Scope and Contents

etter from John Hoskins Stone, the Governor of Maryland, Annapolis, Maryland to Robert Brooke, Governor of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia to transmit a copy of resolution passed by the Maryland General Assembly relative to the boundary line between the two states.

Scope and Contents Collection includes two official copies of Kentucky and Virginia's acts to confirm and establish a boundary line. The acts were fixed by Commissioners appointed by both states. Though the two acts serve similar purposes, they differ in how each Commissioner's report was written and rendered as official copies. The Kentucky document is dated 26 May 1803 and it has several discrete parts. It contains (1) a copy of the "Agreement between the commissioners of the states of Virginia...