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, CD#1, pp. 439-441
Eleazer Massey to Absalom Gibbs, release, March 18, 1786

Queen Anne's County to wit.: March the eighteenth day Anno Domini one thousand seven hundred and eighty six the following instrument of writing was brought to be recorded to wit: Know all men by these presents, that whereas by an indenture of a lease or demise, bearing date the eighth day of April in the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy five, made or mentioned to be made between Negro Absalom, commonly called and known by the name of Absalom Gibbs of Queen Anne's County, free Negro, planter of the one part, and me, Eleazer Massey of said county, gentlemen of the other part, the said Absalom in consideration of the sum of twenty eight pounds sixteen shillings and seven pence common currency of said county therein mentioned to be paid to the said Absalom, and and which was accordingly paid, did demise, grant, lease, set, and to farm, let unto me the said Eleazer, my executors, administrators, and assigns all the [illegible] Absalom, his right, title, interest, property, claim, and demand whatsoever of in or to his undivided part of a tract of land called Hillmanning Plains containing by estimation fifty eight acres and an half acre of land more or less. To hold the same unto me the said Eleazer, my executors, administrators, and assigns from the day of the date of the card in part recited indenture of demise for and during and unto the full end and term of three years and an half from thence next ensuing and fully to be complete and ended, at and under the yearly rent of one peppercorn if demanded:  In which said in part recited indenture of lease was contained a proviso or condition that the same as should be void on payment of the said sum of twenty eight pounds sixteen shillings and seven pence like money aforesaid with legal interest thereon, at a day long since passed as in and by the said in part recited indenture of lease named more fully appear. And whereas the said sum of twenty eight pounds sixteen shillings and seven pence with the legal interest thereon hath been paid and satisfied unto me on the day in the said proviso or condition mentioned and limited for the payment thereof.  Now know ye that the said Eleazer Massey, in consideration of the said sum of money with the legal interest thereon having been fully paid and satisfied as aforesaid, have remised, released and forever quit-claimed, and by these presents do remise, release, and forever quit-claim unto the said Absalom, his heirs, executors, and administrators, all the estate, right, title, interest, benefit, claim, and demand whatsoever, which I, the said Eleazer Massey, my heirs, executors, or administrators can shall or may have or claim of in or to the said land and premises all or of or in any part thereof by virtue of the said in part recited indenture or other wise howsoever, so that neither I the said Eleazer, my heirs, executors, or administrators at any time thereafter shall or will claim, challenge, or demand any interest, property, benefit, or other thing in any manner whatsoever of in or to the land and premises before recited by reason or means of the said in part recited indenture or any covenant therein contained but thereof and thereupon and of and from all actions, suits and demands which I, my heirs, executors,or administrators may have concerning the same, shall be forever debarred by these presents. In witness whereof I have hereto set my hand and seal the twenty seventh day of February in the year seventeen hundred and eighty six.  Sealed and delivered in the presence of Eleazer Massey {seal} V. Downs; John Lacey On the back of the foregoing indenture was thus endorsed viz.:  Be it remembered that on the twenty seventh day of February in the year seventeen hundred and eighty six, Eleazer Massey, within named, personally came before me, the subscriber, one of the Justices of Queen Anne's County Court and did acknowledge the foregoing release to be his act and deed to and for the uses and purposes therein mentioned. V. Downs