542 Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1752.

Lib. C. B.

Martin Kitzmiller by the said Kitzmillers Son Jacob, this
Deponent went to see the said M^r Dudley Digges at the Place
where he found him lying in great extremity at the End of the
said Kitzmillers Smiths Shop, and in about half an hour after
expired. That Several Persons were then at the said Place
and by all the Information this Deponent could then and Since
have the said M^r Dudley Digges died within five yards of the
Place where he was Shot. That this Deponent very well
remembers he had the directing of the Survey of M^r John
Digges Land at Canowaga called Digges Choice, and when
the Surveyor came first to Run the Lines he did not finish the
same, In some time after he came again and began the whole
again and finished the Survey for Return, and the very Spot
where the afs^d unfortunate Murder was committed was both
times Included in the said Surveys, And this Deponent further
saith that the said M^r John Digges had given him Instructions
to Settle some Germans within the Lines of his said Survey
in pursuance whereof this Deponent did Survey one hundred
Acres of said Land for a Certain John Lemon who then went
to the said Digges agreed upon Terms and Settled the same
which Settlement was Included within the Lines of the original
Tract or Survey as well as within the one hundred acres so
Surveyed by this Deponent as af^d and is the same Place
where the af^d Martin Kitzmiller now lives and where the af^d
Murder was Committed. And this Deponent further saith
that he believes he had Notice of his Majestys Order for
Quieting the Possessions of the Lines dividing the two Gov-
ernments of Maryland & Pensilvania, as soon as any Person
had heard of it in this Province and that he received this
Notice from Pensilvania and well Remembers that the last
Survey was made a Long time before the Royal Order afores^d

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was known here and that the said Kitzmiller had bought the
Plantation af^d a Considerable time before this Deponent had
heard of the Order, and had agreed with John Lemon af^d as
the said Lemon told this Deponent to Pay the af^d John Digges
what Money the af^d Lemon had agreed and Contracted with
the said John Digges for the Land af^d And he further Saith
that he has frequently heard the said Kitzmiller Say that he
would agree with the af^d John Digges for the same
Rob^t Owings

Sworn to before me this 2^d Day of May 1752
Geo: Steuart