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

Lib. J. R.
& U. S.

Maryland ss^t

The Deposition of Thomas Soden of Dorchester County
Aged sixty three years or thereabouts being Sworn on the
holy Evangels of Almighty God before the Subscriber one of
the Right Honourable 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 Inhabitants of this Province or the re-
puted Limits and Bounds thereof Deposeth and saith that
about Eleven years past he this Deponent was present when
William Killen Surveyor of Kent County aforesaid Surveyed
& laid out for Dominick Bright and Moses Nichols a Tract
or Parcel of Land Quantity about two hundred Acres or
thereabouts the afs^d Tract of Land running half a Mile
within Lands held in Maryland and this Deponent saith that
there has been about ten or twelve thousand Staves got of the
aforesaid Land by a Certain Robert Nevens late of Whitely
Creek near Wilmington in Newcastle County to whom the
aforesaid Dominick Bright and Moses Nichols sold the afore-
said Tract of Land and further this Deponent saith not.

Acknowledged this 9^th Day of October 1759 by
before John Campbell Tho^s Soden

Maryland ss^t

The Depositon of John Pullen of Dorchester County in
the Province aforesaid Aged fifty four years or thereabouts
being sworn on the holy Evangels of Almighty God before
the Subscriber one of the Right Honourable the Lord Pro-
prietary his Justices of the Peace for the County aforesaid
relative to Knowledge of the Surveyor of Kent County on
Delaware his making Surveys within the Inhabitants of this
Province or the reputed Limits & Bounds thereof Deposeth
and saith that in the Month of September in the year Seven-
teen hundred and fifty eight he this Deponent was present
when William Killen surveyor of Kent County aforesaid
Surveyed and laid out for John Dehorty of this County &
Allen Thomas now of this Province also a Tract or Parcel of
Land the Quantity of Acres to him unknown running about
half a Mile within a Tract of Land held in Maryland where-
on he this Deponent now lives called & known by the name
of Dehortys Fortune and further this Deponent saith not.

Acknowledged this 9^th Day of October 1759 by
his
before John Campbell. John J Pullen
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