518 HISTORY OP 



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A. r- ?3. 



Tuo.MAS and RiciiAnn Pr.w surviving proprietors of the province of 

 Pennsylvania entered, July 4, 17C0, with Lord Baltimore into a definite agree- 

 ment touching the final adjustment of the boundary Une between Maryland 

 and Pennsylvania. Commissioners were appointed for that purpose. Tiiose 

 for Maryland were Horatia 8harpe, Benjamin Tasker, Jr., Edward Lloyd, 

 Robert Jenkins Henry, Daniel Dulany, Stephen Bordley, Rev. Alexander 

 Malcolm; on the part of Pennsylvania, the Hon. James Hamilton, William 

 Allen, Richard Peters, Benjamin Chew,Lynford Lardner, Ryves HoltjGcorga 

 Stephenson. 



While the committee was engaged in their labors, the following persons 

 were appointed on the part of Maryland to supply vacancies, the Rev. John 

 Boardlcy, George Stuart, Daniel of St. Thomas Jenifer, and John Bcale 

 Boardlry. To supply vacancies on part of Pennsylvania, Rev. John Ewing, 

 V>'illiam Coleman, Edward Shi|)pcn and Thomas Willing. 



Tiie commissioners convened at Now Castle, Nov. 19, 1760, and after 

 much dtliberalion made a final report the 9th Nov. 1763. The whole of 

 their transactions have been faithfully recorded, and the document been pre- 

 served. In 1762, Charles Ma^on and Jeremiah Dixon were employed to 

 run the line, and put an end to a subject of early and continued warm con- 

 troversy. 



Before the final adjustment of this vexed question, and the definiteness of 

 the line, many had taken up lands under Maryland warrants. The lands 

 now owned by David Brown, and James Barnes, in Drumore township, and 

 by James i^PSparran, Jeremiah and Slater Biown, James A. Caldwell, Nich- 

 olas Boyde, 'i'imothy Hair.es, Allen Cook, Robfrt Maxwell, William Cook 

 and others ol Little Britain towr;ship, were, we have been informed, all taken 

 up under .Maryland warrants. 



B. p. 39. 



Jamks LeTout was according to R. Coni/nghain, Esq., a French Huguc- 

 ni)t, and member of the French settlement on the Schuylkill; living among 

 the Indians, he acquired a knowledge of their language, and was useful to 

 the government as an Indian agent and interpreter. He lived on or near 

 the banks of the Susquehanna, within the present limits of Lancaster county 

 in 1719. From the Colonial Reconls, vol. II. j). 100 — it seems he came to 

 this country when (juite young. " Having been bred in it from his infancy," 

 and from p. 123,it appears he had been at Conestoga pviorto 1703; and accord- 

 ing to Hazzard's Register, vol. XV. p. 82, he penetrated to Cumberland 

 Valley as c irly rs 1731, and :ictt!cd at Le Tori's spring near Carlisle. 



