Person
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Description
of Transaction
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Location
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Date
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Daniel Toas
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County
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Lib.:No.:Fol. |
Date |
Cecil
County: Daniel Toas is the father of John Toas and Sarah Toas.
Sarah Toas married Peter Massey.
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2:81 |
1706/02/19 |
| Kent
County: Sarah (nee Toaes or
Toas, whose father was Daniel) Massey, bride of Peter Massey, of Kent
County in Maryland inherits a 350 acre parcel called London Bridge from
John Toaes (Toas) son of Daniel Toas. |
JS:N:112 |
1709/05/12 |
| Cecil
County: Daniel Toas,
Senior, in his Last Will and Testament dated April 26, 1691, bequeathed
the land to be equally divided among his three children, i.e., his sons
Daniel Toas and John Toas, and to his daughter Sarah Toas (now Sarah
Toas Massey). |
2:260 |
1714/01/20 |
| Kent
County: 200 acres of
Partnership, formerly owned by the late Daniel Toas, is sold by Peter
Massey and wife Sarah. |
BC:1:21 |
1714/06/05 |
| Kent
County: A 1,000 acre
portion of a 3,000 acre tract called Partnership is sold by Peter
Massey and wife Sarah, daughter of Daniel Toas, Sr. |
BC:1:283 |
1717/02/25 |
| Kent
County: A 200 acre parcel,
part of Partnership, is sold by Peter Massey, planter, and wife Sarah
(heir to Daniel Toas, mariner). |
BC:1:260 |
1717/12/04 |
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Samuel V. Mace
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County
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Lib.:No.:Fol. |
Date |
Cecil
County: Dr. Samuel V. Mace
of Cecil County in the State of Maryland buys goods and
chattels from William D. Morris, also of Cecil County.
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WHR:1:264 |
1858/05/20 |
| Cecil
County: Samuel V. Mace of
Cecil County in the State of Maryland buys for $2,000.00 from Thomas Ford and his wife Helen M. Ford, also of
Cecil County, part of as tract of land lying in Cecil County in the
Village of Cecilton. |
HHM:9:608 |
1858/12/11 |
| Cecil
County: Samuel V. Mace of
Cecil County in the State of Maryland mortgages for $2,000.00 to Thomas
Ford, also of Cecil County, all of a tract of land lying in Cecil
County in the Village of Coalton. |
WHR:1:619 |
1858/12/11 |
| Cecil
County: Samuel V. Mace
(Massey) of Cecil County in the State of Maryland buys for $1,250.00
from Richard D. Aiken and his wife
Elizabeth A. Aiken, also of Cecil County, all of a 1/2 acre parcel of
land located in the Village of Cecilton. |
WHR:2:342 |
1860/01/02 |
| Cecil
County: Samuel V. Mace of
Cecil County in the State of Maryland mortgages for his debt of $591.00
to Richard D. Aiken, also of Cecil County, all of a parcel of land
located in the Village of Cecilton. |
WHR:3:264
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1860/01/02 |
| Cecil
County: Richard D. Aiken of
Cecil County in the State of Maryland assigns for $591.00 paid to him
by Isaac B. Parker the entirety of the lands and property mortgaged to
Richard D. Aiken by Samuel V. Mace (Massey) by deed dated January 2,
1860 and recorded in Liber
WHR No.3, Folio 264. |
WHR:3:368 |
1860/03/16 |
| Cecil
County: William Reed and
his wife Elizabeth Reed of Harford County, Ann Reed, Benjamin Reed and
his wife Rebecca Reed, Joshua Reed and his wife Sarah Elizabeth Reed,
and John Reed and his wife Eliza Reed, all of Cecil County, all in the
State of Maryland, sell for $200.00 to Samuel V. Mace (Massey) also of
Cecil County, in fee simple, all of a lot or parcel of ground lying in
Cecilton |
WHR:4:237
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1861/09/23 |
| Cecil
