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Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1753-1761. 313


nent knoweth not any thing of its having been so broke open
and the said William Outten finding that he cou'd not Come
at the said John Willey, to take him, retired with the People
accompanying to some Distance from the said House; at
which Time Colo John Dennis one of the persons who Accom-
panied the said William Outten, Advised him to desist there-
from at present upon which the said William Outten went to
his Horse, and as the Deponent thought with a design to go
away, after which he saith, that he saw John Willey afore-
said with a Gun in his hand a Little way of the said House
and that he heard some persons (whose names are to him
unknown) call out to the said John Willey saying shoot him
(meaning the said William as this Deponent verily believes)
in the Legs and that others, (also to him unknown) called
out, saying shoot him in the Body; He farther saith that the
said William Outten at that time had gone a Little way from
his Horse, & was at the back of an Out house of the said
William Willey, Soon after which he saw the said Willey
shoot the said William Outten with the Gun aforesaid, and
he farther saith that the aforesaid William" Outten had at
that Time a drawn hanger or Cutlass in his left hand, he also
saith that before the said John Willey shot the aforesaid
William Outten he had followed him about 30 yards from
the said Willeys Dwelling House and farther this Deponant
saith not
Signed thus Peter Dolby
Thus Subscribed. Jurat Coram Nb
Rs Holt. Capital Just et Just Pacis &c.

Lib. J. R.

& U. S.
p. 272

The Deposition of John Sharp.
Sussex on Delaware,

The Deposition of John Sharp, of Ceedar Creek Hundred
in the County aforesaid; Planter taken before me the Sub-
scriber at my House in Lewis in the said County on the
twelfth day of February in the 32d year of his Majestys
Reign and in the year of our Lord one Thousand seven
Hundred and Fifty Nine. This Deponent being Solemnly
sworn on the Holy Evangelists did depose and say, that on
Tuesday morning the Sixth of this Instant he was informed
that the under Sheriff of Worcester County in the Province
of Maryland was come with a Company of men to the plan-
tation of a Certain John Willey in order to serve a precept
on him. Issuing from the Court of Worcester County afore-
said and that he was also told that there were precepts of
the Like kind to Take William Mullineux and some other
Borderers living within a mile or two of the said Willeys


 

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