SELECTED AND ARRANGED

FROM ORIGINAL DOCUMENTS

IN THE OFFICE OF THE

SECRETARY OF THE COMMONWEALTH,

CONFORMABLY TO ACTS

OF THE

GENERAL ASSEMBLY,

FEBRUARY 15, 1851, & MARCH 1, 1852,

BY

SAMUEL HAZARD.

COMMENCING 1760.

VOLUME IV.

PHILADELPHIA:

PRINTED BY JOSEPH SEVERNS & CO.

INDENTURE OF AGREEMENT, &C., BETWEEN LORD BALTIMORE AND THOS. AND RICH'D PENN, ESQR'S, 4TH JULY, 1760.

THIS INDENTURE, made the Fourth Day of July, in the Thirty-fourth year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Second, by the Grace of God, of Great Britain, France and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, and so forth, and in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and sixty, BETWEEN The Right Honourable FREDERICK, LORD BARON OF BALTIMORE, in the Kingdom of Ireland, only Son and Heir at Law, Devisee and Residuary Legatee of the Right Honourable Charles, late Lord Baltimore, deceased, and as such, or under some or one of the Settlements hereinafter mentioned, true and absolute Lord and Proprietary of the Province of MARYLAND, in America, of the one part, and THOMAS PENN and RICHARD PENN, Esquires, Sons and Devisees, under the Will of William Penn, Esquire, their late father, deceased, and true and absolute Proprietarys of the Province of PENSILVANIA, and Three Lower Counties of NEWCASTLE, KENT and SUSSEX, on Delaware, in America, of the other part. WHEREAS the said Frederick Lord Baltimore, under and by virtue of a certain Charter or Letters Patent, bearing date on or about the Twentieth Day of June, which was in the Eighth Year of the Reign of his late Majesty King Charles the First, and made and granted unto Cecelius then Baron of Baltimore, since deceased, the Great Grandfather of the said Frederick Lord Baltimore, and to his Heirs and assigns, stands seized of and well entitled unto the said Province of Maryland, bounded and described and restrained as in the said Charter is mentioned. AND WHEREAS the said Thomas Penn and Richard Penn, under and by virtue of a certain other Charter, or Letters Patent, bearing date on or about the Fourth Day of March, which was in the Thirty-third year of the Reign of His late Majesty King Charles the Second, and made and granted unto the said William Penn, since deceased, late Father of the said Thomas Penn and Richard Penn, and to his Heirs and Assigns, stand seized of and well entitled, unto the said Province of Pensilvania, bounded and described and restrained as in the said last mentioned Charter is expressed. AND ALSO, under and by virtue of three other Charters or Letters Patent, the first of the same bearing date on or about the Twelfth Day of March, which was in the Sixteenth Year of the Reign of the said late King Charles the Second; The second of the same bearing date on or about the Twenty-ninth day of June, which was in the Twenty-sixth Year of the Reign of his said late Majesty King Charles the Second; and the third of the same, bear

* This document was, by its length, excluded from its appropriate place, (page 741) of the preceding volume. It is now printed, after being compared with the original bulky parchment in the Secretary's Office at Harrisburg; the outer sheet, which is much torn and defaced, has been filled up from a recorded copy there. This is the foundation of the famous Mason & Dixon's line, so often referred to of late.