Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1753-1761. 363

and he further saith that his aforesaid Father in his Capacity
of Deputy or under Sheriff as aforesaid had a Precept de-
livered to him by the aforesaid Joseph M^cCloster as he heard
say, which Precept Issued out of the Court of Common
Pleas for Somerset County aforesaid as it was then called
by Virtue of which Precept he was Commanded to take the
Body of the said Nathaniel Dunahow but, that upon his
Fathers Attempting to serve the said Precept the aforesaid
Nathaniel Dunahow, said at the Time, that he would not be
Taken by him: for saith he (the said Nathaniel Dunahow) I
belong to and live within Pensylvania Government: Where-
upon the Deponents Father aforesaid Desisted; and upon his
Acquainting the High Sheriff before mentioned with the said
Nathaniels Answer and Refusal to be Taken by the Precept
he bid him to Proceed no farther upon it. and the deponent
further saith he very well remembers that the said Nathaniel
Dunahow was never taken from the Place of his aforesaid
Settlement by any other Precept to the best of his belief and
knowledge ever Issuing out of the Court of Common Pleas
for Somerset County afs^d the Deponent further saith that
from the Time of his Birth until about four years last Past
he had lived upon the reputed Borders between Somerset
County aforesaid as it was then Called, but now the Upper
Part thereof is called and known by the Name of Worcester
County He the Deponent farther saith that after his Fath-
ers Decease, he hath constantly heard his Mother who is now
living, say, that the Place where the said Nathaniel Dunahow
was settled on as it is before mentioned was reputed to be

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within the County of Sussex aforesaid (as it is now called)
but then Generally called by the Inhabitants of the Province
of Maryland aforesaid Whorekill County, or Pensylvania
Government) he the Deponent farther saith that he well
knoweth and Ions; hath known, a certain branch called by the
Name of Gravelly Branch over which Branch was formerly
a common wading Place, but now hath a Bridge built over the
said Wading Place, and the which branch (by common
Fame and Report) was ever looked upon since the Deponents
coming to years of Discretion, to be a divisionary Limit and
Boundary between Maryland Government and Pensylvania
Government as it was formerly called by which words the
Deponent understood it to be a reputed Boundary limit
between the Counties of Worcster afs^d and Sussex aforesaid
(as they are now called) Particularly that Part of Sussex
County aforesaid in which the Deponent now liveth, called
and known by the Name of Ceedar Creek Hundred in the
said County of Sussex and farther this Deponent saith not
Jurat Coram me Watiman Willev
R^s Holt Capital Jus^t &c.

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