| 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, Talbot County, RF #9, pp. 75,76,77
William Edmondson to Phillip Massey, October 7, 1701
| October
7, 1701: Phillip Massey of Talbot County, Maryland for 20,000 pounds of
tobacco buys a 278 acre tract of land called Tilghman's Fortune
(adjacent to another piece of Tilghman's Fortune previously sold to
Robert Stapleford and also adjacent to a tract owned by Thomas and John
Booker) from William Edmondson. Court proceedings involving Robt.
Goldsborough, Wm. Cousey, Thomas Robins, Robt. Ungle, and Thomas
Emerson, Justices of the Peace in the Crown's Court. |
| This
indenture made on the twenty sixth
day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and
one. Between William Edmondson
of Dorchester County in the aforesaid Province of Maryland, merchant of
the one part and Phillip Massey of Talbot County, planter of the
other part. Witnesseth that the aforesaid William Edmondson, for and in
consideration of twenty thousand pounds of tobacco by him in hand paid,
Phillip
Massey will and truly paid or secured to be paid to the said
William Edmondson before the execution of these presents the receipt
whereof by the said William Edmondson for doth hereby acknowledge and
confess and himself to be the therewith paid and satisfied and thereof
and of every part thereof to freely release and discharge the aforesaid
Phillip Massey, his heirs, executors, administrators, and assigns,
forever by
these presents; have given, granted, bargained, sold, aliened,
enfeoffed, and
confirmed, and likewise [illegible] to fully, clearly, and absolutely
give,
grant, bargain, sell, alien, enfeoff, and confirm unto the said Phillip
Massey that tract or parcel of land containing two hundred and seventy
eight acres, being part of a
greater tract called to Tilghman's Fortune, situate lying and being on
the
North side of the head of Toad Haven Creek in Talbot County and
this said two hundred and seventy eight acres is bounded as follows:
Beginning at a marked red oak
standing by the creek side at the westernmost corner of a parcel of land
formerly belonging to the said Tilghman's Fortune and now in possession
of John Booker and running from the said oak North West one hundred and
sixty perches with Booker's land to the North corner thereof, thence
South West with his land forty nine perches, then North fifteen degrees
thirty minutes, Westerly one hundred and seventy perches, then North
eighty degrees, thirty minutes, Westerly one hundred and seventeen
perches to a bounded white oak of a parcel of land heretofore sold out
of said Tilghman's Fortune to one Robert Stapleford, then running with
the said land
North West one hundred perches, thence with the said land south west
eighty six perches
thence Northwest fifty three perches thence North East two hundred
perches thence South
East five hundred perches thence Southwest fifty perches to the first
tree bounding
on the South East and South West with Stapleford's land in on the
South West with Thomas and John Booker's land together with all and
singular plantations, wood, cleared ground, pastures, within the
aforesaid bounds and all and singular the privileges, rights,
[illegible], profits, benefits, advantages, and appurtenances whatsoever
of
the said land belonging or in any wise appertaining and all the estate,
rights, titles, issues, possessions, claims, or demands of said land of
the aforesaid William Edmondson of in or unto the same and reversion and
reversions, remainder and remainders of all and singular the before
hereby granted premises with the appurtenances to have
and to hold the said two hundred and seventy eight acres of land and
premises with their and every
of their appurtenances unto the said Phillip Massey, his heirs, and
assigns, to
the only use and behoof of said land and premises with their and every
of
their appurtenances unto said Phillip Massey, his heirs, and assigns, to
only proper use and behoof the said Phillip Massey's heirs and assigns
forever and if said William Edmondson for himself his heirs
executors and administrators for every of them doth covenant, grant, and
agree to and with the said Phillip Massey, his heirs, and assigns, in
manner
and form following, that is to say, that there is quantity of two
hundred and seventy eight acres
of land contained within the lines and bounds aforesaid and that the
said William Edmondson now hath good rightful power and lawful authority
in himself to bargain, sell, and grant the same and that the said
Phillip
Massey, his heirs, and assigns, shall from here forward peaceably and
quietly have, hold, use, possess, and enjoy the same without any manner
of
lawful or other let, bar, molestation, eviction, or expulsion whatsoever
of
him the said William Edmondson, or his heirs, or any other person or
persons whatsoever will warrant as well against the aforesaid William
Edmondson and his heirs as against all and every other person or persons
whatsoever and that if same premises shall defend or devise and defend
by him the said William Edmondson and his heirs from all manner of
encumbrances and troubles whatsoever and that he the said William
Edmondson and his heirs shall and will at any time thereafter at the
reasonable costs and charges in the law of the aforesaid William Phillip
Massey,
his heirs or assigns, make such further conveyances and assurances in
the
law of the premises to him the said Phillip Massey, his heirs or
assigns,
or him, or their counsel learned in the law shall advise. In witness
whereof the parties to these presents have interchangeably set their
hands and seals the day and year above written. William Edmondson
Memorandum:The foregoing deed of sale was endorsed on the back as follows: October 7, 1701. Came before us, the subscribers, being two of His Majesty's Justices of the Peace for Talbot County in the aforesaid province and did acknowledge the within deed to Phillip Massey. [illegible
signature]
[illegible signature] At a court held for Talbot County by His Majesty's Court and Justices of the Peace in the Town of York on the 18th day of November in the 13th year of His Majesty's Reign and Anno Domini 1701 and continued until the 24th day of the same month. Before
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