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

Lib. J. R.
& U. S.

Past) was Reputed to be on the Borders between Somerset
County as it was then called and the County of Sussex afore-
said but then more Generally called by the People of the
Province of Maryland) Whorekill County, The Deponent
further saith that he lived with his aforesaid Brother Charles
at his Settlement on the aforesaid Reputed Borders, until he
was upwards of Twenty Years of age; he then married and
went to Settle on an Improvement made by a Certain George
Bishop under a Warrant of Survey from the Land Office of
the Government of Maryland the Certificate of which War-
rant had Some time before been Assigned over to the De-
ponent, by the said George Bishop who had Had (by Virtue
of the said Warrant) a Survey made for him the said
George: the which Improvement is Scituate on the North
Side of a Branch called by the Name of Maple Marsh
Branch, and lyeth Northeastward from the Plantation of his
Brother Charles Polk about two miles, the Deponent further
saith that in about two or three Years after that he had
went to Live on the Improvem^t aforesaid he sold his Right
therein to a certain Richard Coverdale Jun, and then came to
Settle in the Forrest Part of Ceedar Creek Hundred in
Sussex County Afs^d and in which Hundred he hath ever

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since Dwelt, The Deponent Likewise saith, that on the said
Maple Marsh Branch and on the Same Northern or rather
North western Part of it a Certain Edward Cary now dece^d
had made an Improvement under a Pensylvania Right (as
it was then Commonly called) which Lay within abo^t a Mile
of the Improvement so as aforesaid assigned over to him
the Deponent by George Bishop aforesaid and Near upon
three Miles Northeastward of the Plantation and Settlement
of his aforesaid Brother Charles Polke: He further saith
that the Improvement of the aforesaid Edward Cary, is now
quietly held and Possessed by a Certain Joseph Polke, Cousin
to this deponent, and under the Right of the Government of
the Counties on Delaware and was so held by the aforesaid
Edward Carey in his life time Peaceably and without any
Maryland Claim being made thereto to the best of the De-
ponents belief and knowledge, he having never heard of any
such claim, The deponent further Saith, that the Plantation
whereon John Willey (now a Prisoner at Lewis) lately dwelt,
Was formerly his Property and that it is Scituated in a Part
of Ceedar Creek Hundred in Sussex aforesaid commonly
called the Upper Part of the Great Neck: the which Property
he held under a Warrant from the Land Office of the Hon-
ourable the Proprietarys of the Province of Pensylvania and
Counties on Delaware: nor doth he know, nor did he ever
hear either before or at the Time of the Survey made for