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

Lib. J. R.

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their Lands under their Rights and that he this Deponent
never heard that any of the Inhabitants of Sussex County
Claimed any Lands near thereto under Pensilvania Rights &
that the said Savannah is Six or Seven Miles within the
reputed Bounds aforesaid of the Province of Maryland And
this Deponent further saith that he well knows the Place
over Gravelly Branch formerly called the Wading Place
where now is a Bridge and that that Place from all that he
ever heard or understood is six or seven Miles within the
reputed Bounds aforesaid of the Province of Maryland And
further this Deponent saith not.
Taken & Sworn to this 29 Day of August Anno John Dolby.
Dom: 1759
Jo^s Collins
Before W^m Ellegood

\Vorcester County ss^t

Edward Callaway of Worcester in the Province of Mary-
land Aged forty eight years or thereabouts being sworn on
the holy Evangels of Almighty God Deposeth and saith that
about fourteen years past he settled in Ceedar Creek Hun-
dred in the County of Sussex and as he was travelling to the
County of Sussex aforesaid he happened at the House of a
Certain Cornelius Loflees in Company with a Certain Joseph
Collins and upon their asking the said Loflees if they were
then in Maryland or in the County of Sussex the said Loflees
said that they had just then entered into Sussex County for
that the Branch near the Fence of him the said Loflees which
they had just Crossed was the Division between Sussex
County & the County of Worcester in the Province of Mary-
land and that the House of him the said Loflees was the
nearest House along the Road that was in Sussex County and
that the aforesaid Branch is the main Branch issuing out of
the Beaverdams or Drains And this Deponent further saith
that he is well acquainted with the Place where the Bridge
is over Gravelly Branch and that he hath always understood
that that Place is several Miles within the County of Wor-
cester and that he never heard that any Person claimed any
Lands under Pensilvania Tittles near the said Bridge and
that the reputed Bounds of Maryland are far above & beyond
the aforesaid Bridge and further this Deponent saith not.
his
Edward E^d Callaway
mark
Taken & sworn to this 29 Day of August
Anno Dom 1759.
Jo^s Collins
Before W^m Ellegood