County: Samuel V. Mace
(Massey) M.D., of Cecil County in the State of Maryland, buys for
$500.00 from H.M. Vanzant and his wife
Anna E. Vanzant, also of Cecil County, all that parcel of land located
in John Town near St. Paul's Methodist Episcopal Church in Cecil County
and bounded by lands of William H. Emerson, Jeremiah C. Price, William
H. Knock, and the public roads leading from John Town to Pearce's Nook,
provided that if the said H.M. Vanzant shall pay on or before February
4, 1866, to the said Samuel V. Mace the sum of five hundred dollars
with interest thereon from the present date, payable in three different
payments as follows: One hundred and sixty eight dollars on or before
February 4, 1864; one hundred and sixty six dollars on or before
February 4, 1865, and the remaining one hundred and sixty six dollars
on or before February 4, 1866, then this instrument of writing shall be
null, void and of no effect. If default should occur, Samuel V. Mace
has the authority to sell this parcel at public auction with
appropriate notice. |
WHR:5:497 |
1863/02/04 |
| Cecil
County: Samuel V. Mace of
Cecil County in the State of Maryland sells for $1,200.00 to Susan
Beaston all that parcel located in the Village of Cecilton ... it being the same parcel that was conveyed to
Samuel V. Mace by Thomas Ford and his wife Hellen M. Ford by deed dated
December 11, 1858 and recorded in Liber
HHM No.9, Folio 608. Should Samuel V. Mace satisfy this mortgage by
repayment of the $1,200.00 debt on or before February 6, 1867, then
this present conveyance become void and of no effect. |
WHR:6:138 |
1864/02/09 |
| Cecil
County: Samuel V. Mace of
Cecil County in the State of Maryland sells for $527.50 to Ann E.
Vansant all that property which is described in a deed of mortgage from
Hamilton M. Vansant to the said Samuel V. Mace dated February 4, 1863
and recorded in Liber
WHR No.5, Folio 497, the quantity of interest being conveyed being
the interest of Samuel V. Mace under the said mortgage from and after
the date of the present deed. |
WHR:7:82 |
1864/02/09 |
| Cecil
County: Samuel V. Mace of
Cecil County in the State of Maryland pays the last $591.00 of
the mortgage debt (which has been assigned by Richard D. Aiken) to
Isaac B. Parker, and so title to the land used to secure the debt is
hereby conveyed to Samuel V. Mace by the present deed. The
relevant mortgage was recorded in Liber
WHR No.3, Folio 264. Isaac B. Parker was assigned the balance of
the mortgage by Richard D. Aiken by deed recorded in Liber
WHR No.3, Folio 368. |
WHR:6:412 |
1865/01/02 |
| Cecil
County: Samuel V. Mace of
Cecil County in the State of Maryland sells for $1,500.00 to John Piser
all that parcel of land located in the Town of Cecilton ... it being the same parcel of land which was
conveyed by Richard D. Atkinson (Aiken) and his wife Elizabeth A.
Atkinson (Aiken) by deed dated January 2, 1860 and recorded in Liber
WHR No.2, Folio 342. |
WHR:7:539 |
1865/04/19 |
| Cecil
County: Samuel V. Mace of
Cecil County in the State of Maryland buys for $1,000.00 from John
Piser and his wife Arabella Piser all that parcel of land lying in the
Town of Cecilton ... it being the same piece of land which was
conveyed to John Piser by Sameul V. Mace on this same day, provided
that if we, John Piser and my wife
Arabella Piser, pay to Samuel V. Mace $1,000.00 on or before April 19,
1866, then this mortgage shall be null and void. Witness: Justice of
the Peace William N. Pearce; Charles H. Haines is Cecil County clerk.
On the bottom of the record is this notation: I hereby release the
foregoing mortgage; September 8, 1869 [signed] Thomas P. Jones,
attorney for Dr. Samuel V. Mace, deceased. |
WHR:6:517 |
1865/04/20
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| Cecil
County: William H. Mace and
his wife Henrietta M. Mace, Charles R. Mace, John H. Mace, Carville V.
