Section VI - Massey Data Bank

One Maryland Massey Family by George Langford, Jr. 1901-1996 ©Cullen G. Langford and George Langford, III, 2010

Maryland Land Records, Queen Anne's County, Liber RT #A Folio 419
Thomas Hynson Wright to James Massey, July 24, 1735

July 24, 1735: James Massey, planter, for the price of 5,500 pounds of leaf tobacco, buys from Thomas Hynson Wright and wife Mary a 120 acre tract called Friendship, located along the Unicorn Branch in Queen Anne's County.  Witnesses: Humphrey Wells and Charles Downes.  Acting for the Crown: Mssrs. Wells & Downes and [even] T.H. Wright. Note: High-resolution images of the deed at right can be viewed at the Maryland State Archives, but registration is required in advance of doing so. Once you have registered, you can access the images by entering the county clerk's initials ("RT" in this example) and volume number ("A" above) and the folio page number ("419" above).

Queen Anne's County aforesaid: August the twenty-eighth day, Anno Domini one thousand seven hundred and thirty five, the following deed was brought to be recorded viz.: Maryland aforesaid: This indenture made this twenty-fourth day of July in the year of our Lord Christ one thousand seven hundred and thirty five. Between Thomas Hynson Wright of Queen Anne's County and province aforesaid and Mary his wife of the one part and James Massey of the same named county and province, planter of the other part. Witnesseth that the said Thomas Hynson Wright for and in consideration of five thousand five hundred pounds of good sound merchantable leaf tobacco to him in hand paid or secured to be paid by the said James Massey the receipt whereof the said Thomas Hynson Wright and Mary his wife doth acknowledge and thereof and of every part and parcel thereof themselves to be fully satisfied, contented, and paid and of every part and parcel or part thereof doth exonerate, acquit, and discharge the said James Massey, his heirs, and assigns, forever by these presents doth fully clearly and absolutely give, grant, bargain, sell, alien, enfeoff, and confirm unto the said James Massey, his heirs, and assigns, forever part of a tract of land called Friendship situate lying and being in Queen Anne's County on the south side of the Unicorn Branch. Beginning at a small white oak marked with six notches viz.: three and three opposite, and running thence West South West two hundred and fifty perches then south nine degrees East eighty one perches then East North East two hundred and forty perches then North fifty four degrees West forty one perches and from thence with a straight line to the tree, containing one hundred and twenty acres of land more or less. Together with all woods, underwoods, trees, timber, [illegible], houses, outhouses, fences, orchards, gardens, ways, water, and water courses all and singular other the rights, benefits, and privileges and advantages to the same bargained premises belonging or any ways appertaining.  To have and to hold the said bargained premises with the appurtenances and every part and parcel thereof unto the said James Massey, his heirs, and assigns, forevermore and the said Thomas Hynson Wright and Mary his wife for themselves and their heirs doth covenant, grant, and agree to and with the said James Massey, his heirs, and assigns, that they the said Thomas Hynson Wright and Mary his wife at the sealing and delivery hereof are and stand faithfully seized of a good and perfect estate in free and common soccage and that the above bargained premises and every part and parcel thereof are free and clear of and from all and all manner of former or other gifts, grants, sales, leases, jointures, dowers or title of dower, rents or arrearages of rents, fines, forfeitures, mortgages, extents, entails, [illegible] whatsoever had made committed or done or suffered to be done by the said Thomas Hynson Wright and Mary his wife or their heirs or by any other person or persons whatsoever the rents and services from henceforth growing due and payable to the Chief Lord or Lords of the  fee or fees only excepted and foreprized and the said Thomas Hynson Wright and Mary his wife and their heirs got  forever quitclaim and release all the right title and interest they now have or of right might or ought to have by any ways or means and that the same is by these presents wholly released and invested in and upon the same the said James Massey his heirs and assigns forever and the said Thomas Hynson Wright and Mary his wife doth covenant grant and agree to and with the said James Massey, his heirs, and assigns, that they the said Thomas Henson Wright and Mary his wife and their heirs the above bargained premises in every part and parcel thereof shall and will forever warrant and defend against them and their heirs and against all manner of persons whatsoever. In witness whereof the parties above said to these present indentures interchangeably set their hands and seals the day and year first above written. T.H. Wright {seal} Mary Wright {seal} Signed sealed and delivered in presence of Humphrey Wells Charles Downes On the back of the foregoing deed was and was endorsed as followeth viz.: Queen Anne's County aforesaid July 24, 1735. Then came the within named Thomas Hynson Wright before us, the subscribers, two of his [illegible] Justices of the Peace for said county and did acknowledge the within deed and the lands and premises therein mentioned unto the within named James Massey, his heirs, and assigns, forever, at which day came Mary Wright wife of the within named Thomas Hynson Wright.  She the said Mary being first privately examined out of the hearing of her said husband whether she doth make her acknowledgment of the same willingly and freely and without being induced thereto by fears or threats of ill usage by her husband or fear of his displeasure who saith she doth and did acknowledge the same deed onto the within named James Massey, his heirs and assigns forever. Before ... Humphrey Wells    Charles Downes     On the back of the same deed also was endorsed viz.: Queen Anne's County aforesaid July 23 Anno Domini 1735. I hereby certify that by virtue of the commission from the Hon. Benjamin Tasker, Esquire, agent of the Right Honorable the Lord Baltimore, I have this day received from the within named James Massey the sum of four shillings and ten pence sterling for the alienation fine of the within land due to the Lord proprietors by ... T.H. Wright