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

Lib. J. R.
& U. S.

Sussex on Delaware
The Deposition of James Ingram of the County afs^d Yeo-
man aged 37 years or thereabouts Taken at Lewis in the said
County this 16 day of May in the year of our Lord One
Thousand Seven Hundred and Fifty nine This Deponent
being Solemnly Sworn on the Holy Evangelists did depose
and say, that he hath lived in this County of Sussex near
upon Sixteen Years, and he further saith that he was born at
a Place near the Border in Division between the said County
of Sussex and Somerset County in Maryland, as it was then
called but Now known by the Name of Worcester County
and this Deponent saith that when he was grown up to Years
of Discretion he freequently heard his Mother say, that the
Inhabitants of Maryland who happening to be Travelling
from Somerset County aforesaid after they had Passed over
a Wading Place of a Branch commonly called Gravelly
Branch that they accounted themselves to be in the Forest of
Sussex County aforesaid commonly called by the Inhabitants
of Maryland Pensylvania Forrest which Branch was by
them reputed the Boundary between Sussex County aforesaid
and that Part of Maryland then called Somerset County
aforesaid but now known by the Name of Worcester County
as afs^d the Deponent farther saith that he knows the Plan-
tation whereon John Willey now a Prisoner at Lewis afs^d
Lately Dwelt, and that the Same was Surveyed for a certain
Ephraim Polk some years Past, the which Plantation as this
deponent doth verily believe and as he hath commonly been
told by the Neighbourhood is Scituate in the Hundred of
Ceedar Creek, within the County of Sussex aforesaid and
he further Saith, that the said Plantation Lieth North East-
ward from the aforesaid Gravelly Branch, about 5 or 6 Miles,
and further this Deponent saith not
his
Jurat coram Nobis James T Ingram
mark
R^s Holt
Jacob Kollock
Jacob Phillips A true Copy Richard Peters Secretary.

Sussex on Delaware
The Deposition of Richard Coverdel of the County afore-
said Yeoman aged 75 years or thereabouts Taken at Lewis

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in the said County this 17 day of May In the year of our
Lord 1759 This Deponent being Solemnly Sworn on the
Holy Evangelists did Depose and say that he was born in
Bucks County in Pensylvania, and that he was brought by