Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1753-1761. 365

his Parents into the County of Sussex aforesaid when he
was a Sucking Child, in the which County he hath lived the
Greatest Part of his Lifetime and for about 60 years thereof
in Ceedar Creek Hundred in the County aforesaid and that
the Plantation that he is now settled upon he doth hold under
the Rights granted to him from the Land Office of the
Proprys of Pensylvania and Counties on Delaware; he
farther saith, that his Son John Coverdel about 18 Years
ago had some Intention of taking up a Peice of Land towards
the Upper end of a neck in Ceedar Creek Forrest, commonly
called and known by the Name of the Grate Neck but Since
that Time, the Place his Son had Pitched upon to take up,
hath been Surveyed by M^r William Shankland, now Deputy
Surveyor of Sussex County aforesaid for a Certain Ephraim
Polk, who afterwards, as this Deponent is informed sold all
his Right and Title in the said Land to one John Willey (now
a Prisoner at Lewis in the County aforesaid) and the Depo-
nent further saith that the Plantation of him the said John
Willey is scituate to the best of his Belief and knowledge,
within the Hundred aforesaid it laying South Easterly from
the Place of the Deponents Present Dwelling Near upon a
mile and upon which Place he the Deponent hath Quetly and
unmolested lived for many years last Past, the which Places
the deponent saith Constantly hath been reputed to be within
the Bounds and Limits of the Hundred aforesaid nor doth
the Deponent know of any Riots or Disturbances made on or
near the Present place of his Settlement or the Rights there-
of, or any of the Neighbouring Places unto it, contested
until what hath Lately happened at the Plantation of the
aforesaid John Willey and he the Deponent further saith
that he hath known the aforesaid John Willey ever since
he came to Settle on the Plantation aforesaid and that he
hath behaved himself in a quiet Peaceable and Neighbourly
Like manner and as an Industrus Young Man ought to do :
and farther this Deponent saith not
his
Jurat Coram Nobis Richard R C Coverdell
mark
R^s Holt
Jacob Kollock A True Copy Richard Peters Secretary
Jacob Phillips

Sussex County on Delaware
The deposition of Warren Burroughs of the County afore-
said Yeoman aged 46 years or thereabouts taken at Lewis in
the said County this 16 day of May in the year of our Lord
1759 This deponent being Solemnly Sworn on the Holy

Lib. J. R.

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