Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1753-1761 . 395

Mark Smith as Deputy Surveyor under William Killin Sur-
veyor of Kent County on Delaware Surveyed & laid out for
Peter Rich an Inhabitant of this County & Province by virtue
of a Warrant for that Purpose a Tract or Parcel of Land
containing as he this Deponent best remembers two hundred
Acres lying at least a Mile interlocked within Lands held in
Maryland and within the reputed limits thereof and this
Deponent saith that the aforesaid Peter Rich has Cleared
about two or three Acres and has built thereon a Dwelling
House & some other out Houses whereon Joseph Hailds now
lives & that he has good cause to believe that a great many
Staves & Heading have been got by the afores^d Peter Rich
and the said Hailds on the said Land as to his Knowledge

Lib. J. R.

& U. S.

the said Hailds & some more hirelings have been the greatest
part of the time in Season getting Staves & Heading ever
since taking up the said Land but can give no Account of the
Quantity though very large to his Knowledge and further
this Deponent saith not Acknowledged this 9^th Day of Oc-
tober 1759 by
his
Philemon P Cubbage
mark
Before John Campbell.

Maryland ss^t
The Deposition of William Lister of Dorchester County
Aged twenty five 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 of this Province and
within Lands Possessed by the Inhabitants thereof Deposeth
and saith that in the Month of September in the Year Seven-
teen hundred and fifty eight William Killen Surveyor of
Kent County aforesaid by virtue of a Warrant for that
Purpose did Survey and lay out for John Dehorty and
Allen Thomas both Inhabitants of this County a Tract or
Parcel of Land containing two hundred Acres or there-
abouts running about three Quarters of a Mile within the
Inhabitants of this Province and within the reputed limits
thereof And this Deponent further saith that the aforesaid
John Dehorty did get of the said Land about two thousand
Staves and that the aforesaid Allen Thomas did get about
three thousand Staves of the aforesaid Land and further this
Deponent saith not. Acknowledged this 9^th Day of October

1759. by
before John Campbell. William Lister

p. 245