304 Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1681-85/6.

Lib. R. R. R.

Philim Murry to keepe X^tina ffort.

Ordered that Cornett Philim Murry late und^r Coll George
Talbott at Christina ffort be and he is hereby commanded to
keepe and maintaine the said ffort and pursue therein the
Instructions given him by the said Coll Talbott untill further
ord^rs from this board:

Dep^ty Survey^rs ord^r cone: them

Coll George Talbott late Surveyo^r Gen^ll of this Province,
being by meanes of the late unhappy murder of M^r Christo-
pher Rousby disabled from executeing the said Office, & his
Dep^tJI in the severall Counties of this Province being conse-
quently also uncapacitated to Officiate in their severall places.
It was thereupon ordered that Inquiry be made at the Office
what expedient hath been taken, in the time of vacancy of a
Survey^r Gen^ll and that the same (if any) be now observed
otherwise that the severall Deputy Survey" Commissions be
renewed by the Deputies Govern" for the space of 3 moneths
& soe from time to time, untill further ord^rs

Then read & ordered to be entred the severall Depositions
foll (viz:)

W^m Dolberys Depos: cone: Cap^t Allen.

William Dolbery Ma^r of the ship Sarum M^rchant of Poole
aged fourty yeares or thereabouts upon oath Examined saith
and Deposeth as followeth viz:
October the 30^th last past about 3 mile off from Cedar point
I espied a Ketch, and before I could certainly know that it
was the Kings Ketch, he fired a gunn with a shott, at which I
struck my top sayles, and he sent his boate and commanded
me aboard with my Cocketts and freedom, the which he
examined, and in goeing into Pottuxent River wee pass'd by
a Plymouth man, and he likewise Commanded him on board,
and in a small time he came, he asked him for his Cocketts,
he told him he had been with Majo^r Sewall, and left them

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there, he told him that if he would not goe ashoare and fetch
them again, and come and shew them to him, and goe &
cleare with M^r Rousby the Kings Collecto^r he would seize his
shipp, and further saith not
W^m Dolbery

Novemb 2^d Being Saturday in the morning Capt: Allen
Comand^r of the Ketch sent for me on board the Ketch, and
desired me to goe ashore with his Brother and M^r Rousbys