512 HISTORY OF 



A. p. 93. 



Thomas and Richard Pkxx surviving proprietors of the province of 

 Pennsylvania entered, July 4, 1760, with Lord Baltimore into a definite agree- 

 ment touching the final adjustment of the boundary line betw'een Maryland 

 and Pennsylvania. Commissioners were appointed for that purpose. Those 

 for Maryland were Horatia Sharpe, 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 Holt, George 

 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 

 Board ley, George Stuart, Daniel of St. Thomas Jenifer, and John Beala 

 Boardley. To sup})ly vacancies on part of Pennsylvania, Rev. John Ewing, 

 William Coleman, Edward Shippen and Thomas Willing. 



The commissioners convened at New Castle, Nov. 19, 1760, and after 

 much deliberation 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 sul ject 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 Prown, and James Barnes, in Drumore township, and 

 by James M'Sparran, Jeremiah and Slater Brown, James A. Caldwell, Nich- 

 olas Bcyde, Timothy Haines, Allen Cook, Robert Maxwell, WiUiam Cook 

 and others ot Little Britain township, were, we have been informed, all taken 

 up under Maryland warrants. 



B. p. 39. 



Jamks Le Tout was according to R. Conyngham, Esq., a French Hugue- 

 not, 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 Uved on or near 

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

 in 1719. From the Colonial Records, vol. II. p. 100 — it seems he came to 

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

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

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

 Valley as e?.rly as 1731, and settled at Le Tort's spring near Carlisle, 



