Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1753-1761. 371

the said Survey is the Land Whereon a certain John Willey
(now a Prisoner at Lewis) did lately dwell: which said Land
is Scituate on that Part of the said Great Neck, and that
from the Time of this Deponents remembrance it was always
allowed and reputed to be a Part of Ceedar Creek Hundred
aforesaid and further this Deponent saith not
Jurat coram Nobis Thomas Himmons
R^s Holt, Jacob Kollock, Jacob Phillips
a True Copy Richard Peters Secretary

Sussex on Delaware
The Deposition of Joseph Morgan of the County afs^d
Yeoman aged 58 years or thereabouts taken at Lewis in the
said County this 16^th day of May In the year of our Lord
1757 this Deponent being Sworn on the Holy Evangelists did
Depose and say: That about 16 or 17 years ago he this depo-
nent made Application to William Owens (then a Deputy
Surveyor of Dorchester County in Maryland) to Survey
Some Land for this deponent which Land lay on the East
side of a County Road Passing from Choptank Bridge to
Snow Hill and over a Branch called Gravelly Branch but this
deponent could not Prevail on the said William Owens to
make the Survey aforesaid & the Reason the said William
Owens gave this Deponent for his refusal was that Col^o
Gale who then was Lord Baltimores agent of his Land Office
(as this Deponent hath been told) was not Willing to Grant
any warrant for Lands to the Eastward of the said Road
(and the deponent also heard the Same words from Several
other Inhabitants of Dorchester County aforesaid) for that
the Lands aforesaid to the Eastward of the Road aforesaid
was reputed to be within the Limits of Pensylvania Govern-
ment aforesaid (as it was then commonly called) by the
Inhabitants of the Province of Maryland afs^d the deponent
further saith that the Plantation of John Willey (now a
Prisoner at Lewis) afs^d formerly Surveyed for a Certain
Ephraim Polk under a warrant from the Honble Proprie-
tarys Land Office for the Province of Pensylvania and
Counties on Delaware, is scituate to the best of his belief and
knowledge within the aforesaid County of Sussex for that it
lays about 3 miles to the Eastward of the afs^d Road and
further this Deponent Saith not

Lib. J. R.
& U. S.

Jurat Coram Nobis
R^s Holt
Jacob Kollock
Jacob Phillips

his
Joseph I Morgan
mark
A True Copy
Richard Peters Secretary