Index

Year

Grantor

Grantee

Parcel

Acreage

Lib:No:Fol

Link

Abstract

316B

1810

William Miers and wife Mary

William McDaniel

Bardleys Gift

6.0

BC:6:108

Deed

February 17, 1810: William Miers of Kent County in the State of Maryland sells for $42.00 to William McDaniel, also of Kent County. Courses: Beginning at the North West corner of a lot, formerly belonging to Jonathan Jester and now belonging to Nicholas Smith, and running from thence North seventy four degrees West thirty two perches, thence North sixteen degrees East eighteen perches, thence North eighty six and a half degrees East forty one and a half perches, thence with a straight line to the beginning. Witnesses: Ephraim Vansant and Thomas Mullin; Ben Chambers is Kent County clerk.

316B

1810

William Miers

Rebecca Derming and Thomas Horworth

Bardleys Gift

BC:6:87

Deed

January 11, 1810: William Miers of Kent County in the State of Maryland sells for £80 a 12 acre portion of Bardley's Gift (which James Miers inherited from his late father Luke Miers, also the father of William Miers, and which was laid out for and in the name of James Miers by William Thomas, George Vansant Mann, and Benjamin Comegys agreeable to the Will of Luke Miers, deceased on a deed dated May 18, 1793) to Rebecca Derming and Thomas Horworth, also of Kent County. Courses, lying in Kent County on the main road leading from the Head of Chester River to Duck Creek in the State of Delaware: Beginning at a stone standing on the North side of the aforesaid road and running Northward by a line of a lot of land late the property of Luke Miers, deceased, son of Joseph Miers, deceased, until it comes to a stone in the line of the land which was devised to the said William Miers by his grandfather Luke Miers, thereby and with that line South seventy four degrees East to a stone at the North West corner of a lot, which was devised by Luke Miers, deceased, to the children of Joseph Rawlings, and thereby and with the line of their lot until it shall intersect the aforesaid main road, and thereby and with this road to the first beginning stone. The parcel is to be shared in equal portions of six acres each by the two purchasers. Mary Horworth, mother of William Miers and of Mary Miers, wife of William Miers, relinquishes her dower right to the said land. Witnesses: Justices of the Peace Ephraim Vansant and Thomas Mullin; Ben Chambers is Kent County clerk.

316B

1809

William Miers and wife Mary

William Webb

Bardleys Gift

10

BC:6:41

Deed

December 2, 1809: William Miers of Kent County in the State of Maryland sells for £3 a 10 acre portion of Bardleys Gift to William Webb, also of Kent County. Courses: Beginning at the lines of the [illegible] John Dulen and William Anderson lots purchased from ther same tract and running thence until it joins the West line of a tract of land called Out Range conbtaining about ten acres, lying in Kent County, it being the said William Miers' part of the said tract that was devised to William by the Will of his grandfather Luke Miers, late of Kent County. Witnesses: Justices of the Peace Ephraim Vansant and Thomas Mullin; Ben Chambers is Kent County clerk.

314B

1805

William G. Miers

Stephen Denning Vansant

town lot in Georgetown; and Bardleys Gift

TW:3:206

February 20, 1805: William G. Miers of Baltimore, formerly of Kent County in the State of Maryland sells for $500.00 to Stephen Denning Vansant all his part of an undivided lot at Georgetown Cross Roads that belongs to the heirs of Jacob Vansant, and also all his part of a parcel of woodland called Bardleys Gift, a.k.a. Miers Resurvey.  Bardleys Gift alias Miers Resurvey lies in Kent County on the Dead Branch and formerly belonged to William Miers, deceased. Witnesses: Justices of the Peace Ephraim Vansant and Cornelius Comegys; Thomas Worrell is Kent County clerk.

316B

1814

William Miers

William Gilbert

Bardley's Resurvey

200

BC:8:227

Deed

December 19, 1814: William Miers of Kent County in the State of Maryland sells for $1,200 to William Gilbert of Queen Anne's County all of Bardleys Resurvey and all the tracts of parcels held and owned by William Miers {himself} and occupied by Ebenezer Miers, 200 acres more or less.  Witnesses: Justices of the Peace Jesse Knock and Edward Eubanks; Ben Chambers is Kent County clerk.

303B

1833

William Myers and wife Ann

Perry Massey

Bardleys Gift

2+

JNG:3:112

Deed

March 19, 1833: William Myers and wife Ann of Kent County in the State of Maryland sell Bardleys Gift for $24.80 to Perry Massey, free Negro, also of Kent County. Courses: Beginning at the North East corner of a lot belonging to Benjamin Riley, free Negro, on the East side of the Dead Branch at a stone there planted and running North sixty and a half degrees West twenty five and six tenths perches, [then] North seventy eight degrees West sixteen perches, [then] North twenty two and a half degrees East eight perches, then South sixty seven and a half degrees East thirty nine and eight tenths perches, [then] South sixteen degrees East nine perches to the place of beginning, containing two acres and ten perches. Witnesses: Justices of the Peace John McDaniel and William Millan; Joseph N. Gordon is Kent County clerk.