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sitting at Lewis Town in Sussex County which this Deponent :
after a Little reflection also did, knowing that he with what
persons he had with him dare not attempt to take him upon
Which the aforesaid Willy and the Active persons in his
Company went away mentioning at the same Time that the
said Corps of Outten must remain where it then was and
Sussex Coroner sent for, Which this Deponent not thinking
Well of, he with his Company bore the Corps of the said
Outten away and further this Deponent Saith not.
J Dennis Ju^r

Feb^ry 10. 1759. Then was the contents of this Deposition
Sworn to by the afs^d John Dennis before A^m Spence

And the said John Dennis upon his Oath being farther
Examined says that upon reflection he remembers that after
Outten Lay dead on the Ground Willy went up to the Corps
and sayed that Outten had got his Deserts and that he told
him before he undertook the Office of under Sheriff he would
be shot or killed but which this Deponent doth not Remember
and that if he had not undertaken the office of under Sheriff
no other person would and farther this Deponent Saith not
J Dennis Jun^r
Sworn the 9^th day of March 1759
before me Rob^t Jenkens Henry.

Which being referred by his Excellency to this Board for
their Consideration and Advice and to make a Report
Accordingly, Col^o Goldsborough, Daniel Dulany Esq and
Stephen Bordley Esq^r are desired to draw up the Same which
being done, and approved of, the Same was delivered to his
Excellency as is as, follows.

Lib. J. R.

& U. S.

By Virtue of an order from your Excellency to us of the
Several Papers hereunto Annexed for our Consideration and
to report our opinion and Advice thereon We begg leave to
Inform your Excellency that we have duly considered the
Several Matters therein Contained and do pursuant to the
said Order presume to Offer a State of the Several Material
facts arising from a view of the said papers in the following
Manner
That Indictments were found by the Grand Jury for Wor-
cester County at a County Court held for that County on the
first Tuesday being the Seventh day of November 1758
against John Willey Ezekiel Jones, Walter Kenny Edmond
West, Dan Hopkins Elijah Collins, John Lane, Thomas
Passwaters Barnett Kirk, William Lofley, James Ingram,
John Sharpe, Evan Morgan, Richard Cubberdel, Richard

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