Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1753-1761. 315

Remember which of the said Expressions it was; and further
this Deponent saith not
Signed thus John Sharp
on the day and year first within mentioned
thus Subscribed
Jurat Coram Nb. R^s Holt Capital Just & Just Pacis &c.

Copy Widow Hammonds Deposition
Sussex on Delaware
The Deposition of Patience Wadeloe Hammond Widow
of Ceedar Creek Hundred in the County aforesaid taken
before me the Subscriber at my House in Lewes in the said
County on the twelfth day of February in the 32^d year of
his Majestys Reign and in the year of our Lord 1759 this

Lib. J. R.

& U. S.

Deponent being Solemnly Sworn on the holy Evangelists did
Depose and say, that on Tuesday the Sixth day of this
Instant, she was at the House and plantation of a certain
John Willey, Scituate to the best of her belief and knowledge
in Ceedar Creek Hundred in the County of Sussex aforesaid,
and then and there being, She saw a certain William Outten
at that time undersheriff of the County of Worcester in
the province of Maryland and sundry other persons with him,
all of whom were to this Deponent unknown, and that the
aforesaid William Outten seemed at that Time to be angry,
saying, that he had been ill used the Sunday before, but she
did not hear him say by Whom, but he shewed her a Scratch
on one of his hands, soon after which she saw him and
another person with him in the aforesaid . John Willeys
House, he the said Willey being then up in his Loft of the
said House, she farther saith she heard the said Outten call
out to the said Willey saying he might as Well Come down
for that he would have him dead or alive, presently after
which she heard a Voice in Willeys yard which she took to be
the voice of a certain John Sharp Whereupon the aforesaid
William Outten went out of the said House, and that he had
a Drawn cutlass in his hand, she further saith, that she saw the
said Outten and the said Sharpe fighting together, Sharp at
that time having a Walking Stick in his hand and that Blows
past between them, but she knoweth not which gave the
first Stroke. A Little while after this the Deponent saith
that the aforesaid John Willey came down from his afore-
said Loft and went out of his back doore and soon afterwards
she heard the Report of a Gun, and some voices crying out
Lord have mercy upon us the man is killed and soon after-
wards she saw the aforesaid William Outten's Corps laying
Dead upon the Ground near a Little House of the said

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