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memory was also unoticed in the Deposition of the said
Sharpe and further this Deponent saith not W^m Hayward
Taken & Sworn to this 16^th day of April Anno Domini 1759
before me W^m Goldsborough

Maryland ss^t
The Deposition of Parker Selby of Worcester County in
the province of Maryland Gent, aged Thirty One years or
thereabouts being Sworn on the Holy Evangels of Almighty
God Deposeth and Saith that he this Deponent was present
at the Examination of John Sharpe taken at Lewis Town in
the County of Sussex on Delaware before Rives Holt Esq
and that the said John Sharpe then and there upon and at the
Time of his Examination and the Taking of his Deposition
did declare that precedent to the Murder of William Outten
one of the Sub Sheriffs of Worcester County in the province
of Maryland committed by one John Willy, that he the said
John Sharpe and the said John Willy with sundry other
persons had agreed together to withstand and murder the
said William Outten if he should Attempt to Execute any
process on them Issued out of the County Court of Worces-
ter upon which one Cloves one of the Majestrates of the
County of Sussex aforesaid immediately told the said Sharpe
that such words were Dangerous, that they Amounted to a
Combination and that Surely no Combination was made and
that the said Sharpe must be mistaken, which Seemed to

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afright Sharpe and put him upon taking back what he had
Declared, but upon being directed Several Times to relait
what he had to say he as often declared the agreement afore-
said yet from the Interposition of the said Cloves; Jacob
Collect and one Hall Magistrates of the County of Sussex
afs^d the whole of what Sharpe mentioned about the agree-
ment aforesaid was left out and not inserted in the Depo-
sition of the said Sharp to the best of this Deponents mem-
ory and this Deponent further sayeth that the said Sharpe
at the Time of his Examination and the Taking of his Depo-
sition aforesaid also Declared that himself and the several
other persons against whom process had Issued out of the
County Court of Worcester afs^d would have Submitted to
such process but that the Great Men of Sussex County afs^d
would not permit them which expressions of the said Sharpe
were also to the best of this Deponents memory left out and
not Inserted in the said Sharps Deposition, and further this
Deponent saith not.
Parker Selby
Taken & Sworn to this 16^th day of April Anno
Domini 1759 before me W^m Goldsborough

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