Boundary Line Between the States of Maryland Virginia
Boundary Line Between the States of Maryland Virginia
William Pinkney Whyte
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The General Assembly of Virginia doth hereby declare, that the territory of this commonwealth and the boundaries thereof, remain as they were after the said constitution was adopted on the 29th of June, 1776, except only as follows, that is to say : Then follows "Territory west of Ohio, &c. " The line then ran to Cinquack. There never was any difficulty as to the location of Cinquack. It is plainly marked on Smith's map, and Lord Baltimore's map in his "Relation, " and properly described in the... Virginia pro- clamation of Governor Harvey, of 1638, as being the great Wicomico River, and the starting place of the line across the Bay: Wise's Book, page 58 and 59; Proclamation 1638, page 15, Wise Book. After this Constitutional recognition, in 1777, the very next year, negotiations began for the settlement of all questions that might arise in relation to the water-lines between the two states, and under the management of commissioners representing each State, at Mount Vernon, the compact of 1785 was entered into; George Mason was one of Virginia's commissioners, and no one better knew her rights or was more ready to maintain them : see page 53 of Virginia's boundary-line.
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