560 Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1752.

Lib. C. B.

That this Deponent well Remembers that he was informed
in a year or two after, that the aforesaid Martin Kitzmiller
was treating with the aforesaid Digges to purchase the said
Land and had provided about forty Pounds in Money and
intended the same for said Digges in order to Secure the said
Land but instead thereof this Deponent very well Remembers
that the said Martin Kitzmiller as this Deponent was then
Informed laid out the said Money to Purchase at a Vendue a
Place where a Certain John Stafflemire then Lived and which
was then Sold or Soon after, at the Same Time this Depo-

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nent understood that the said Digges was something disturbed
at the disappointment thereof, that likewise this Deponent
very well Remembers and at Sundry times was Informed that
the said Martin Kitzmiller would Purchase of said Digges
and at other times would not but would hold under the Pro-
prietors of Pensilvania and about five years ago this Deponent
was present when the aforesaid Martin Kitzmiller came to the
said Digges and agreed with the said Digges in the Purchase
and to have the same run out and Surveyed for him, to this
End this Deponent was Employed to Survey the same and in
Company with the late M^r Dudley Digges Jacob Banker &
Miles Coyle this Deponent did Survey and run the Lines of
the same agreeable to a division made and agreed upon
between the aforesaid Banker (a former Purchaser of the said
Digges) and the aforesaid Martin Kitzmiller. That this
Deponent likewise very well Remembers that the aforesaid
Martin Kitzmiller Complained that the Land consisted in too
much bottom Land and Meadow and that he should not have
Plow land enough upon which this Deponent told him he

might easily add enough of that Sort by taking of the Prop^rs

of Pensilvania on which the said Kitzmiller Swore he would
have none of Penns Land.
This Deponent further knows and Remembers that the said
John Lemon upon his Settling this Land built a dwelling
house a Stable or Barn and thinks a third house, but of this
Last this Depon' is not Certain, besides Cutting down and
Clearing a very heavy Piece of Timbered Land and Fenceing
the same in doing of which the said Lemon was at the Expence
of Employing a certain John Deerdove to assist him therein,
and this Deponent knows the said Lemon paid the said Deer-
dove towards the Expence thereof two Valuable Young Bay
horses which was done by the said Lemon before the said
Kitzmiller entered thereupon.
This Deponent further Saith that the said Kitzmiller to the
best of this Deponents knowledge hath neither Grubed or
Cleared any more Land or Added further Improvements
within the said Land Claimed by the said Digges Excepting
the Mill a Little Meadow Ground with some Addition to the