Communication From the Governor of Virginia Transmitting Report of the Commissio
Communication From the Governor of Virginia Transmitting Report of the Commissio
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southernmost bounds on the Eastern Shore is situate. This Grand Assembly by the care and special inquiry of five able selected Surveyors and two Burgesses, and the due examination thereof, conclude the same place of Watkins' Point to be the North side of Wicocommico river, on the Eastern Shore, and near unto and on the South side of the Straight Lymbo, opposite the Patuxent river, which place, according to Captain John Smith, and discoverers with him in the year 1608, was so named, being, the L...ord Baltimore's bounds on the Eastern Shore, within which bounds his majesties siJbjects that are now seated, are hereby commanded to yield due obedience at their perils. " Col. Edmund Scarburg and two others were appointed to confer with the Maryland authorities, and in the meantime "all inhabitants on the . Eastern Shore as aforesaid, are required in his majesties name to conform due obedience to this act of assembly. " Acting or assuming to act under the orders so given by the grand assembly of Virginia, Colonel Scarburg, in October, 1663, taking with him about forty horsemen "for pomp and safety, ^'' went to Annamesseks and Manoaken, and proceeded in the moSt arbitrary manner to take possession of the country up to Manoakin, and to require all the inhabitants to "subscribe obedience" to his majesty according to the Virginia act of assembly ; setting the "broad arrow, ^' the mark of confiscation, on the doors of all who refused or asserted any right in Lord Baltimore to any jurisdiction south of the place claimed by Virginia in this act, to bfe Loi'd Baltimore's southei-n boundary.
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