Mace, and Sophia V. Mace of Baltimore County, Alford Mace of Baltimore
City, Franklin Mace and his wife Frances R. Mace of Montgomery County,
and Thomas P. Jones and his wife Ann C. Jones of Cecil County, all in
the State of Maryland, surviving heirs of the late Samuel V. Mace,
deceased, of Cecil County, sell for $3,000.00 to Mrs. Susan N. Allen of
Cecil County in fee simple all those two lots or parcels of land lying
in Cecilton, Cecil County, Maryland, and which are described in deeds,
one made by Thomas Ford and wife to Samuel V. Mace and recorded in HHM
No.9, Folio 608, and the other made by William Reed and others to
Samuel V. Mace and recorded in Liber
WHR No.4, Folio 237. Witness: George Councilman and Justice of the
Peace for the City of Baltimore W.H. Hebden; certified by Alford Mace
and John Longnecker, Clerks of Superior Court of Baltimore City. |
HRT:1:392 |
1867/02/06 |
| Queen
Anne's County: John Brown & David H. Crane, commissioners
appointed by the Circuit Court of Queen Anne's County to divide the
real estate of John Hendris, deceased, and Mary Ann Baker and George
Vickers, executors of Samuel E. Baker, late of Kent County, deceased,
sell to William H. Mace, Charles R.
Mace, John H. Mace, Carville V. Mace, and Sophia V. Mace, all of
Baltimore County, Franklin Mace of Montgomery County, Ann C.Jones, wife
of T.P. Jones of Cecil County, and Alfred Mace of Baltimore City. |
SED:3:346 |
1868/01/17 |
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John Mace
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County
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Lib.:No.:Fol.
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Date
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| Dorchester
County: Nicholas Mace of
Dorchester County in the Province of Maryland gives to his son John
Mace and daughter Elizabeth Mace one slave called Tanfill; should
Elizabeth Mace marry, John Mace and his heirs of his body lawfully
begotten to get her share of the slave Tanfill; likewise, one slave
called Janny shall go to my daughter Ann Mace Sharshane and to the
heirs of her body lawfully begotten; only the first child of the
aforesaid woman slave shall go to my son Thomas Mace and the second to
my daughter Ann Mace Sharshane; and all the aforesaid slaves shall
remain and be for the use of my loving wife during her life and that
she may have the work and occupation of them also during her life and
then to go as above mentioned. |
Old:8:410 |
1730/04/07 |
| Dorchester
County: John Mace, planter
of Dorchester County in the Province of Maryland, for 1,809 pounds of
tobacco and £34 8/-to him paid by Mason Shehawn became security to
Doctor William Murray, and for which sum as security to indemnify the
said Mason Shehawn, I, John Mace, do sell, make over and deliver unto
Mason Shehawn the following articles: ... All these goods and animals to remain as
security with Jon Mace unless Mason Shehawn pays the associated debt
within one year from this date, in which case the sale becomes null and
void. |
Old:14:621 |
1752/06/15 |
| Dorchester
County: John Mace and his
wife Mary of Dorchester County in the Province of Maryland sell for £53
5/- to Jean Fishwick, daughter of the late William Fishwick, who made
the payment before his death, the two tracts called Cornwell
and Head
Range lying at the head of Fishing Creek. |
Old:15:32 |
1754/02/07 |
| Dorchester
County: Thomas Mace,
[Senior] planter of Dorchester County in the Province of Maryland,
sells for £10 to Thomas Mace [Junior] son of the aforesaid Thomas Mace,
all that 77 acre parcel called Mace's
Back Range, and a 61 acre part of the parcel called Cornwell,
both lying in Dorchester County, adjoining and contiguous to each
other, within the following metes and bounds: Beginning at a marked gum
standing in Hodson's Branch, then running up the said branch North
eight degrees East fifty three perches, then North forty degrees East
forty perches to another marked gum, then North ten degrees West one
hundred and seventy perches, then West South West ninety four perches
to [yet another] marked gum standing at the end of a division line
between John Mace and the said Thomas Mace, the younger, and from
thence South one hundred and ninety perches to a marked maple standing
on the side of the said branch, containing by implication one hundred
and thirty eight acres. |
Old:21:117 |
1766/09/09 |
| Dorchester
County: Thomas Mace,
[Senior] planter of Dorchester County in the Province of Maryland,
sells for £10 to John Mace, son of the aforesaid Thomas Mace, a 66 acre
portion of the tract called Mace's
Back Range, 25 acres of the tract called Cornwell,
and 21 acres of the tract called Outlet,
all lying contiguous to and adjoining each other in Dorchester County,
and to the West of a line drawn North from a marked maple standing by
the [side] of a branch called Hodson's Branch, being a division line
between Thomas Mace, son of the said Thomas Mace, and John Mace, to a
marked gum one hundred and ninety perches, then South seventy five
degrees West one hundred and twelve perches to a marked white oak
standing on the West side of the aforesaid tract called Outlet, being a
division line between Nicholas Mace and the said John Mace. |
Old:21:120 |
1766/09/09 |
| Dorchester
County: Thomas Mace,
Senior, of Dorchester County in the Province of Maryland, sells for £2
to John Mace, also of Dorchester County, parts of the tracts called Cornwell
and Outlett,
which are contained within the following metes and bounds: Beginning at
a marked gum being the division tree between Thomas Mace, Junior, and
the said John Mace and running from thence with a straight line to a
cedar post standing in the head of a gut [?] which is the head of the
Church Creek and which Gut is to the Westward of the dwelling house of
Thomas Mace, Senior, and from the said post two perches wide back o the
beginning gum tree, containing two acres. |
Old:26:21 |
1772/10/02 |
| Dorchester
County: Nicholas Mace asks
for and is granted a commission to reestablish the boundaries of his
tract called Cornwell;
the commission is composed of the substantial and capable landowners:
Thomas Jones, Stevens Woolford, John Anderson, and Arthur Whitely.
