| 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 179,180,181
Joshua M. Massey to Emily Ann Massey, January 16, 1823
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8, 1822 (Recorded January 16, 1823): Emily Ann Massey of Kent County in
Maryland buys for $3,696.00 the combined 154 acres of parts of the
tracts, Angel's Rest, Angel's Lot, Partnership, and Spring Garden
from Joshua W. Massey of Queen Anne's County in a land swap between
Ebenezer T. Massey and Emily Ann Massey of Kent County and Joshua W.
Massey and Pamela Lambden Massey of Queen Anne's County, said swap being
made possible by Act of the Legislature of Maryland passed February
21st, 1822, Chapter 164, and endorsed as to the equivalence in value of
the lands by a commission formed of James Parker, Mr. Osborne, and
William Moffitt. 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 ("179" above). |
| [Kent
County, Maryland]: 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
[illegible] following words to wit: This indenture made and executed the
eighth day of August, eighteen hundred and twenty two, between Joshua
W. Massey of Queen Anne's County and State of Maryland of the one part
and Emily Ann Massey of Kent County in the state aforesaid of the other
part. Witnesseth that the said Joshua W. Massey for and
consideration of the amount of three thousand six hundred and ninety six
dollars current money of the United States to him in hand paid by the
aforesaid Emily Ann Massey before the sealing and delivery of these
presence the receipt thereof has been acknowledged by the said Joshua
Massey doth hereby acknowledge [illegible] every part or parcel thereof
to the [illegible phrase] and discharge the said Emily Ann Massey, her
heirs, executors, and administrators [illegible words] Joshua W. Massey
hath granted, bargained, sold, aliened, enfeoffed, and confirmed and the
said Joshua M. Massey hath granted bargained sold aliened, enfeoffed,
and confirmed by these presents doth grant, bargain, sell, alien,
enfeoff, and confirm unto the said Emily Ann Massey, her heirs and
assigns, parts of the several tracts or parcels of land lying and being
in Kent County and State of Maryland, which are called and known by the
following names to wit: part of a tract of land called Angel's Rest,
part of a tract of land called Angel's Lot, part of a tract of land
called Partnership, and part of a tract of land called Spring Garden,
which said tracts or parcels of land are contained within the following
described lines and bounds: Beginning at the end of the third line of
Angels Rest and running thence South fifty one and one quarter degrees
[illegible] three hundred and thirty two perches until it intersects the
eleventh line of the survey made by Thomas Gale for Benjamin Massey,
thence with the said survey South eighty one degrees East ninety four
perches, thence South seventy five degrees East sixty and one fourth
perches, thence North twenty six and three fourths degrees East fourteen
and one fourth perches, thence South seventy three degrees East twelve
and three fifths perches, thence North twenty eight degrees East one
hundred eighty and one half perches, thence North thirty five degrees
East sixty one and one fourth perches, thence to the beginning North
fifty nine degrees West thirty five and one sixteenth part of a perch,
containing and now laid out for one hundred and fifty four acres and six
perches of land, be it the same more or less together with all and
singular the buildings improvements woods, ways, waters and waterways,
rights and liberties, privileges, hereditaments, and appurtenances
whatsoever thereunto belonging and every and anywise appertaining and
the reversion and reversions, rents, issues, and profits [illegible]
estates, rights, title, and interest whatsoever of him, the said Joshua
W.
Massey, both in law and equity of in to and out of the said tract or
parcels of land and premises herein bargained, sold, mentioned, or
intended hereby so to be,every [illegible] part and parcel thereof to
have and to hold the said tracts or parcels of land so as aforesaid
described [illegible] as aforesaid together with the buildings and
appurtenances and all and singular the other premises hereby bargained
and sold or [illegible] mentioned or intended hereby as to be in every
part and parcel thereof with this and every of their appurtenances unto
the said Emily Ann Massey, her heirs and assigns, forever and to
[illegible] for no other use, intent, or purposes whatsoever and the
said Joshua W. Massey for himself, his heirs, executors, and
administrators, doth hereby covenant, grant, promise, and agree to and
with the said Emily Ann Massey, her heirs, executors, administrators, or
assigns, that he, the said Joshua W. Massey and his heirs, said tract
or parcel of lands and premises hereby granted, bargained, and sold in
every part or parcel thereof with the appurtenances thereunto belonging
to her, the said Emily Ann Massey, her heirs and assigns, against him,
the said Joshua W. Massey and his being [illegible words] and may
[illegible] whatsoever and claiming any right, title, [illegible] and
into the same or any part thereof shall and will warrant and these send
and forever defend by these presents. In testimony whereof the said
Joshua W. Massey hereunto subscribed his name and affixed his seal the
day and year as first above written. Joshua W. Massey
Signed sealed and delivered
in the presence of Edward Eubanks John McDaniel Kent County, to wit: Received this eighth day of August the day of the within deed of and for the within named Emily A. Massey the sum of three thousand nine hundred and ninety six dollars current money of the United States being the consideration mentioned in the within deed. Josh. W. Massey
Edward Eubanks John McDaniel Maryland Kent County: On the eighth day of August, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty two, personally appeared Joshua W. Massey of the county and state aforesaid, being the party grantee [illegible line] aforesaid and acknowledged the within deed to be his act and [illegible] in the land wherein granted to be the [illegible phrase] and [illegible] bargained and sold to be the property right and the state of the within named Emily Ann Massey, her heirs and assigns, forever according to the true purport and meaning of the within deed and acts of assembly in such cases made and provided; and also at the same time personally appeared Pamela L. Massey, wife of the said Joshua W. 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 right and estate of the within named Emily Ann Massey, her heirs and assigns, forever; and the said Pamela L. Massey, being by us privately examined apart from and out of the hearing of her husband whether she does make her acknowledgment willingly and freely without her being induced thereto by force or threats of ill usage by her husband or fear of his displeasure acknowledged that she doth make her acknowledgement 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
[illegible] by an act of the Legislature of Maryland passed February
21st, 1822, Chapter 164, entitled an act for the benefit of Ebenezer T.
Massey and Emily Ann Massey of Kent County to enable them to convey to
Joshua W. Massey of Queen Anne's County a tract of land lying in Queen
Anne's County in exchange for land of equal value lying in Kent Count,
we the subscribers were [illegible] to view and value the land before
said and to endorse the deed given by the said Joshua to the said Emily
and signifying our [illegible] that the lands conveyed by the said
Joshua to the said Emily Ann are equal in value to the lands conveyed by
the said Emily and to the said Joshua. Be it therefore known that we
have reviewed and valued the lands as aforesaid and certify that we
value the lands conveyed by the said Joshua to the said Emily and by the
within deed are equal or greater in value then the lands conveyed by
the said Emily unto the said Joshua. Witness our hands and seals this
12th day of August 1822:John McDaniel James Parker
The same deed was accordingly recorded on the aforesaid sixteenth day of January eighteen hundred and twenty three by [illegible] Osborne William Moffitt Joseph Wickes, Kent County clerk
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