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moved that the Justices of Kent County should be wrote to for a more 

 particular account of this matter, and that they should be cautioned to 

 use their utmost endeavors to prevent all broils with our neighbors of 

 Maryland, it was recommended to the Governor to give the necessary 

 directions herein. 



This correspondence is very volumnious, but hardly necessary to be 

 transferred to our columns, as it narrates only the beginning of troubles 

 which for a long time remained uncomposed. 



At a Council held at Philadelphia, Oct. -ith, 1738. 



present: 



The Hon. Patrick Gordon, Esqr. Lieut. Governor, etc. 



A return of the high road layed out from the town of Lancaster in the 

 county of Lancaster, pursuant to an order of this Board, bearing date 

 the 29th day of Januarj^, 1730-1, being this day read in these words: 



"To the Honourable Patrick Gordon, Esqr., Lieut. Governor of the 

 Province of Pennsylvania, in Council. 



"Whereas, upon the petition of the Magistrates, Grand Jury and 

 other Inhabitants of the county of Lancaster, presented to the Govern- 

 or in Council, praying ' that proper persons might be appointed to view 

 and lay out a road for the public service, from the town of Lancas- 

 ter, till it should fall in with ye high road leading to the Ferry of Schuyl- 

 kill, at High street, and that a review might be had of the said Public 

 Eoad in the county of Chester. 



"The prayer of which petition being granted, it was ordered that 

 Thomas Edwards, Edward Smout, Eobert Barber, Hance Graaff, Caleb 

 Pierce, Samuel Jones and Andrew Cornish, of the county aforesaid, or 

 any five of them, should view and lay out by course and distance, a con- 

 venient high road, from the town of Lancaster, to the Division Line be- 

 tween the said county, and the county of Chester, and that Thomas 

 Green, George Aston, William Paschall, Richard Buffington, William 

 Marsh, Samuel Miller, and Robert Parke, of the county of Chester, or 

 any five of them, should then join the above named persons of Lancaster 

 county, or any five of them, in continuing to lay out the said road from 

 the Division Line aforesaid, till it should fall in with the King's high 

 road, in the county of Chester, leading to Philadelphia, and make return 

 thereof to that Board. 



"And the above named persons were also impowered jointly to review 

 the said high Road within the county of Chester, and report the altera- 

 tions necessary to be made therein. 



" Now these may certify, that pursuant to the said petition and order, 

 Thomas Edwards, Edward Smout, Robert Barber, Hance Graaff and 

 Samuel Jones, of the said county of Lancaster, met at the town of Lan- 



