Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1752. 543

That about fourteen years ago as near as this Deponent
can Remember a Certain Robert Owings laid out two hundred
Acres of Land part of Digges Choice which said Land the
said Owings told this Deponent belonged to M^r John Digges,
after the said Deponent had lived about three years on it he
then Sold the said Tract of Land to a Certain Henry Sell and
immediately after that the said Deponent had laid out for him
by the af^d Owings One hundred Acres more of the same Tract
or Parcell of Land called Digges Choice where a Certain
Martin Kitzmiller now lives the said Kitzmiller having bought
In about a years Time the said Deponents work thereon; tho
at the same time the said Deponent Informed the said Kitz-
miller that the said Deponent had no Right to Sell the said
Land but he must buy of the said John Digges upon which
the said Kitzmiller told this Deponent if he could Get his
good will in his work he should not Value said Digges for
that he wou'd hold it under Pensilvania, and further this
Deponent Declares that about Seven or Eight Months Past as
this Deponent was Passing to the said Digges Quarter on the
same Land to do some Business when he this Deponent called
at a Certain Peter Olers who told this Deponant that he under-
stood the said John Digges was Coming to Survey Some
Lands for a Certain Jacob Banker that he the said Oler at the

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same time told this Deponent that the said Digges had no
Land there, but all that belongs to Pensilvania that he the
said Oler went then with this Deponent to the above men-
tioned Kitzmillers near which Place the said Digges was
Expected to come that Day to Survey Land for the af^d Banker,
at which time the said Oler declared to this Deponent that he
would with a Club or Stick knock the said Digges down &
drive him away and the said Kitzmiller Swore he would Shoot
and Kill the said Digges if he offered to Survey that Land,
this Deponent asked the said Oler & Kitzmiller whether he
should tell the said Digges, to which they both Answered yes,
he might go and tell the said Digges, And further this Depo-
nent Says that he the said Oler told this Deponent that he
was Informed by a man from Rock Creek, the said Digges
had lost all his Land that the Assembly had taken it from him
And further Saith not.
Taken before us the Subscribers two of his Lordships Justices
for Baltimore County this 18^th Day of July Anno Domini 1746
W Young
Sam^l Owings

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