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

Lib. J. R.
& U. S.

the Province of Maryland and never understood otherwise
untill William Shankland Deputy Surveyor of Sussex County
lately made some Surveys in the said neck and further this
Deponent saith not.

John Alexander Willey

Taken & sworn to this 29 Day of August
Anno Domini 1759
Jo^s Collins
Before W^m Ellegood

Worcester County ss^t
James Truitt of Worcester County in the Province of
Maryland Planter Aged Seventy years or thereabouts being
Sworn on the holy Evangels of Almighty God Deposeth &
saith that he hath for about sixteen years past lived on the
Northermost side of Gravelly Branch about four Miles above
the Place formerly called the Wading Place and where now
is a Bridge & that he hath always heard & understood that
that Place was within the Province of Maryland and that
he never heard of any Claim of Lands under Pensilvania
Rights at or near that Place but that he hath ever heard &
been informed that the afs^d Bridge was & is six or seven
Miles within the Province of Maryland And this Deponent
further saith that the Place where one John Willey lived &
where he hath been informed the aforesaid John Willey
Murthered one William Outten is in the same neck of Land
where this Deponent doth live called the Great Neck which
is to the Westward of a Place called the Beaverdams or
Drains and further this Deponent saith not.
Taken & Sworn to this 29 Day of August James Truitt
Anno Domini 1759.
Before Jo^s Collins
W^m Ellegood

Worcester County ss^t
William Owens of Worcester County in the Province of
Maryland Planter Aged forty three years & upwards being
Sworn on the holy Evangels of Almighty God Deposeth &
saith that he hath lived at or near the Head of Nanticoke
River & above Gravelly Branch for about the Space of thirty
years & that he is well Acquainted with & knows the Place
where the County Road crosses Gravelly Branch being the
Place which formerly was called the Wading Place & where
a Bridge now is being about ten Miles distant from the
House of this Deponent & that he hath ever understood that
the Lands thereabouts were adjudged & always hath been