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(as far as this Deponent hath heard) esteemed to be within
the Province of Maryland & not within the County of Sussex
And this Deponent further saith that to his knowledge the
Road & Bridge afs^d have ever been kept & supported by the
Inhabitants of the Province of Maryland and further this
Deponent saith not.
Taken & Sworn to this 29 Day of August W^m Owens
Anno Domini 1759.
Jo^s Collins
Before W^m Ellegood

Worcester County ss^t
John Fleetwood of Worcester County Aged forty three
years or thereabouts made Oath on the holy Evangels of
Almighty God that he did live with a Certain Abraham
Ingram three years or thereabouts twenty five years Ago at
the Head of Gravelly Branch on the Beaverdams which
issueth out of the said Branch And this Deponent further
saith that he was very well acquainted with all the Drains
and Beaverdams from the Head of Gravelly Branch as far
as where John & Cornelius Loflees did live And this De-
ponent further said that he knew and was very well ac-
acquainted with the neck of Land called great Neck and to

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his Certain knowledge that all the Inhabitants worked on the
Kings Road from Gravelly Branch to Owens's Bridge and
payed their Taxes in Maryland and that all the Land to the
Westward of the Drains and Beaverdams was deemed by
the Inhabitants to be in the Province of Maryland And this
Deponent further saith that he was very well Acquainted
with the Plantation where John Willey did live when he com-
mitted the Murther on William Outten and that Plantation
was at least a Mile within the limitted bounds of Worcester
County in Maryland and this Deponent saith he never knew
nor understood that any part of the Great Neck was Claimed
by any Pensilvania Right till within this few years and to his
certain knowledge where Gravelly Branch Bridge is was a
Wading Place and now a Bridge and that the limitted Bounds
of Maryland extended six or seven Miles to the Northward
up the said Branch And this Deponent says that he was
always told by the Sussex People as well as the Marylanders
that the same Drains and Beaverdams was the Division of
the two Provinces And this Deponent further saith that he
was very well acquainted with Green Branch and that he
had his Information from the Inhabitants of both Prov-
inces that all the Lands on the Southermost side of Green
Branch was in Maryland And this Deponent says he under-
stood that M^r William Shankland Surveyor of Sussex County

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