376 Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1721.

             Lib. x.   house and making fence Rails and by planting small Apple

                  Trees in a Nursery

                   This Depondent further saith that on the 14th day of Feb

                  ruary last past Mr David Evans with a Company of men con

                  sisting of 8 or 10 or more in an unlawful manner most of them

                  having a falling ax in his hand and having with them two

                  Horses Harnessed drawing a Logg Sledd came to the plan-

               p. 24   tation of this deponent who seing such a Company Coming

                  to his House Imagined they had some design of forcing his

                  possession whereupon he this deponent immediately naild up

                  the door of one out house and stood in the door way of an

                  other house which was the dwelling house, this Deponent

                  further declareth that Mr Evans and his Company being come

                  up to the house Mr Evans demanded of this deponent if he

                  kept possession there, to which this deponent answered in the

                  Affirmative, then Mr Duval Evans applying to the By standers

                  to take notice of what he said, told this deponent, that he

                  warned him before all those people to come out of the house,

                  to which this deponent replied that he would not, and he the

                  said Evans askd this deponent who he pretended to hold his

                  Land under, he replied my Lord Baltimore, and that he

                  owned no Body else to be his Landlord, he the said

                  Evans then required this deponent a second time to

                  Come out of the house, and then turning about and

                  talking welch to his Company, they went immediately to

                  cutting the Trees that this deponent had fallen with a design

                  to build a Log House and drew in some of them near to the

                  house of this deponent, with a design as he thought to build

                  a house there, upon which this deponent went immediately to

                  a Justice of Peace of Cecil County, but finding no relief that

                  way, returnd again to his plantation and found that Company

                  so expeditious in building a Logg House that they had al

                  ready raised it all round three Logs high before this deponent

                  returned back he further deposeth that seing what they were

                  about he forewarned the said Evans & his Company from

                  Cutting his Wood and Committing any further Trespass upon

                  his Land, I dont mind you replied Evans, we will try that so

                  they finish'd the house and Gave Possession to one Rice

                  Ienkin

               P. 25   This Deponent further saith that being reflected upon and

                  abused by the Builders of that house, and foreseeing that if

                  he staid to keep possession there, he coud make no Crop and

                  must necessarily be a great Sufferer at his plantation upon

                  Christina he withdrew thence, and this Deponent further saith

                  when he went from his Tenement upon the Tract of Land

                  aforesaid called Green Meadows, that he Nailed up the Door

                  of the Outhouse aforesaid, and Barred up the door of the