The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1894-03-08

ports, roads Of shipping, estuaries,
fowings of water and arms of the
sea to the country or islands afore-
said belonging. A true translation.
Thomas Ealegne Tomlins, attor-
ney at law and record solicitor, No.
20 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London,
June ), 1871.
1t will be observed that the north
ern limits of Maryland, as described
in the charter was the 400 north
latitude where New England is
bounded or terminates and that it
extends from the Delaware bay with
the 400 to the meridian Of the first
fountain Of the Potomac. 1t is
proper to state here that the Ply
mouth Company or northern Nir
ginia colony had made no settle
ment up to 1920 and in that year a
new and enlarged charter had been
granted to the Duke Of LenoX and
others, who were denomlnated the
Plymouth Company conveying to
them III absolute property all the
lands between the 400 north latl-
tude. This company in 1927 con-
veyed to Henry Roosevelt and others
that territory which is now Massa-
chusctts, and in 1885 the Plymouth
Company surrendered its charter to
the Crown. In 1882 therefore the
southern boundary of the Plymouth
Company territory or Of New
England as it was called was the
400 north latitude and it was to
this line that Lord Baltlmore's
charter extended northward. The
territory described in the Maryland
charter also extended to the ocean
and the Delaware bay on the east.
WESTERN BOUNDARY OF MARY
LAND.
The western boundary was to be
ascertalned by following the 10th
degree TO the true meridian of the
first source OF the river Potomac
thence tending downward toward
the south to the further bank of
the SAID river and following it to
where 1t faces the western and
southern coast as far as to GER
tam place called Cinquack, stu
ated near the mouth Of the same
river where it discharges itself into
the forenamcd bay of Chesapeake.
1t will be observed that the whole
of the territory described in the
charter to Lord Baltimore was in
c,uded within the territory of the
Virginia charter of 1903. The Nir
ginia colony strenuously opposed
/ the granting of this charte! to Bal
timore and tried to have it revoked
after it was issued, claiming that
the territory belonged to Virginia
and that 1t was an unwarranted and
unlawful ACKNOWLEDGMENT of her do
main. The King referred the mat
ter to his Privy Council and the
controversy was heard by the coun-
4 Gil and on the 3rd day of July,
1888, they decided to leave Lord
Baltimore to his patent and the
other parties to the course OF the
land according to their desire.
NORTHERN NECK OF VIRGINIA.
On the 28th Of July, 1889, pc
tition by the governor and com
pauy Of London, for the plantation
/ of the Somer Isies-now Bermuda
Isles, addressed the lord of commits
sioner Of foreign plantations shows
that said CON pany was incorporated
/ about the year 1921, and the inhab-
itants were not able to subsist there
and sought another place. That
an agreement had been made be-
tween the company Of Virginia and
the petitioners when the latter pur-
chased the Somer Isles from the
former; that the petitioners should
receive large proportion of land
in Virginia, and they prayed for a
grant Of land situate and being be-
twiXt the two rivers of Rappahan-
mock and Potomack. This petition
shows that the Northern Neck, as
it is now called, was not then in
habited by English subjects, and
i that no grant thereof had yet passed
to any. This, with the enclosed
papers, was submitted to the lord S
commissioners on the 1st day of
August, 1859. Then August 3rd,
1868, came a letter from Charles II,
to the Governor and Council Of
Virginia, reciting that he had
granted to Henry, Lord Germlne,
now Earl of st, Adams, Ralph,
Lord Hopton and others, IN the
first year of his reign, by letters
patent under the great seal of
England, all that tract, territory or
portion of land in America, bound
ed by and within the heads of Tap
pahannock alias Rappahannock and
Querrough or Potomack rivers, the
sources of these rivers and Ches-
apeake bay, together with the rivers
themselves, and all the islands
within the banks of the said rivers