308 Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1753-1761.

Lib. J. R.
& U. S.

In the next place it may be Proper to acquaint your Hon-
our, that at the Time when John Willey (now a prisoner)
Surrender'd himself, to wit, on the Seventh Instant near
noon, I was informed that the Body of the person slain, was
carried away in Worcester County on the day before by some
of the persons who had Accompanied him in Life so that it
was not in the power of our Coroner to have a view of it or
take an Inquisition concerning' the Death of it, but one hath
been Taken in the County of Worcester aforesaid, and as it
is reported they have found the place where the killing was
to be in that County: On the other hand our quarter Ses-
sions Grand Jury have found it to be in Sussex by a Bill of
Indictment against Several of the deceaseds Late attendants
as Rioters Routers &c. and being unlawfully Assembled at
the same place
But for giving your Honour Some farther Account as to
the Scituation of the place, we have Taken and sent the
Deposition of our Surveyor as also of an Ancient Borderer
who was one of his Chain Carriers; and this hath Detained
our messenger from setting off more early We had Likewise
sent for another very Ancient Liver on the Borders, but he

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is not as yet come to Town.
Lewes February 17^th 1759. We are, Sir.
Your Honours most Obed^t hble Servants

Jacob Phillips R^s Holt
David Hall Jacob Kollock

Copy of a Warrant for Surveying 200 Acres of Land
Scituated on Gum Branch Granted to Ephraim Polk. Pen-
sylvania and Counties on Delaware ss^t By the Proprietary's

Whereas Ephraim Polk of the County of Sussex hath re-
quested of us that we would be pleased to grant him a survey
on two Hundred Acres on the East Side of Gum Branch
adjoining Thomas Hammonds Land in the Forest of Cedar
Creek Hundred in the said County, for which he agrees to
pay to our use the yearly Quit-Rent of one peny Sterling for
every acre of the Same and one Whole years Rent on every
Alienation.
These are Therefore to Authorize and Require you to
Survey or cause to be Surveyed unto the said Ephraim Polk
at the place aforesaid contiguous to Surveys already made,
the said Quantity of 200; Acres if not already Surveyed or
appropriated, and make Return thereof into the Secretarys
office in order for Confirmation, for Which this shall be your
Sufficient Warrant.