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

Lib. J. R.
& U. S.

Outten with those that were in Company with him went to
get their Horses in order to Return home but that sundry
Persons immediately came up Some with guns and some
with Clubs upon which a Little girl (which this Deponent
took to be a Daughter to the said John Willy) run to and
told the said John Willie that two or three Guns more were
come upon which the said Willie said he would and did go out
of his House and called out give me a Gun and I will shoot
the son of a Bitch upon which the said John Sharpe gave a
Gun to the said Willie and bid him shoot, upon which some
of the Company who had Come (as this Deponent supposeth)
to oppose the Sheriff called out if you shoot shoot him in the
Legs but Sharpe called out Damn him shoot him in the Body,
that the said John Willey went round the House with the Gun
in his hand in a very short time after which this Deponent
heard the report of the Gun when he went round the House &
there saw the said Outten lying on the Earth, having re-
ceived a wound on the Lower Part of his Belly and in about

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five or Six minuits expired that then Several Persons of
Willys party Walked up to the Corps as it Lay on the Earth
and rejoiced much at the Action one of Whom whose name
this Deponent doth not know said that it was a Well done
Action of Willey in Shooting the said Outten and that he
had saved him the Trouble of doing it himself and further
this Deponent Sayeth not
William Conaway
Taken and sworn the 8^th day of March 1759
before me, Rob^t Jenkins Henry

Maryland Worcester County to wit.
Moses Timmons of Worcester County aged Thirty years
and Upwards being sworn on the Holy Evangels of Almighty
God Deposeth as Follows. That on the sixth day of Feb-
ruary Last past this Deponent was Summoned by William
Outten Sub Sheriff to Benjamin Handy Esq^r High Sheriff
of the County aforesaid to Assist the said Outten in the
Execution of a precept, directed for the Execution of the said
Sheriff against a certain John Willey, that this Deponent
after his being Summoned as aforesaid was directed by the
said Outten to go with a certain Gerrard Hitchins to the
House of the said Willey and for him the said Hitchins to
take with him a Writt (which this Deponent from the Con-
versation that passed understood to be a Writt directing the
Sheriff of the said County to take the Body of the said
Willey) and directed the said Hitchins and this Deponent
that in Case they found Willey at Home that one of them
should Come out of the House of Willey and out of the Sight