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

Lib. J. R.
& U. S.

Name, and Demanded Assistance but all then present refused
Except the said John Willy, that there was some scuffling
Between Coverdale and Outten who refused to submit to
their Authority unless they compelled him and afterwards
they went away and Left Outten and further this Deponent
sayeth not
Lanty Slavin
Taken & Sworn the 8^th day of March 1759
before me Rob^t Jenkins Henry

Maryland Worcester County to wit,
Abraham Ingram of Worcester County aged Thirty Eight
years or thereabouts being sworn on the Holy Evangels of
Almighty God Deposeth as follows.
That this Deponent has all his Lifetime resided in the
province of Maryland near the Borders of Sussex County
called one of the three Lower Counties upon Delaware that
at a Branch called Lockleys Drain has always during the
Time of his knowledge been Deemed the Boundary between
the said province of Maryland and the said County of Sussex
and this Deponent further says that he well knows the place
Where One John Willey Lived at the Time it is said he killed

p. 290

One William Outten and where the said Fact was committed
and that the same is at Least one Mile and an half Within
the Bounds of Maryland, and that John Sharpe and Penning-
ton Welch live upon the West side of Gravelly Branch which
Issues out of the Nanticoke River and that the Habitations
of the said Sharpe and Welch at the time of the killing were
as also within the Ancient Reputed Limitts of the said Prov-
ince of Maryland and further this Deponent sayeth not
his
Abraham +++ Ingram
mark
Taken & Sworn the 8 day of March 1759 before me
Rob^t Jenkins Henry

Maryland Worcester County ss^t
John Pollock of Worcester County Gent aged Fifty years
or thereabouts being sworn on the Holy Evangels of Al-
mighty God deposeth as Follows.
That he this Deponent lived at the Plantation he now lives
at upwards of Thirty years and held his Rights under the
Lord Baltimore and paid his dues always in the province of
Maryland, and that he this Deponent for thirty years Last
past and upwards always understood as well from the In-
habitants of Sussex County as from the Inhabitants of