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

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Gun in his hand) let the Examinant have the Same, But in
What manner she was loaded he could not tell; and when he
was so possessed of the said Gun, he saith, he heard Some
Voices (but Whose he knoweth not) saying that if he,
meaning the afs^d Outten as this Examinant believes) will
not stand off Shoot him, upon which the said Outten went
round a small House of the Examinants Adjoyning to his
yard in order to take the said Examinant and had in his hand
the aforesaid Hanger or Cutlass drawn; But the Examinants
Wife had hold of the said Outten begging him to desist, but
he would not.
Whereupon as the said Outten was approaching towards
this Examinant in the aforesaid Armed Manner he bid him
to stand of at his Peril otherwise he would shoot him, but
the said Outten still Advancing, towards the Examinant he
cocked and presented at him, the aforesaid Gun Wherewith
he shot the aforesaid William Outten in or near the Groin
after which Accident the persons that accompanied the said
Outten not Offering to lay hold of this Examinant, he came
away from his aforesaid Dwellings, and hath on the day of
the Date hereof Viz^t the Seventh day of February in the 32^d
year of his Majestys Reign Anno Domini 1759. Surrendered
him self up in order to be tryed for the aforesaid Offence, in
a due Course of Law and Justice his
Signed thus, John / Willis
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Copy Peter Dolby's Deposition

Sussex on Delaware
The Deposition of Peter Dolby taken before me the Sub-
scriber this Eighth Day of February in the 32^nd year of his
Majestys Reign and in the year of our Lord one Thousand
Seven Hundred and Fifty nine this Dopent being Solemnly
Sworn on the Holy Evangelists did depose and say that on
Tuesday the 6^th Instant at about ten o'Clock in the morning
he was with William Outten Deputy Sheriff of Worcester
County in the province of Maryland at the House of a certain
John Willey by him claimed to be Within the County of
Sussex (accompanied with Sundry others, and that the said
William Outten told him that he had a precept from the
Court of Worcester aforesaid to apprehend and take the said
John Willey and that when the said Deputy Sheriff, and
himself with Others came to the said John Willeys House,
he was at that time up in his Loft and the Doore of the House
aforesaid was then open but he heard the Wife of the said
John Willey say that it had been broke open, but this Depo-