The act for the suppression of the sect of Quakers was now extended to all separatists, and made still more rigorous. Persons attending their meetings were fined, for the first offence, two hundred pounds of tobacco; for the second, five hundred; and for the third, banished. In case the party convicted should be too poor to pay the fine, it was to be levied from such of his sect as might be possessed of ampler means. A Mr. Durand, elder in a Puritan "very orthodox church," in Nansemond County, had been banished from Virginia in 1648. In 1662, the Yeopim Indians granted to "George Durant" the neck of land in North Carolina which still bears his name. He was probably the exile. In April, 1663, George Cathmaid claimed from Governor Berkley a large tract of land on the borders of Albemarle Sound, in reward of having colonized a number of settlers in that province. In the same year Sir William Berkley was commissioned to organize a government over this newly settled region, which, in honor of the perfidious General Monk, now made Duke of Albemarle, received the name which time has transferred to the Sound. FOOTNOTES: [249:A] "Leah and Rachel," published at London in 1656, in Force's Historical Tracts, iii. [250:A] Virginia's Cure, (_Force's Hist. Tracts_, iii.,) printed at London, 1662, and composed by a minister. The initials on the title-page, R. G. He appears to have taken refuge in Virginia during the Commonwealth of England; and it is evident that he had resided in the colony for a considerable time. "Virginia's Cure" is addressed to the Bishop of London: it is a clear and vigorous document, acrimonious toward the late government, but earnest in behalf of the spiritual welfare of Virginia. [250:B] Hening, ii. 33. [252:A] Hening, i. 435. [253:A] Hening, i. 398, 418. [253:B] Ibid., i. 545, and ii. 9. [253:C] Ibid., ii. 24. [254:A] Hist. of Virginia, second edition. [254:B] Beverley, B. i. 43; Chalmers' Revolt, i. 101. [255:A] Ibid., 44. [255:B] Hening, ii. 69. [256:A] Hening, ii. 138. [257:A] Hening, ii. 158. [258:A] MS. (Virginia) in State Paper office, (London,) cited in Anderson's Hist. of Colonial Church, ii. 548-9. CHAPTER XXVIII. 1663. Report of Edmund Scarburgh, Surveyor-General, of his Proceedings in establishing the Boundary Line between Virginia and Maryland on the Eastern Shore--The Bear and the Cub-- Extracts from Records of Accomac.