Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1753-1761. 309

Given under my hand and the Seal of the Land office by
virtue of certain Powers from the Proprietaries at Philad^a
this fifth day of February Anno Domini 1747.

To William Parsons Surveyor General, Anthony Palmer
To William Shanklin Deputy Surveyor
Execute the above Warrant and make
Return thereof into the Sur. Gen^ls Office Tho^s Kean

The within Warrant is thus Assigned

For and in Consideration of the Sum of Fifteen pounds
Current money of Pensylvania to me in hand paid I do
hereby Assign and make over all my Right Title or Interest
of the within mentioned Warrant from me my heirs Execu-
tors Adm^rs or Assigns unto John Willey Jun^r Planter of
Dorchester County and Province of Maryland to him his
Heirs Executors Administrators or Assigns as Witness my
hand and Seal this fifth day of November Anno Domini 1755
Signed Sealed & Delivered Ephraim Polk [SS]
in the presence of us.

Thomas Russell
Jonathan Manlove

Copy
The Deposition of William Shanklin Deputy Surveyor.
Sussex on Delaware
William Shankland Deputy Land Surveyor of the County
aforesaid being Solemnly Sworn on the Holy Evangelists,
before us the Subscribing Justices, did Depose and say That

Lib. J, R.

& U. S.

the Within recited Warrant, and above Assignment are true
Copies taken from the warrant filed in his Office and that
Pursuant to the command of the said Warrant he did on the
twelf day of December in the year of our Lord 1749 Survey
and lay out for the Within named Ephraim Polk a certain
Tract of Land in Cedar Creek Hundred in the County afore-
said, scituate laying and being on the East Side of Gum
Branch and Adjoyning to the Land of a certain Thomas
Hammond, the Bounds and Courses of Which may fully
appear by the Plot of survey and Return by the Deponant
made into the Surveyor Generals Office at Philadelphia, the
which Tract is surveyed and laid out for Two Hundred and
Ninety Nine Acres and Ninety four perches of Land and
Branch on this 16 day of Feb^ry 1759.
Jurat Coram Nobis William Shankland
R^s Holt David Hall
Jacob Kollock Jacob Phillips

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