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Payment of Rent to L^d Baltimore or Taxes under his Gov-
ernment, though this is a Matter I wont assert, but have
given Directions to one of the Worcester Magistrates next
Adjacent to make Diligent enquiry, and if found true to take
proper Depositions and send them to me in order to be Trans-
mitted to your Excellency :
This Sir you may observe from the Deposition of John
Pollock, that the place where Willie lived, and the Murder

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committed was Surveyed by one William Shanklin Surveyor
of Sussex about five years ago, and by the Whole Scope of
the Depositions, is within the Ancient reputed Boundaries
of Maryland.
There are two persons to wit, John Sharpe and one Penn-
ington Welch who seem highly criminal in this matter who
are said to be Likewise retired into Sussex County for Pro-
tection, therefore it is to no purpose here to Issue process
against them, but presume when Instances are made for
Delivery up of Willey the Like will be also made for the
other two and by the best Intelligence I can gain Willie is so
Carelessly confined that he may make his Escape without
Difficulty.
Upon the whole those Borders seem in a very disturbed
Scituation and it would greatly contribute to the peace and
quiet of both Governments if their Limits were well Settled
but in the mean time the ancient reputed Ones ought to be
Submitted to.
Somerset County March 27. 1759. I am with all due Regard.
To his Excellency, the Governor Your Excellencys f aithf ull
of Maryland. and most obed^t Humble Serv^t
Rob^t Jenkins Henry

Somerset County Feb. 19^th 1759.
Sir
A day or two past I have received certain Intelligence that
one William Outten Sub Sheriff to Major Benjamin Handy
Sheriff of Worcester County in the Execution of his Office
has been Lately killed by one John Willy who has fled into the
County of Sussex, and delivered himself up there, in order to
be protected from the just Inquiry and Punishment that so
great an offence Demands in every civilized State & even in
the Case of Borderers, such savage Barbarities ought to be
Discouraged by the Civil Magistrate, and meet the Detesta-
tion of every person not void of common Humanity; and for
as much as I am informed that the above Fact has been
committed within the Reputed Bonds and Limits of Wor-
cester County and of consequence properly and legally to be

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