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

Lib. J. R.
& U. S.

Branch and that the Drains of the said Branch hath a Com-
munication with a Branch that makes out of the head of
Gravelly Branch from whence also the Beaver Dams or
Drains also issue and that he hath always understood and
been informed that the aforesaid Branches Beaver Dams &
Drains were the Reputed Bounds between the County of
Sussex and the County of Worcester in the Province of
Maryland And this Deponent further saith that he also
knows & is well acquainted with the Place formerly called
the Wading Place over Gravelly Branch where now is a
Bridge and that the Place is six or seven Miles within the
reputed Bounds of Maryland and below the Beaver Dams &
Drains aforesaid and that he never heard of that Place afore-
said of Gravelly Branch being a Boundary between the
Counties of Sussex and Worcester aforesaid neither did
this Deponent ever hear or understood that any Lands there-
abouts were Claimed by a Pensilvania Right And this
Deponent further saith that he is one of the Labourers that
works on the Road leading over the said Bridge & that the
said Bridge hath been Supported & the said Road for a
Considerable distance above the Bridge hath always been
Cleared by the People of Maryland & further this Deponent
saith not.
Taken & Sworn to this 29^th Day of August 1759
Philip Connaway
Before Jo^s Collins
W^m Ellegood

Worcester County ss^t
Richard Crockett of Worcester County in the Province
of Maryland Planter Aged fifty one years or thereabouts
being sworn on the holy Evangels of almighty God Deposeth
& saith that about nineteen years past he settled at a Place
on Gravelly Branch on the Stream of which he built a Grist
Mill about two hundred yards above the Place formerly called
the Wading Place and where a Bridge now is and that each
side of the said Branch then was now is & always was as this
Deponent hath been informed esteemed and Accounted to be
within the Province of Maryland & that he never heard or
understood that it was within the County of Sussex And
this Deponent further saith that some time after he had
Settled on Gravelly Branch afores^d he Removed & went to
live within Sussex County and did live there for the Space of
two years and that he understood from & was informed by
the People of Sussex County aforesaid that the Place known
& called bv the name of the Beaver Dams or Drains were the