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 STW #9 Folio 506-507
Nicholas Massey to Benjamin Roberts, April 17, 1811

April 17, 1811: Nicholas Massey for the sum of $500 sells his Negroes: a man named Walter, a woman named Ellery, a lad named James, another lad named Tristain, and a boy named James as well as horses, cattle, sheep, hogs, corn, feather beds, miscellaneous furniture, etc. to Benjamin Roberts of Queen Anne's County.  Witnesses: R.L. Gamble and Greenberry Gamble; R.L. Gamble as Justice of the Peace certified the transaction. 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 ("STW" in this example) and volume number ("9" above) and the folio page number ("506" above).

Queen Anne's County to wit: Be it remembered that on seventeenth day of April Anno Domini eighteen hundred and eleven the following bill of sale was brought to be recorded to wit: Know all men by these presents that I, Nicholas Massey of Queen Anne's County and state of Maryland, for and in consideration of the sum of five hundred dollars current money to be in hand paid by Benjamin Roberts at the county and state aforesaid at and before the sealing and delivery of these presents the receipt whereof it is hereby acknowledged, I have bargained and sold, released, and confirmed unto the said Benjamin Roberts, his executors, administrators, and assigns, one Negro man named Walter, one Negro woman named Ellery, one Negro lad named James, one Negro lad named Tristain, one Negro boy named James, five head of horses, eight head of cattle, ten head of sheep, twenty three head of hogs, forty barrels corn in the ear, four feather beds, [illegible] furniture, two walnut tables, and one plain table, one thousand weight of [illegible]. To have and to hold the said entails, goods, and chattels by these presents bargained and sold unto the said Benjamin Roberts to the only proper use and behoof of the said Benjamin Roberts, his executors, administrators and assigns, forever and the said Nicholas Massey for himself, his heirs, executors, administrators the said entails, goods, and chattels and Negroes aforesaid unto the said Benjamin Roberts, his executors, administrators, and against all and every other person or persons whatever [illegible] and will warrant and forever defend by these presents. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal this 17th day of April 1811. Nicholas Massey {seal} Signed sealed and delivered in the presence of R.L. Gamble     Greenberry Gamble On the back of the original bill of sale was thus endorsed to wit: Received the day of the date of the within instrument of writing by the within mentioned Benjamin Roberts the sum of five hundred dollars current money being the consideration money within mentioned. Nicholas Massey Witness R.L. Gamble     Greenberry Gamble Queen Anne's County aforesaid. Be it remembered that, on the 17th day of April in the year 1811, personally appeared before me, the subscriber, one of the Justices of the Peace for the county aforesaid Nicholas Massey and acknowledged the within bill of sale to the his act and deed and the several articles therein mentioned to be the right and property of the within named Benjamin Roberts, his heirs, and assigns, forever according to the true intent and meaning thereof. Acknowledged before R.L. Gamble