Between 1687 and 1718 border disputes between Maryland and Pennsylvania were minimal. However, in 1721 a major border dispute began to erupt. Adam Short who lived on a tract of land called Green Meadows on the border of the Welsh Tract complained to the council of Maryland that he had been threatened by Davy Evans (of the Welsh Tract) and eight or ten additional men. They had threatened him with two horses harnessed to a log sledge and they demanded possession of his premises. He refused to relinquish them, but was then forced to leave and left seeking help from the local Maryland magistrate. In his absence, the intruders built a log cabin on his lands. Upon his return, he protested their actions. They ignored his protests, finished their cabin and gave this newly erected cabin to a man named Rice Jenkins. Outnumbered and overpowered, Adam Short finally relinquished Green Meadows to these intruders.