Thomas Jones and Stevens Woolford took over this task and obtained the
following depositions: (1) Absalom Thompson, age about sixty one,
described the stump of a tree that he had heard from James Busick that
is was Mace's boundary, but that the stump was marked instead of the
first boundary which stood near by; (2) James Busick, age about fifty
two, stated that the aforesaid stump was the boundary of Cornwell as he
had heard directly from Nicholas Mace and Thomas Mace; and also that he
heard John Mace also describe the stump as the boundary of Cornwell;
(3) Colman Mace, age about forty three, said that he heard his father
and many others say that the stump in question was marked for the first
boundary of Cornwell; and (4) Absalom Thompson - again - now at another
stump - said that John Mace took him to this place and told him that
this white oak was the original boundary. Accordingly, the
commissioners put down new cedar posts at the positions of the two
original boundary trees. |
Old:27:304 |
1774/08/11 |
| Dorchester
County: John Mace, planter
of Dorchester County in the Province of Maryland, buys for eighteen
pounds in gold from Thomas Callendar, also of Dorchester County, all
that 18 acre part of a tract called Tootell's
Venture, lying upon a branch of Blackwater River called Hodsons
Branch in Dorchester County, lying between a tract called Mace's
Purchase and another tract called Mace's
Back Range, beginning at a marked post standing near the land
called Mace's Purchase |
JCH:1:314 |
1780/03/07 |
Dorchester
County: John Mace, planter
of Dorchester County in the Province of Maryland buys for three pounds
in gold from Nehemiah Vickars and his wife Nancy, planter, also of
Dorchester County, a 9 acre portion of that part of a tract called Head
Range that lies in Dorchester County on the West side of a cove
that runs up between Nicholas Mace's and James Besick's commonly called
the Indian Gut ... Thence follows this statement: We hereby certify
that the within named John Mace acted for and on our parts and behalf
in carrying on the lawsuit against a certain James Busick whereby we
recovered a judgment for the within bargained and sold land and
premises out of Dorchester County Court by virtue of a a lease of
ejectment brought against the said James Busick on May 10, 1774, he the
said John Mace paying the sixpence of the said suit for us. In witness
whereof we have set our hands the day and year aforesaid.
Nehemiah
Vickers
|
JCH:1:311 |
1780/03/17 |
| Dorchester
County: Nicholas Mace,
Senior, planter of Dorchester County in the State of Maryland, sells
for £10 to his son. Nicholas, Mace, Junior, also of Dorchester County,
66-1/2 acres in two tracts lying in Dorchester County known as Cornwell
and Head
Range as well as another tract called Outlett,
which said parts of the aforesaid tracts are contiguous and adjacent to
each other, and are contained within the following metes and bounds:
... division formerly between Thomas Mace and John Mace, deceased ...
containing sixty six and a half acres. |
NH:2-4:481 |
1784/09/27 |
| Dorchester
County: John Mace of
Dorchester County in the State of Maryland petitions the Justices of
Dorchester County to set up a commission to reestablish the boundaries
of his tract called Head
Range, lying in Dorchester County. The commissioners are John
Bromwell, Moses LeCompte, Richard Patison, Stenens Woolford, all
gentlemen of Dorchester County. John Dickinson, gentleman, is Presiding
Judge of Dorchester County Court; N. Hammond is Dorchester County
clerk. Moses LeCompte and Richard Patison were subsequently certified
and sworn by Justice of the Peace Thomas Jones on Arpil 15, 1786.
