Note: If you are interested in
tracing the twists and turns taken by the litigation in this legal
wrangle; it is all there, archaic spelling and all in the Maryland
Archives:- [Ed]
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Volume
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Pages
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1
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163
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2
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16;
59
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8
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179-180
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19
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160;
538-539 |
20
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246
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21
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176
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24
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252-252;
386
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26
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110;
126-127;
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614;
625-627 |
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19;
29;
61;
75 |
33
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63;
210
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34
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84-85;
165-166;
191-193 |
38
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138-139;
298-300
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39
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315-316
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40
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7-8
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Dates
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49.Peter Massey
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c.
1685
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Birth
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c.1731-35
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Death
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<1705
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Marriage:
Sarah
Toas
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1717
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with
wife
Sarah
petitions
Maryland Assembly to repeal 1711 Act confirming
John Toas' sale of Daniel Toas' land to Robert Roberts.
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1721
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Assembly
confirms
300
acres
of “New Munster” to Peter
Massey and wife Sarah.
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Dates
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50.Peter Massey
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c.
1715
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Birth
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1735
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Daniel
Massey,
Planter, and
Peter
Massey, Planter, petition
Maryland Assembly to set aside the 1711 Act.
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1737
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Above
petition
denied
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Dates
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69.Daniel
Massey
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1720
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Birth
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1734
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Daniel
Massey
was
evised
one
shilling by Daniel Toas III 1735: Daniel Massey, Planter, and Peter
Massey, Planter, petition Maryland Assembly to set aside Act of 1711
confirming John Toas' sale of Daniel Toas
land to Robert Roberts.
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1737
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Above
petition
rejected.
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Daniel Toas. Because so
many Massey men were named Daniel, or Daniel Toas, Massey; apparently
to honor this man; it seems logical to expect to find that he had
achieved distinction in some field.
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From the records, we know that
his land holdings were larger than the average; in his Will he disposes
of a 4,500 acre tract "New Munster" in Cecil Co., Md.; he also directs
that "lands in Pennsylvania: be sold to pay debts. He also
patented "Partnership" in Kent Co., Md.
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| To date, that is all that we
know of Daniel Toas; but we have learned from where he came:
Stockton-on-Tees. |
In one of the Court proceedings,
mention was made that Daniel Toas: "... was of Stockton, in the
Bishoprick of Durham, England."
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The Encyclopidia says that the
true name of Stockton is "Stockton-on-Tees." Reading further,
Stockton lies on the North bank of the River Tees, 51.2 miles above its
mouth; it is a Port City.
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Continuing; it seems that
Stockton belonged to the Bishop of Durham, having grown up around
Durham castle.
In 1644, the Parliamentary
troops captured Durham Castle; and in 1652 the castle was dismantled.
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By 1666, the population of
Stockton had dwindled to 544 people.
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Toas Family. We can
now readily deduce the origin of the family name: from Tees, to Teas,
to Toas; as the scribes wrote and re-wrote and copied the family name.
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In the Colonial records, the
scriveners have, as usual really battered the name Toas. I have
noted the variations listed, and surely there are more:
Toes
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Tees
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Tose
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Toses
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Tosh
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Yoes
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Toas
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Tose
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Toos
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Toe
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Todes
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Teat
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Yoas
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Teas
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Toaes
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Toads
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I have discovered no printed
Tees-Teas-Toas family history or genealogy.
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From the records I have dug
through, I have constructed the start of the family tree of Sarah Toas,
wife of Peter Massey.(1)
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Sources:
(1) Related Families: Excurses XVIV: Toas
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