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

Lib. J. R.
& U. S.

enquired into and Determinable in this Government I think
it Adviseable for you as one of the Justices of the said County
of Worcester to call before you the Several persons under
mentioned who I am informed are proper Evidences upon
this Occasion & bind them by Recognizancis to Appear at
next Worcester County Court to give Evidence against the

said John Willey and also any persons that you may think

Material Evidences to Testify in regard to the Bounds and
Limits Between the Counties of Worcester and Sussex and
in my apprehension Francis Newbald John Polk and Some
Other of the eldest Settlers in that part of the County may

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give the best light into that matter and Likewise are knowing
of the place where the Fact was committed, and this in the
present Case seems necessary, because the Point of Jurisdic-
tion is likely to be in Question.
I make no Doubt of your doing every thing in your power
Consistent with your office yet as it is an uncommon affair I
think it my Duty to give this Intimation to you
& am Sir your Hble Servant
Gerrard Hitchins, Moses Timmons Rob' Jenkins Henry
John Kelty, William Winright,
Peter Dolby, William Conaway,
Levin Disharoon, John Outten
Elizabeth Long. p. S. Col^o John Dennis he will be at Court.
To M^r Joseph Collins in Worcester County.

A List of Persons Indicted by the Grand Jury at a Court
of quarter Sessions for the County of Sussex in February
Sessions 1759. Viz^t
Gerrard Hitchins, John Collins Son of Andrew Collins,
Moses Timtnonds John Kelly, William Winwright Peter
Dolby, Col^o John Dennis, William Connaway, Levin Disha-
rone John Wooten Eliz^a Long
In the Proceedings of Worcester County Court among
other things it is contained as followeth Viz^t
Worcester to wit, At a Court of his Lordship the Right
Honourable Frederick Absolute Lord and Proprietary of
the provinces of Maryland and Avalon Lord Baron of Balti-
more and so forth. Held at Snow hill Town in and for the
County aforesaid the first Tuesday of November to wit the
seventh day of the same month in the year of our Lord one
Thousand seven Hundred Fifty and Eight, Before John
Henry Esquire and his associates then our Justices of the
County aforesaid. The Grand Inquest for the Body of the
County, being Legally Impanneled and quallified present to
the Court the following Indictment by them found against
the several Persons hereafter named, the Tenor of which
Indictments are as followeth Viz^t