Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1753-1761. 369

him, of any Claim having been made to that Part of the
Great Neck aforesaid by the Government of Maryland; but
that the same hath been constantly reputed and esteemed to
be within the Limits and boundaries of Ceedar Creek Hun-
dred aforesaid, and further this Deponent saith not.
Jurat Coram me Ephraim Polke
R^s HoP Capital Jus &c.
A True Copy Richard Peters Secretary

Sussex on Delaware
The affirmation of Solomon Fruit Sen of the County afs^d
Yeoman aged 65 years or thereabouts taken at Lewis in the
said County this 17^th day of May in the year of our Lord
One Thousand Seven Hundred and Fifty Nine this Affirmant
did Solemnly and Sincearly declare and Affirm in the Pres-
ence of Almighty God that he was born in the County of
Somerset in the Province of Maryland as it was heretofore
called but now known by the Name of Worcester County he
farther saith that he hath lived in Ceedar Creek Hundred in
the County of Sussex aforesaid for about 38 Years last
Past, he Likewise Affirmeth that Soone after his coming to be
an Inhabitant within the Hundred aforesaid he became Ac-
quainted with a certain William Townsend who was then
Also an Inhabitant of the said Hundred and upon some Con-
versation with the said William he told the affirmant that he
had taken up a piece or Parcel of Land at a Place called
Beaver Dam Branch by Virtue of a Warrant from the
Honble the Propri^s Land Office for the Province of Pensyl-
vania and Counties on Delaware, the which said Land was
Surveyed for the said William by M Robert Shankland De-

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ceased formerly Deputy Surveyor of the County of Sussex
aforesaid and the Affirmant further saith that he knoweth
that the aforesaid William Townsend sold his Right in the
Land aforesaid to a Certain Elizabeth Watson of Sussex
aforesaid Widow for that he the Affirmant filled up a Bond
for the Conveying and makeing over the said Land, Accord-
ing to the Laws and usages of the Government of the Coun-
ties on Delaware. He Likewise Declareth that he heard, that
a Certain Abraham Ingram, who held Land under a Mary-
land Survey near unto the Land so as aforesaid taken up by
the aforesaid William, Pretended to claim a right in the said
Williams Land or some Part thereof but he the Deponent
knoweth not that the said Abraham ever brought any Suit
for Establishing of his s^d Claim: But he the Affirmant doth
further Declare that he knoweth that a Certain Bethnel
Watson (Son of the aforesaid Elizabeth Watson) brought
his Action of Ejectment for the Recovery of the Land afore-
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