Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1753-1761. 387

Worcester County ss^t
Levin Harvey of Worcester County in the Province of
Maryland Planter Aged thirty nine years or thereabouts
being sworn on the holy Evangels of Almighty God Deposeth
& saith that he hath always understood & been informed by
sundry Persons that a Certain Place called & known by the
name of the Beaverdams or Drains were the reputed Bounds
between the Province of Maryland & Sussex County And
this Deponent further saith that he is well acquainted with
Gravelly Branch and the Place called the Wading Place
formerly where there is now a Bridge & that he hath lived
the whole of his Life within one Mile of the s^d Bridge and
that the said Bridge is six or seven Miles within the reputed
limits aforesaid of the Province of Maryland and that he
never heard that Gravelly Branch aforesaid was a Boundary
between the Province of Maryland and Sussex County afore-
said and further this Deponent saith not.
his
Levin G. Harvey
mark
Taken & Sworn to this 29^th Day of
August Anno Domini 1759.
Jo^s Collins
Before W^m Ellegood

Worcester County ss^t
John Alexander Willey of Worcester County in the Prov-
ince of Maryland Aged twenty eight years or thereabouts
being Sworn on the holy Evangels of Almighty God Deposeth
and saith that he is well Acquainted with a Place known by
the name of the Beaverdams near to where a Certain Abra-
ham Ingram lived & that he hath been informed and hath
always understood that the said Beaverdams & the Drains
thereof were the reputed and Acknowledged Bounds Limits
& Division between the Province of Maryland & Sussex
County And this Deponent further saith that he is also well
acquainted with Gravelly Branch and the Place called the
Wading Place formerly where now is a Bridge and that he
never heard or understood that Gravelly Branch or the
Wading Place where now is a Bridge were ever by any
Persons reputed as a Division between the Province of
Maryland and the County of Sussex but that he well knows
that the said Bridge is six or seven Miles within the reputed
Bounds aforesaid of the Province of Maryland And this
Deponent further saith that he lives about four Miles above
the said Bridge in a Neck of Land called the Great Neck and
that he hath always understood that the said Neck was within

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