Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1753-1761. 379

Gravelly Branch aforesaid were esteemed to be within the
County of Sussex & under the Government generally called
Pensilvania and those to the Southward within once Somerset
but now Worcester County in the Province of Maryland And
this Deponent also saith that the Widing Place over Gravelly
Branch aforesaid where now is a Bridge is distant from the
Mouth of the aforesaid Branch called Gravelly Branch about
half a Mile and that he hath always understood that the
Lands on each Side of Gravelly Branch were within the
Province of Maryland. And this Deponent ftirther saith
that from the Head of Gravelly Branch aforesaid one other
Branch maketh out & runneth to the northward which is
called by the name of the Beaver Dams which hath also ever
heard and understood to be the Divisional Boundary between
the Province of Maryland & the County of Sussex afore-
said and that the Inhabitants on the one side were always
esteemed as Residents of Maryland & on the other Inhabit-
ants of Sussex aforesaid And this Deponent also saith that
the Maple Marsh is Situated at the Head of the Drains issu-
ing out of the aforesaid Beaver dams And this Deponent
further saith that the Savannahs which he hath heard called
by some by the name of the where Kilnlavannahs do Die to

Lib. J. R.

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the Southward of Green Branch aforesaid and near seven
miles within the Province of Maryland and near five Miles
below or further within the Province of Maryland than the
Place where this Deponent liveth And further this Deponent
saith not
his
Robert R Ingram
mark
Taken and Sworn to on the 29^th Day of August
Anno Domini 1759.
Jo^s Collins
before us.
W^m Ellegood

Worcester County ss^t
The Deposition of Cap^t Job Ingram aged about thirty three
years or thereabouts after being Solemnly sworn on the Holy
Evangels of Almighty God doth Depose and say That he
was born in the County of Sussex on Delaware and when he
was a very small Boy his Father removed to a Place called
the Beaver Dams in the County aforesaid and on the North
Easterly side of the said Branch & very near the Borders of
the Counties of Sussex and Somerset and a Certain Abraham
Ingram Brother to this Deponents Father settled on the
North Westerly side of a Drain of the aforesaid Branch

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