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, Kent County, Liber TW #4, Folio 178-179
Benjamin Massey to Ebenezer Massey, January 16, 1823

August 9, 1822 (Recorded January 16, 1823): Ebenezer Thomas Massey buys for $12,218.75 the combined 384 acre parcels, including Angel's Rest, Angel's Lot, Partnership, and Spring Garden, from Benjamin Massey.  Also included is a four-acre tract that Benjamin bought from Cornelius Comegys that Comegys bought from the estate of a William [illegible surname] through Trustee Philip [illegible surname.]Witnesses: Edward Eubanks and John McDaniel, Justices of the Peace for Kent County. Recorded by Joseph Wickes, Kent County clerk.  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 ("TW" in this example) and volume number ("4" above) and the folio page number ("178" above).

Maryland, Kent County: Be it remembered that on the sixteenth day of January eighteen hundred and twenty three, a deed was brought to be enrolled among the land records of Kent County, the tenor where of was in the following words to wit: This indenture made the ninth day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty two between Benjamin Massey of Kent County and the State of Maryland of the one part and Ebenezer Thomas Massey of the county and state aforesaid of the other part. Witnesseth that the said Benjamin Massey for and in consideration of the sum of twelve thousand two hundred and eighteen dollars and seventy five cents current money to him in hand paid by the said Ebenezer T. Massey before the sealing and delivery of these presents the receipt whereof he, the said Benjamin Massey, doth hereby acknowledge and from every part and parcel thereof doth hereby acquit, exonerate and discharge the said Ebenezer T. Massey, his heirs, executors, and administrators [illegible] said Benjamin Massey has granted, bargained, sold aliened. enfeoffed, and confirmed and by these presents doth grant, bargain, sell, alien, enfeoff, and confirm unto the said Ebenezer T. Massey, his heirs and assigns, all those tracts or parcels of land situate lying and being in Kent County, State of Maryland, which are called and known by the following names to wit: part of a tract of land called Angels Rest and part of a tract of land called Angels Lot and a part of a tract of land called Partnership and part of a tract of land called Spring Garden, said several parcels of land are contained within the following described lines and bounds: Beginning for the [illegible] thereof at a certain stone planted at the end of the third line of Angels Rest of which stone is likewise a boundary of Meginniss's land and running from there West four hundred and twenty perches to a bounded oak, thence South twenty and one fourth perches to the East line of Partnership, thence West one hundred and thirty three perches to the North by East line of Partnership, and South by West ninety six and one half perches, thence East one hundred ninety six and one half perches to a road leading from Georgetown [illegible] road to Massey's Crossroads, then with said road South twenty two and one half degrees East twelve perches, thence South thirty six degrees East fourteen perches and South fifty two and one half degrees East eighteen perches and South seventy six degrees East thirty seven perches, thence South fifty five degrees East thirty four perches, thence South eighty one degrees East twenty four perches, thence to the beginning in a straight line containing and now laid out for three hundred and eighty four acres [illegible] and 24 perches of land. Also another tract of land containing four acres being a part of Partnership which said tract of land said Benjamin Massey purchased of Cornelius Comegys in which he, said Cornelius Comegys, purchased of Philip [illegible] trustee for the estate of William [illegible] together with all [illegible phrase] [illegible words] waters, hereditaments, and appurtenances to the several parcels of land granted and [illegible] and every of their belonging or in any wise appertaining to the same and all the estate, right, title, [illegible], property, [illegible] and [illegible] in law and equity which the said Benjamin Massey may or can have in to the several parcels of land hereby granted and sold and every of them [illegible] every part thereof. To have and to hold all and singular the above granted lands [illegible] in each and every of these with their appurtenances to the said Ebenezer T. Massey,his heirs and assigns, to his and their own proper use and behoof forever, and he, the said Benjamin Massey, for himself, his heirs, executors, and administrators, doth hereby warrant [illegible] with the said Ebenezer T. Massey, his heirs, executors, or administrators, that he, the said Benjamin Massey, his heirs and all persons claiming under him or them shall and will at all times hereafter at the reasonable request and at the proper cost in the law of in the said Ebenezer T. Massey, his heirs or assigns, make, do, execute, and suffer or cause to be made, done, executed, and suffered such fair [illegible] and other acts and deed and [illegible] which may be [illegible] of [illegible] effectual [illegible] of the aforesaid parcels of land with their appurtenances to the said Ebenezer T. Massey, his heirs or assigns, [illegible] to the true intent and meaning of this indenture as shall from time to time if the said Ebenezer T. Massey, his heirs or assigns, or his or their counsel learned in the law requires. Benjamin Massey {seal} Signed sealed and delivered in the presence of Edward Eubanks      John McDaniel Kent County to wit: On the day of the date of the within deed receipt of and from the within named Ebenezer T. Massey the sum of twelve thousand two hundred and eighteen dollars and seventy five cents current money of the United States being the consideration mentioned in the within deed. Benjamin Massey [Witness]  Edward Eubanks John McDaniel Maryland Kent County: On this ninth day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty two personally appeared Benjamin Massey of the county and state aforesaid, being the party granted in the within deed, before us, two of the Justices of the Peace for the county and state aforesaid, and acknowledged the within deed to be his act and deed and the granted property therein mentioned and thereby bargained and sold to be the property, right, and estate of the within named Ebenezer T. Massey, his heirs and assigns, forever according to the these presents true intent of the within deed and acts of assembly in such cases made and provided, and now at the same time also personally appeared Elizabeth Massey, wife of the said Benjamin Massey, before us, the subscribers, two of the Justices of the Peace for the county and state aforesaid, and acknowledged the said deed or instrument of writing to be her act and deed and the land and premises therein mentioned to be the the rights and estate of the within Ebenezer T. Massey, his heirs and assigns, forever; and the said Elizabeth Massey being by us personally examined apart from and out of the hearing of her husband whether she doth make her acknowledgment of the same willingly and freely and without being induced thereto by fear or threats of ill usage by her husband or fear of his displeasure. Taken and certified the day and year above written. Edward Eubanks John McDaniel The same deed was accordingly recorded on the [illegible] sixteenth day of January eighteen hundred and twenty three by  Joseph Wickes, clerk