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Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1753-1761. 367
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the said County this 16 day of May 1759 this Deponent
being Sworn on the Holy Evangelists did depose and say
that he was born in the Colony of Virginia but brought into
Sussex County by his Parents when about two years of age
and that he hath lived in the said County of Sussex ever
since, to wit at Broadkill Hundred in the said County for
upwards of Forty Years of the Same time and that he is
well acquainted with what was the reputed or commonly
esteemed Division Line or Boundary Between the said
County of Sussex and that part of Maryland then called
Somerset County but now known by the Name of Wor-
cester County, for he further saith that there is a Pretty
Large Savannah on the Borders of the aforesaid Counties
that was and is still called by the Name of the Whorekill
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Savannah that he the Deponent hath often been with others
a Ranging for young Horses, Colts or mares, that were bred
or usually did frequent the said Savannah as their feeding
Place, that in the Course of such Ranging, he hath frequently
met with Several Inhabitants of Maryland who came to the
said Savannah on the Same ends and Purposes and that he
always heard the said People of Maryland aforesaid Ac-
knowledge that the said Savannah belonged to what was then
called the Whorekill County and he further saith that the
said Savannah to the best of his Belief and knowledge, lyeth
near South or rather Southeasterly from the Wading Place
of a certain Branch called & known by the Name of Gravelly
Branch and further this Deponent
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Jurat Coram Nobis
Rs Holt
Jacob Kollock
Jacob Phillips
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John P Pettyjon
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A True Copy Richard Peters Secretary
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Sussex County on Delaware
The Deposition of Ephraim Polke of the County afsd
Yeoman aged Forty One Years or thereabouts taken at
Lewis in the said County this Nineteenth 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 & say that he was born in the County
of Somerset in the Province of Maryland at the Lower end
thereof: but that when he was about Eight years of age, his
Brother Charles Polke (who had the care of him) became
a Settler at the upper end of the said County of Somerset,
now called Worcester County; and the Deponent further
saith that the Place his aforesaid Brother settled on at his
Removal as aforesaid (being now about Thirty two years
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