Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1753-1761. 385

Worcester County ss^t
Robert Hopkins of Worcester County in the Province of
Maryland Planter Aged forty eight Years or thereabouts
being sworn on the holy Evangels of Almighty God Deposeth
and saith that about thirteen years past he was one of the
Constables of Worcester County aforesaid for the Hundred
of Nanticoke & that he in the Execution of his Office used to
serve Warrants & take in Taxables as far as the Green
Branch & from thence as far as & along the Branch issuing
out of the Head of Gravelly Branch thence along on the
other side of Gravelly Branch by the Beaverdams or Drains
as far as Robert Owens's including the great Neck which
said Branches Beaverdams & Drains this Deponent was
informed & understood were the Divisional Boundaries be-
tween the Province of Maryland & Sussex County on Dela-
ware And this Deponent further saith that he is well ac-
quainted with the Place over Gravelly Branch formerly called
the Wading Place where now is a Bridge and that that Place
is six or seven Miles within the reputed Bounds of the
Province of Maryland And this Deponent further saith that
the Inhabitants within the limits aforesaid so as aforesaid
mentioned all obeyed him as Constable and never pretended
that they resided or were within any other Government

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than that of the Province of Maryland and further this
Deponent saith not. Rob^t Hopkins
Jos: Collins
Before W^m Ellegood

Worcester County ss^t
John Dolby of Worcester County in the Province of Mary-
land Planter Aged thirty nine years or thereabouts being
Sworn on the holy Evangels of Almighty God Deposeth and
saith that he hath lived on the Branches of Deep Creek near
unto the head of Nanticoke River for thirty two years past &
that he well knows a Branch called and known by the Name
of Green Branch and also a Place called the Beaverdams
near to where a certain Abraham Ingram lived and that he
this Deponent hath been sundry times informed and always
understood that the Branch and Beaverdams aforesaid and
the Drains issuing therefrom are the Divisional Bounds be-
tween the Province of Maryland and Sussex County And
this Deponent further saith that his Plantation whereon he
now lives & hath lived for the Space of thirty years as afore-
said is distant from the Savannah which he hath heard
called the Whore Kill Savannah about one Mile and that all
the Inhabitants settled around it hold their Lands under the
Lord Baltimore and have always been quietly possessed of
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