Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1753-1761. 339

Somerset County to wit.
Be it Remembred that at a Court of his Lordship the
Right Honble Frederick Absolute Lord and proprietor of the
provinces of Maryland and Avalon Lord Baron of Baltimore
&c. held at Princes Ann Town the third Tuesday in March
being the Twentieth day of the same month Anno Domini
One Thousand Seven Hundred and Fifty Nine before Isaac
Handy Esq and his Associates Justices of the same Court in
Court Judicially sitting Came the above John Spicer and
made Oath on the Holy Evangelists of Almighty God that
what is contained in the above and Within Instrument of
Writing is Just and True to the best of his knowledge
p order Thomas Hayward Jr Cl Cor Corsen

Lib. J. R.

& U. S.

Maryland Worcester County ss^t
Thomas Hinders of Sussex County upon Delaware aged
Thirty five years or thereabouts being Sworn on the Holy
Evangelists of Almighty God Deposeth as follows. That this
Deponent was born in the Head of Dorchester County in
the province of Maryland and there resided till about five
years Last past when he removed to a place called Slaughter
neck in the County of Sussex that as he has been travelling
at Times near the borders of Sussex County he was informed
by Sundry persons there Inhabiting that the Branch Issuing
out of Nanticoke River by the Widow Ingrams and the
Drains near the Widow Hammonds was the Divisional
Boundaries between Maryland and Pensylvania and this De-
ponent further says that on the fifth day of February Last
being a Monday this Deponent was at the House of M^r
Nehemiah Draper one of the Magistrates of Sussex County
when and where there Came one Richard Coverdale William
Mullineux and three more and the said Richard Coverdale
told the said Draper that he had on the Sabath the day pre-
ceeding served his Warrant on William Outten an under
Sheriff of Worcester County in Maryland at the House of
one Lanta Slavens who had got away from them that he
understood by the said Draper that himself and one Watson
had granted the Warrant, This Deponent sayed he thought
the Constable was to blame in Serving the Warrant upon the
Sabath day and also in serving it where they did at Lanta
Slavins which was within the undoubted Deemed Limitts of
Maryland upon Which. the said Draper made Answer and
sayed that he thought they had gone a Little too far and this
Deponent further says that the people above mentioned or
Some of them told M^r Draper that they would take the said
Outten and further this Deponent says that he has been

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