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the said William Ross & his Sons the said Lawrence Ross and
Robert Ross came there and brought an Iron Pot with them
with a Bit broke out of the Edge which this Deponent had
seen in the said Cresaps lower Fort sometime before which
Pot the said Ross told this Deponent he had brought for him
to cook in while he stayed there, and that the said Ross told
this Deponent it was his Pot. and further this Deponent saith
not.
May 10^th 1757.. Sworn before me Tho^s Caton

Frederick County in the Colony of Virginia (to wit)

The Deposition of James Cox aged nineteen Years or
thereabouts taken on the holy Evangelists of almighty God
before Thomas Caton Gentleman a Justice of the Peace for

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the County aforesaid the io^th Day of May 1757.. deposeth
and saith that he being at the House of Henry Enocks sen :
on Cape Capon sometime last Fall saw a Jugg of Melasses in
the said House which he heard Jacob Lane tell Henry Enocks
senior that his Son Henry Enocks jvinior from the Plantation
of Col: Thomas Cresap called the Old Town, and further
this Deponent saith not.
May io^th 1757.. Sworn before me Tho: Caton

Frederick County in the Colony of Virginia to wit.

The Deposition of John Nichols aged forty eight years
or thereabouts taken on the holy Evangelists of Almighty
God before Thomas Caton Gentleman a Justice of the peace
for the County aforesaid the io^th Day of May 1757.. deposeth
and saith that sometime last Fall as this Deponent and several
others had been up to Fort Cumberland they called at Col:
Thomas Cresap's House at the old Town, and saw one David
Morgan pick up a Kettle which lay by the said Cresap's
Upper Fort, which he the said David Morgan said he would
carry home, and mend his (the said David Morgan's) Kettle
with and this Deponent further saith that some time after
as he was going up towards the said Cresap's Plantation
again he saw the said Morgan have several Looking Glasses
which this Deponent imagined were brought from the said
Cresap's Plantation, and this Deponent further saith that he
has heard Jacob Lane say several Times that Henry Enock
junior had broke a Jugg that was buried in a Hole in the said
Cresaps' Plantation, in Order to get at a Kettle that was
buried in the same Hole, and that the said Henry Enocks
junior was going to take the same away but that the said
Lane threatened to tell the said Cresap of it and this De-
ponent further saith that he saw an Ax at the House of

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