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MSA SC 5796-8-4
Collection	Potomac History (PotomacHistory website) Collection
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Dates	1876
Medium	Original
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Storage	Contact the Department of Special Collections for location.
Description
William Pinkney Whyte, Issac D. Jones. Evidence to Sustain the Claim of Maryland that the Charter to Lord Baltimore Granted to Him the Bed of the Potomac River and All the Islands in it, to the South-Western Bank of that River. [No standard on-line catalogue from the Library of Congress to the Harvard Law School Library, reveals a title as given here and as cited in MSA SC 5796-15-2, but it was found miscatalogued at the McKeldin Library of the University of Maryland, ironically under the name of the counsel for Virginia, Raleigh Travers Daniel, UMCP.MD RARSTK F187.B7B6. The U. of Md copy is presented below as evidence.tif. Here Maryland makes it abundantly clear that there is proof in the Maryland Land Office of Maryland's indisputable and long-standing claim to the waters and islands of the Potomac. Ecp 12/13/00] Virginia exhibit 122

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