Depositions were taken: (1) Edmond Mace, age about fifty six, stated
that about twenty years ago he saw Jonathan Partridge (Patridge)
reverse the home course of Head Range down to the water side, and there
he set his compass; and when he, the deponent, sighted through the
compass along the home course, reversed, across the creek and it struck
a cedar bush on the opposite shore, which place is the same or near the
place he now shows the commissioners; and the deponent further saith
that Jonathan Partridge was at the time of his running the reverse
course of Head Range, a sworn surveyor; and the deponent further saith
that about thirty three years ago he, the deponent, was requested by
his uncle, John Mace, to lay off part of the aforesaid Head Range that
he, the aforesaid John Mace, sold to James Busick that he began at the
first bounder of Head Range and run in the reverse home course to the
main road and then began to lay off the aforesaid part that was sold to
Busick in the following manner: Ninety four perches on the said
reversed home course from the main road, then down to the Indian Cove,
then up the said cove to the main road, then with the road to the
beginning, which part has been since recovered of James Busick by the
heirs of the aforesaid John Mace; and further the deponent saith not on
June 10, 1786. Witnesses; Moses LeCompte and Richard Pattison, Junior.
(2) Thomas Mace, age about fifty two, states that about thirty five or
six years ago he, the deponent, was sitting on the post that now
standing where the deponent now stands; and the deponent saith that it
was settled by four freeholders by the consent of all concerned
parties, being James Busick, Absalom Thompson, Thomas Mace, & John
Mace; and further the deponent saith that the same post now standing
where the deponent stands his uncle John Mace and Absalom Thompson
showed him the same place and told him it was the first bounder of Head
Range; and since that about five or six years ago he, the deponent,
heard James Busick acknowledge the same post to be the first bounder of
Head Range; and the deponent further saith that when the aforesaid post
was put down, he saw the roots of the tree dug up; and this deponent
further saith that about twenty years ago he, the deponent, saw
Jonathan Partridge run the home course, reversed down to the water and
then set up his compass and sighted across the creek the same course,
and it struck a bush, which place he now shows to the commissioners;
and the deponent further saith that about the same time Absalom
Thompson showed the deponent the place where the line ran between him,
the said Thompson, and the deponent's father Thomas Mace, which place
is the same he now shows to the commissioners, but he does not
recollect that he heard Thompson say what land that was a line of; and
the deponent further saith that the aforesaid Jonathan Partridge was at
the time of his running the reverse course of the Head Range, a sworn
surveyor; and the deponent further saith that about forty years ago he
saw William Grantham sight the home course of Head Range reversed from
the first bounder and it struck about four feet to the North of a pine
on the East side of the creek, which place he now shows to the
commissioners; and further, the deponent saith not on June 10, 1786.
