Section VI - Massey Data Bank | One Maryland Massey Family by George
Langford, Jr. 1901-1996 ©Cullen G. Langford and George Langford, III, 2010 |
December 5, 1749: James Massey's patent of Massey's Addition,
a 23.75 acre parcel in Queen Anne's County in Maryland; surveyed for
the Crown by John Emory and countersigned by Benjamin Tasker. |
This may humbly certify that I, John Emory, his Lordship's Surveyor for Queen Anne's County, have surveyed and laid out for and in the name of him the said James Massey a tract or parcel of land, called Massey's Addition, lying and being in the county aforesaid. Beginning at a red oak
bounded with twelve notches standing on the East side of the Unicorn
Branch in a point below Hadley's… Over going and run from said red oak
North twenty three degrees East seventy four perches and North thirty
degrees West eighteen perches and North thirty seven degrees West thirty
four perches and North thirty three degrees East thirty nine perches
and South twenty degrees East eighty one perches and South thirty
degrees West sixteen perches and South sixty eight perches and from
there with a straight line to the said beginning red oak, containing and
now laid out for twenty three and a half acres of land more or less to
beholden of the Mannor of Baltemore.
John Emory, Deputy Surveyor of Queen Anne's County Examined and passes R {his mark} Exam. On the back of the foregoing certificate was the following receipt, viz.: I have received two shillings and six pence for the within warranty patent may therefore issue with his [illegible] approbation. 20th June 1750. Benjamin Tasker
I am Oglo Shaw.
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