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directed Brig. Gen. Stanwix to Correspond and co-operate
with you in Like manner.
I am, with great Regard
Sir
Your most Obedient
Humble Servant
Jeff. Amherst
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& U. S.
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At a Council held at the City of Annapolis on Tuesday
the Seventeenth day of April in the Eighth year of his Lord-
ship's Dominion Annoq Domini 1759.
Present
His Excellency Horatio Sharpe Esqr Governor
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The Honble
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Benjamin Tasker Esq.
Colo Charles Ham-
mond
Colo Benjamin Tasker
Richard Lee Esqr
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Benedict Calvert Esqr
Colo William Goldsbour-
ough
Daniel Dulany Esqr
Stephen Bordley Esqr
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His Excellency is pleased to lay before this Board the fol-
lowing Letters and Depositions sent him from Pensilvania
Relative to a murder committed upon an under Sheriff of
Worcester County in this Province, and Also Several Papers
Relative to the Same Murder Transmitted from Somerset
and Worcester Counties as follow.
Copy of Letter from the Justices of Sussex County to
Governor Denny.
Sir
A very unhappy and much to be lamented Transaction
hath Lately fallen out with Respect to the Boundary or
Dividing Line between this County of Sussex on Delaware
and Worcester County in the Province of Maryland of which
your Honour will be more fully Informed on Perusal of the
Copys of the several Depositions herewith sent you, all of
which Depositions were taken with the concurrence and As-
sistance of the subscribing Magistrates, and some others in
the Commission of the Peace who were (at Times) present,
also were one of the Justices and the Sheriff of Worcester at
the Taking of one of them and the prosecution of his Lord-
ships Pleas for the said County at the Taking of those of
the Twelfth and Thirteenth Instant Several other Gentlemen
Likewise of the said County, being present, as often as they
pleased.
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