Witnesses: Moses LeCompte and Richard Pattison, Junior. The
commissioners, after due deliberations, then stuck down a barrel stave
so as to stand at the distance of ten feet from a cedar bush standing
on the East side of Church Creek and about forty feet to the Southward
of a large pine standing near the water's edge and a little to the
Eastward of the house where Col. Thomas Woolford now lives; and to
commemorate the place where the bush stood as mentioned in Thomas
Mace's deposition to be in the home line of Head Range, the
commissioners have caused a barrel stave to be stuck down, which stave
stands five feet to the Northward of the place shown by Edmund (Edmond)
Mace as aforesaid. |
NH:5-8:428 |
1786/06/13 |
| Dorchester
County: Nicholas Mace,
planter of Dorchester County in the Province of Maryland, buys for £10
from James Mace, also planter of Dorchester County, 66-1/2 acres from
parts of three land parcels: Part of Cornwell,
part of Head
Range, and part of Outlett,
all lying together in Dorchester County within the following metes and
bounds: ... a marked white oak standing on the South side of a gut
called Indian Gut, it being a division formerly between Thomas Mace and
John Mace, deceased. |
NH:9:3 |
1786/07/17 |
| Dorchester
County: Nicholas Mace,
planter of Dorchester County in the Province of Maryland and wife
Alefair (Alesair) Mace, sells for £133 to Thomas Lockerman,
also of Dorchester County, 66-1/2 acres of the tracts called Cornwell,
Head
Range and Outlett,
all lying together in Dorchester County ... standing on the South side
of a gut called Indian Gut, it being a division formerly between Thomas
Mace and John Mace, deceased. |
NH:9:201 |
1787/02/06 |
| Dorchester
County: Thomas Colsten
(Colston) of Dorchester County in the State of Maryland, trustee to the
insolvent Thomas Kallendar, sells for £21 12/- 8p to John Mace,
planter, also of Dorchester County, the 5-3/4 acre tract called Tootell's
Venture. |
HD:6:178 |
1793/11/09 |
| Dorchester
County: William Mace,
planter of Dorchester County in the State of Maryland, sells for £100
in gold or silver to John Mace, also planter of Dorchester County, as
one tract, formed of the tracts Dess,
Mace's
Back Range, and Cornwell,
that lies in Dorchester County upon the Hodson's Branch that issues out
of the Blackwater River, and to the Southward of a division line
between William Mace and his brother Edmund (Edmond) Mace given to him
by his father in his Will, all contiguous and adjoining each other. The
sale is contingent upon the actual payment of the £100 in gold or
silver by April 1, 1800. |
HD:9:314 |
1796/05/02 |
| Dorchester
County: James Mace of
Dorchester County in the State of Maryland petitions to have the
boundaries of his land called Head
Range reestablished by a commission, subsequently chosen from among
Thomas Jones, Ezekiel Vickars, William Vickars, and Roger Woolford.
Ultimately, Ezekiel Vickars and William Vickars were suitably sworn;
and then Col. Thomas Jones and Roger Woolfdord were also sworn. Several
depositions were then taken: (1) Edmond Mace, age about fifty five,
stated that about twenty years ago he was with Jonathan Patridge at the
beginning bounds of Head Range, and there Jonathan reversed the home
course of Head Range and came down to the water side on the said course
and then set his compass as he expected on the same course and asked
Edmond, the deponent, to look through it, and it pointed to a cedar
near where the deponent now stands; and further the deponent states
that formerly there used to be disputes about the division between
Abraham Thompson and Thomas Mace, and that the division fence was often
moved on the aforesaid Thomas Mace, but that he, the deponent, did not
know that ever these movings of the division fence was on the line
properly run; and further the deponent saith not on November 30, 1784.
(2) Thomas Mace, age about fifty one, stated that about thirty five or
six years ago where he, the deponent, now stands, it was settled by
four freeholders by the consent of all concerned parties, that is,
James Busick, Absalom Thompson, Thomas Mace and John Pace; and that
further the deponent states that his uncle, John Mace, and Absalom
Thompson showed him the same place and told him it was the boundary of
Head Range, and since about fifty five or six years ago he, the
deponent heard James Busick acknowledge the same post to be the first
boundary of Head Range; and the deponent further saith that when the
aforesaid post was put down, he saw the roots of the true disch [?] up;
and further the deponent saith not. (3) Solomon Busick, age about fifty
three, stated that about forty years ago he saw Major Henry Ennalles
run from John Mace's boundary which he understood since was the first
boundary of Head Range and run from the said boundary as he understood
with Mr. Mace's line to the place where the deponent now showeth, being
about eight feet from the place shown to the Northward of two persimmon
trees which was generally allowed to stand on Mr. Mace's land; and
further the deponent saith that some time before Major Ennalles run the
before mentioned land he saw Mr. Grantham run at the insistence and
request of his father and Mr. Mace the division line between them and
the course was of there running of the line was that Mr. Mace contended
the division fence stood on him but when they run the line they found
the division fence stood on his father's land; and further the deponent
saith that the line Mr. Grantham run very near agreed with Mr.
