and
that, it appearing that on the 10th of May, 1732, Articles of Agreement had been entered
into between the Lord Baltimore and the said John Thomas and Richard Penn, for
adjusting the boundaries of the Land Granted to them by their respective Charters,
which Articles had not been carried into Execution within the time thereby Limited,
but notwithstanding such Lapse of time, the Validity of the said articles being insisted
Object Description
| 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 |
Description
| Title | 00000431 |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Transcript | 402 HISTORY OF MARYLAND. Appointed by themselves without the knowledge of the Lord Baltimore or any Body concerned in the management of his Affairs, and gave out that they would maintain the Limits made and Boundaries so marked, at all events. This Conduct, may it please your Majesty, Occasioned new Incroachments, which were supported by Force and Violence, such as the Imprisonment and ruin of some of your Majesty's Subjects, who had the Misfortune of setting on the northern parts of Maryland, bordering on Pennsylvania, to the great Terror of such others who had the good Fortune to escape such severities, to prevent which Violences and to secure the peace and Property of your Majesty's Subjects until the Bounds of the two Provinces could be settled, so as to end all disputes Concerning them, this Government offered to join with the Government of Pennsylvania in an humble address to your Majesty for the fixing Our Limits and determining our Differences, and to prohibit any Person from settling and encroaching in the meantime further to the northward or southward of the then respective Settlements in each province, but the Government of Pennsylvania was not pleased to concur in such measures, which must have Greatly added to the happiness of all, and saved the Live3 of some of your Majesty's Subjects. " Then, may it please your Majesty, the Lord Proprietary of this Province became apprehensive of the Consequences of such Unwillingness in the Government of Pennsylvania, to that Peace and Good will which your Majesty so Gloriously defends and preserves to your Subjects, and most justly respects and Commands should be observed amongst them, and in Compliance with his Duty to your Majesty in the safety and Preservation of us, your Majesty's Subjects, under his Government, as well as in maintenance of his own right and Property, his Lordship our Lord Proprietary did, by his most humble petition to your Majesty, set forth his Title to this Province under the said Charter, and for the Reasons in the said Petition mentioned, his Lordship most humbly prayed your Majesty's further Charter or Letters Patent to Confirm the whole of the Tract of Land called a Peninsula in the said Charter to his Lordship, which petition your Majesty was most Graciously pleased to refer to the Consideration of your Majesty's Lords Commissioners for Trade and Plantations, upon which their Lordships having made their Report to your Majesty, your Majesty was most Graciously pleased to refer the same to the right Honorable the Lords of Committee of Council for Plantation affairs, and their Lordship's were pleased to report to your Majesty that your Majesty having been pleased to refer unto that Committee a Report made by the Lord's Commissioners for trade and Plantations upon the Petition of Charles, Lord Baltimore, praying for a Grant of Confirmation of such part of a Peninsula in America as is contained within the Limits of the Charter granted to his Ancestors in the Reign of King Charles the first, notwithstanding the words Hactenus ineulta, which are inserted in the Recital of the said Charter, and that your Majesty, having been pleased likewise to Refer unto that Committee two petitions, the one in the name of Richard Penn, Esq., the youngest surviving Son of William Penn, Esq., deceased, in Behalf of himself and his two Elder Brothers, John and Thomas Penn, Esqs., then in Pennsylvania, setting forth their right to the three Lower Counties of New Castle, Kent and Sussex, lying within and Contiguous to the said Peninsula, and therefore praying to be heard against confirming the said Peninsula to the Lord Baltimore, and the other in the name of the People called Quakers, inhabitants of the said three Lower Counties, praying also to be heard against Confirming the said Lands to the Lord Baltimore; that their Lordships took the said Report and Petitions into their Consideration, and were attended by Council, as well for the Lord Baltimore as the other petitioners; and that, it appearing that on the 10th of May, 1732, Articles of Agreement had been entered into between the Lord Baltimore and the said John Thomas and Richard Penn, for adjusting the boundaries of the Land Granted to them by their respective Charters, which Articles had not been carried into Execution within the time thereby Limited, but notwithstanding such Lapse of time, the Validity of the said articles being insisted |
