Lib. J. R.
& U. S.
p. 321

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

Sussex County on Delaware
The Deposition of Alexander West of the County of
Sussex Yeoman aged 56 years or thereabouts taken at Lewis
in the said County this 16 day of May 1759 this Deponent
being Solemnly Sworn on the Holy Evangelists did depose
and say that he knoweth a Certain Savannah Called Whore-
kill Savannah which Savannah has for 40 years Last Past
been called by the Name of the Whorekill Savannah and hath
been and Still is reputed and deemed to be within the County
of Sussex aforesaid as well by the Inhabitants of Maryland

as Sussex aforesaid and that between 30 and 40 Years Since,
a certain Thomas Walker Purchased a Property in some
Horses which used to range in the said Savannah from a
certain Sarah Prettyman, a liver in Sussex, that the afs^d
Thomas Walker being at the House of one Jacob Ingram
with this Deponent a Certain John Caldwell and one Henry
Toadwine two of the Rangers of Maryland came there and
asked the said Walkers Leave to take away a Dunn Stallion
from the said Savannah Promising to take no more of the
creatures then feeding there, but the said Stallion, he the
Deponent then heard the said John Caldwell say that he
Allowed, and that it was not contested by him or any of the
Marylanders at that time Present but that the said Savannah
was in the Province of Pensylvania by which words the
aforesaid Deponent verily believes they meant the Counties
on Delaware, Particularly the County of Sussex by them
cafled Whorekill County on Delaware aforesaid wherein he
the deponent then Dwelt, and doth Still dwell and further
this Deponent saith not

Jurat Coram Nobis
R^s Holt
Jacob Kollock
Jacob Phillips

Alexander West
A true Copy Richard Peters Secretary