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

Lib. J. R.

& U. S.

Plantation which plantation he saith he understood had been
Taken up by a Warrant of Survey in Sussex County afore-
said Some time past, but at what time is to him the Deponent
unknown upon which he went Immediately from his own
dwelling to the aforesaid Willeys Plantation, and being there
Viz^t in the said Willeys yard, William Outten then an under
Sheriff of the County of Worcester af s^d Came out of the said

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Willeys House with a cutlass in his hand, Whereupon as he
the Deponent having heard, that the said William Outten
had Precepts from the Court of Worcester aforesaid for
twenty three persons including the two before mentioned
Persons Living on the Borders of the said Counties of Sussex

and Worcester and hearing that he himself was one of the

said Persons, he bid the said William Outten Stand off for
that he would not be Taken by him, Whereupon he struck
the Deponent with the Cutlass aforesaid Several Strokes and
by one of them gave him a wound upon the Left Shoulder;
upon Which he this Deponent fled and went out of the said
Willeys yard in order to go to his own home and have his
wound Spedily drest, at which time of his retiring the said
William Outten followed him round and about the yard
aforesaid, and being at about Forty or Fifty yards from
the aforesaid Willeys House several Persons came round
about him, some of whom called out saying he the said Wil-
liam Outten is coming again against you, upon Which one
of the said Company whose name he knoweth not put a gun
in his hand but he this deponent neither did or Attempt to
make any use of it; after which the aforesaid John Willey
came up to the Deponent but Whether he got the Gun from
him, he being in a Fright he knoweth not, nor who the person
was that got the said Gun from him; after which he saw the
aforesaid William Outten making up towards the aforesaid
John Willey with his cutlass drawn in his hand, at which
Time he also saw the said Willey armed with a Gun, he also
saith that he heard the Voices of some Persons calling out
shoot him, (but who the persons so calling out are to him
the Deponent unknown) he also saith that he saw the afore-
said John Willey fire off the said Gun, But at that Time (a
House being between the Deponent and the aforesaid William
Outten) he did not see him fall by means of the said Firing,
but he went up to the Body of the said William Outten which
then lay on the Ground Expiring and in about a quarter of
an Hour did Expire, he farther saith that at the said Time
he heard some of the people there standing say it was no
more than what he might expect or deserve, but he doth not