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from them, the Sheriffs taking fees of them for the Quit Rents
has alarmed them very much and ( as Severall of them have
declared to and in the hearing of this Deponant) that they
were affraid of the same Equal Oppressions with those which
Induced them to Leave their Native Country, & that to avoid
it they would go from hence.
Joseph Ogle.
May 10^th 1748 Sworn before me
John Darnall

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Several other Depositions to the same Effect being read at
the Board, and the Sheriff of Prince Georges County and the
Farmer of the Quit Rents attending, His Excellency is pleased
to recommend to the Sheriff that he be very careful in exact-
ing no fees from the People nor taking any but what are
warranted by Law; And to the Farmers that they use all the
Lenity possible in collecting the Quit Rents from the People.
The following Return is ordered to be entered

In Obedience to an Order of Council of 30^th of May 1747
We the subscribers do humbly certify That We did give
Notice to the Indian Chiefs to meet Us at Cambridge on
Tuesday the 8^th Day of March last, and on Wednesday the
9^th We took the Examination of Indian Abraham (Hopping
Sam, Tom Bishop, John Quash, John Newnon, John Quitam
being present) And the said Abraham declared as follows
Viz. That about Twenty years ago Philemon Lecompt (being
then a youth) agreed with the then Indian Queen Mechasusa
for One hundred Trees suitable for Staves, for which Trees
he gave the Queen seven yards of Linen, That the said
Philemon Lecompte is now cutting down Timber Trees upon
the Indian Land, and tells them he disregards any thing they
can say or do to him; This Complaint appears to be well
founded from the Information of several Persons of Credit,
The same Abraham further saith That M^rs Elizabeth Trippe
Widow, and One John Dawson hath settled upon their Land,
but upon Enquiry into the Affair understand Dawson became
their Tenant, if any further Enquiry be thought needful We
submit to the Board; And that the Comm^rs be impower^d to
call the Surveyor of the County to run any of the Lines may
be thought proper, and that the Sheriff or under Sheriff attend
if required, and summon any Person whose Attendance may
be necessary. But this is humbly submitted to the Considera-
tion of the Board
Sam Chamberlaine
7 June 1748 W Thomas