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

Lib. J. R.

& U. S.

also by Virtue of a Warrant for that Purpose from their
Land Office a Tract of Land for Thomas Sooden now an In-
habitant of this Province containing One hundred and fifty
Acres near a Mile within Lands now in the Possession of
Persons holding by a Right and within the reputed Bounds
& Limits of this Province. And this Deponent further saith
that the same Day the aforesaid Survey was made the afore-
said William Killen Surveyed a Tract or Parcel of Land so
as aforesaid qualified for James Soden containing one hun-
dred & Sixty Acres joining with the Land Surveyed for
Thomas Soden and lying near a Mile within the Inhabitants
of this Province & within the reputed limits thereof And this
Deponent saith the aforesaid James Soden did cut Timber
on the afs^d Land & made thereof about two thousand Staves
And this Deponent saith he either did not hear or doth not
remember the name of either the aforesaid Tracts of Lands
but that they all join or nearly join with a Tract of Land now
in the Possession of Edward White of this County called
& known by the name of Rotterdam This Deponent further
saith that the aforesaid William Killen so as aforesaid quali-
fied Surveyed & laid out about six or seven years past a Tract
or Parcel of Land for Marmaduke Morgan now in the
Possession of Peter Nowel who lives thereon & has Cleared
thereon about twenty Acres of Ground & cut down Timber
& got thereof about four thousand Staves & Headings the
said Tract of Land being about a Mile within the Inhabitants
of this Province & within the reputed limits thereof And
this Deponent further saith that Cap^t James Anderson now
lives on a Tract of Land held by a Kent County Survey
within the reputed Bounds & Inhabitants of this Province
but was not present when the Survey was made and further
this Deponent saith not. Acknowledged this 9^th Day of
October 1759 by
John Dehorty
Before John Campbell.

Maryland ss^t
The Deposition of Philemon Cubbage of Dorchester
County Aged Sixty years or thereabouts being sworn on the
holy Evangels of Almighty God before the Subscriber one
of the Right Honorable the Lord Proprietary his Justices of
the Peace for the County aforesaid relative to his knowledge
of the Surveyor of Kent County on Delaware his making
Surveys within the reputed Limits & Bounds of this Prov-
ince & within the Inhabitants thereof Deposeth and saith
that some time in the Summer Season in the year seventeen
hundred and fifty seven he this Deponent was present when