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reputed Bounds between the County of Sussex and the County
of Worcester in the Province of Maryland which Beaver
Dams or Drains are about Seven Miles above the aforesaid
Bridge where the afores^d Wading Place was And this
Deponent further saith that afterwards he removed back to
the Place on Gravelly Branch where he Built his Mill afore-
said and where he now lives and that the aforesaid Bridge
over Gravelly Branch is seven or eight Miles within the
Bounds & reputed limits of the Province of Maryland and
further this Deponent saith not.
Richard Crockett
Taken & Sworn to this 29^th Day of August
Anno Dom 1759.
Jo^s Collins
Before W^m Ellegood

Worcester County ss^t
George Fisher of Worcester County in the Province of
Maryland Planter Aged fifty four years or there abouts
being Sworn on the holy Evangels of Almighty God Deposeth
and saith that he lives about a Mile and a half to the North-
ward of Gravelly Branch and in a neck of Land called the
Great Neck & has so done for about twenty five years past
& that he well knows a Place called & known by the name of
the Beaver Dams & also the Drains that lead therefrom by a

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certain Cornelius Loflees & that he hath always understood
and been informed both by the Inhabitants of Maryland and
Sussex County that the aforesaid Beaver Dams were the
reputed & acknowledged Bounds and Division between the
Province of Maryland & Sussex County and that when he
this Deponent was about Seventeen Years of Age he was in
Company with the Sons of one Alexander Draper an in-
habitant of Sussex County and of Ceedar Creek hundred &
travelling with them from the said Drapers House to Deep
Creek in Maryland where the said Draper had built a Mill
they informed this Deponent that when they had passed a
Bridge called Loflees Bridge which was over the Drains
aforesaid that they were in Maryland and that Drain or
them Drains were the Division between the Province of
Maryland and Sussex County And this Deponent further
saith that he well knows where John Willey who Murthered
one William Outten lived and that it is within the neck of
Land called the Great Neck and below the Beaver dams &
Drains aforesaid & within the reputed limits aforesaid of
the Province of Maryland And this Deponent further saith
that he is well acquainted with the Place called the Wading
Place across Gravelly Branch where now is a Bridge & hath

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