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

Lib. J. R.
& U. S.

under the Government of the Province of Maryland And this
Deponent further saith that he always understood both from
his Father and his Uncle aforesaid that the said Branch or
Drain was the then reputed Limits or Bounds between the
Counties of then Somerset and Sussex and also that he
always understood the same from Sundry other Persons both
of Sussex County as well as Somerset And this Deponent
further saith that he understood that as far as the aforesaid
Branch or Drain extended Northerly that it still was the then
reputed bounds between Sussex aforesaid and the Province
of Maryland and that this Deponent always heard it ac-
knowledged by the Inhabitants of Sussex aforesaid that a
neck of Land called the great Neck lying to the Westward
of the Drain aforesaid & on the North side of a Branch
known by the name of Gravelly Branch has always since his
rememberance been deemed to be in the Province of Maryland
and also claimed by the Inhabitants aforesaid as their Right
And this Deponent further saith that he is well acquainted
with Gravelly Branch where was formerly a Widing Place
for Travellers to pass & repass over and that there is now
a Bridge over the same Place about Six or Seven Miles
westward from the Drain aforesaid and the Road over the
aforesaid Gravelly Branch was always maintained & kept
by the Inhabitants of Maryland and that he never heard by
any Person that ever the Widing Place afs^d was ever the
Reputed Bounds between the Counties aforesaid but that it
was six or seven Miles as aforesaid within the Province of
Maryland And further saith that his Father owned a Planta-
tion to the Southward of the Drain aforesaid and near the
said Drain and that this Deponent killed Squirrels at or
about the same Plantation & altho there was then an allow-
ance for Squirrel Heads in the County of Sussex yet his
Father could get no allowance for the same because it was
deemed they were killed in the Province of Maryland And
being further asked or examined whether he knew where
John Willey (who is said to have Murdered William Out-
ten) lived saith he never saw his Plantation or where he
lived only has been Creditably informed that he lived to the
Westward of the Drain aforesaid and in the great Neck
aforesaid & within the reputed Limits of the Province of
Maryland & where is now called Worcester County And
further saith not.
Job Ingram
The above Deposition was taken this 28^th day of August

1759
To^s Collins
Before W^m Ellegood