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

Lib. J. R.
& U. S.

formed by Sundry Persons and hath always understood that
the Beaver Dams or Drains aforesaid were the reputed and
Acknowledged Boundaries between the Province of Mary-
land and Sussex County afores^d And this Deponent further
saith that about five or six years past he applied to one
William Shanklin then and still Deputy Surveyor of Sussex
County aforesaid to Survey and lay out for him a Parcel of
Land on the Westernmost side of the aforesaid Beavir Dams
and Drains which the said Shanklin refused to do unless this
Deponent would indemnify him for so doing for as much as
it was out of & beyond the Bounds of Sussex County as the
said Shanklin then informed this Deponent And this Depo-
nent further saith that the aforesaid Shanklin then further
told this Deponent that M^r Peters had given Orders to him
the aforesaid Shanklin not to Survey any Lands to the West-
ward or on the Westernmost side of the afs^d Beaver Dams &
Drains but that the said Shanklin then promised this Depo-
nent that if ever it was in his Power he would Secure the
Land for him this Deponent for which this Deponent gave
the said Shanklin two Shillings and six pence the Customary
Fee for the Entry of Lands with the Surveyor of Sussex
County it being then much talked of that the lines between
the Proprietor of Maryland & the Proprietors of Pensilvania
were shortly to be settled and further this Deponent saith not
Tho^s Collier
Taken and Sworn to this 29^th Day of August Anno Dom

1759
Joseph Collins

before W^m Ellegood

Worcester County ss^t

Robert Ing-ram of Worcester County in the Province of
Maryland Planter Aged Sixty two years and upwards being
Sworn on the holy Evangels of Almighty God deposeth &
saith that about fifty years past he went to live up in the
Head of then Somerset but now WorcesterCounty near unto
a Branch called Green Branch where he now lives and ever
since hath lived & that to the knowledge of this Deponent
a Branch maketh out of the River Nanticoke called Gravelly
Branch & runneth for its Course from the said River Nanti-
coke near North East for about the Distance of seven Miles
where it Heads and that from thence another Branch maketh
out & runs near South East untill it falls in with Green
Branch aforesaid and that he always understood & ever
heard that the Lands to the Northward of the aforesaid
Branch so as aforesaid making out from the Head of