Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1753-1761. 377

Ordered that the present General Assembly of this Prov-
ince be prorogued to the first Tuesday in February next and
Proclamations issued Accordingly

At a Council held at the City of Annapolis on Tuesday
the 26^th Day of September in the ninth year of his Lord-
ships Dominion &c Annoque Domini 1759

Present
His Excellency Horatio Sharpe Esq^r Governor.

Lib. J. R.
& U. S.

The Honble

Benjamin Tasker Esq^r
Col^o Tasker
Col^o Henry

Daniel Dulany Esq^r

Stephen Bordley Esq^r

His Excellency is pleased to lay before this Board the fol-
lowing Deposition & Letters Viz^t

Worcester County ss^t
Thomas Collier of Worcester County in the Province of
Maryland Gen^t Aged thirty three years or thereabouts being
Sworn on the holy Evangels of Almighty God Deposeth and
saith that he hath lived for twenty years past not farther
than a mile from that part of Gravelly Branch formerly
called the Widing Place where a Bridge now is and that he
never heard of any Person near there pretending to set up
any Claim or title to any Lands under a Pensilvania Right
nor that ever that Place was taken to be a Boundary between
the Province of Maryland and Sussex County by any Person
what soever, but that that Place & the Inhabitants around it
were ever taken and Accounted to be within the Province
of Maryland, And this Deponent further saith that he about
fourteen or fifteen years past acted as a Factor for Col^o
Adam Muire who purchased a Plantation from a Certain
Abraham Ingram which was Situated about Seven Miles up
Gravelly Branch aforesaid & close to or near the Head there-
of and a Place called the Beaver Dams or Drains And this
Deponent also saith that the aforesaid Abraham then in-
formed the aforesaid Muire that the Branch or Drain from
the said Beaver Dams running and extending along by a
Certain John and Cornelius Louflies was the Division and
reputed Bounds between the Province of Maryland & the
County of Sussex And this Deponent further saith that the
Plantation as aforesaid Purchased by the said Muir from the
said Ingram was on the Maryland Side of the said Dams &
Drains and was held by a Maryland Title and Grant And
this Deponent also saith that he hath been frequently in-

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