Ennalles's running; and further the deponent saith that Mr. Mace before
mentioned was John Mace, the owner of that part of Head Range; and
further the deponent saith that he heard Joshua Busick say he saw
Edmond Mace sight across the creek the division lines between his
father in law and brother that Joshua Busick said he split the
difference; and further the deponent saith that he understood that the
division fence now standing is the half way where formerly the division
line stood and where the line before mentioned runs, and that when he
understood the splitting the difference; and further the deponent saith
that his brother Joshua Busick told him the line that Mr. Patrisdge run
went under the boughs of the holly and the line as he meant was
the line of Mr. Thomson's resurvey; and further the deponent saith not
on December 11, 1784. (4) Philemon Brannok, age twenty eight, stated
that he was born and always resided in this neighborhood and that he
remembers when a fence run near a persimmon tree mentioned in the
deposition of Edmond Mace, but whether the said fence was a division
fence between Mace & Thompson, this deponent cannot undertake to
say, nor does he remember to have heard it called & when the fence
run by the tree before mentioned he believes Mace tended the lands on
the East side of the said fence and he himself has seen the said lands
on the east side of the fence tended in corn by old Nicholas Mace, and
old Mr. Thompson himself and afterward his tenant Joshua Busick used to
tend on the West side of said fence. Old Mr. Thompson got Edmond Mace
to run his lands round and it came down as the fence now stands, and it
was run with a wooden chain & staked out from the woods to the
creek and after this running he believes the fence was moved after and
placed upon the line as staked out, and this was done by the aforesaid
Nicholas Mace and Joshua Busick; he does not know that this was a
division fence, but it was said old Mr. Thompson's line came down to
the place that was stalked out. This deponent was present when the line
was run. After the fence was moved Mace tended the lands on the East
side of the fence and Busick those on the West side of said fence. He
cannot tell how long ago this was, but he might be then twenty years
old or less, and after they had run the said Thompson's land as he hath
before mentioned they went round the head of the creek and sighted from
a post down to the opposite side of the creek. This deponent did not go
with them but remained on the North side of the creek and the line so
sighted run equal with the line on this the North side of the creek.
When Edmond Mace run the lands before mentioned he did it at the
request of Thompson. He believes the line run exactly as the fence now
stands. He saw the fence moved, and it was sit as the stakes now stuck,
at least that part which he saw moved, which was fifteen panels next to
the woods, but he does not know that the whole of the fence was sit as
the stakes were stuck, the line, as they then run it, runs over the
road on the swamp side. And this deponent further saith not on
April 30, 1785. (5) Jemima Busick, age about forty years, stated that
she formerly lived on Absalom Thompson's lands ten years and has been
removed from said lands between seven and eight years. She thinks that
some time between a year or eighteen months after her late husband
Joshua Busick came to live on the lands of the late Mr. Thompson her
husband [illegible] that Mace had some part of White
Haven which he had leased from Thompson in his Mace's possession
insisted that Thompson should have his lands run, and Thompson &
Mace applied to Edmond Mace who was brother to Nicholas Mace and son in
law to Thompson to get him to run his lands. Her husband often said to
her that Edmond Mace did not do Thompson justice for that he did not
give him his right, for he had divided the spoil between them he had
given about half to one and half to the other; on hearing him say so
often, she asked him if Thompson had his right how far he would run in
upon Mace, he answered he would take all that point and run very near
Nicholas Mace's peach orchards and near or under two persimmon trees
which the deponent now shows as those she understood to be meant by her
husband and would come very near or would strike Nicholas Mace's
kitchen and that the line would then run between Nicholas Mace's gate
and where the fence now stands. He also said he wished the two
old men Maces and Thompson would have it settled in their time, for
that after they were gone it would occasion a lawsuit or a war. She has
often understood that the division fence formerly stood near the
persimmon tree mentioned in Edmond Mace's deposition, and she thinks
the fence as it now stands appears to be moved further in upon
Thompson's lands than it stood when she lived here, and it appears to
her to be nearer the persimmon tree, but she does expect it may conceit
on her. That the conversations she mentions to have had with her
husband was at their own house, and he described to her how Thompson's
line ought to run, but he never showed her the place or any of the
places to which it should run, nor were they in sight of them at any
time when the conversations happened. She thinks she so well
acquainted with the lands, having lived on the creek for several years
and on Thompson's lands a year or a year and a half that she could not
have mistaken her husband in the place he described to her, and she
knew of no other persimmon trees near the peach orchard than those she
has shown. Her husband was bred and born and had always lived in this
neighborhood on the place where James Busick now lives. Her husband had
never in any of these conversations told her how he knew that
Thompson's lands run as he described. [And she] does not know that her
husband ever saw Thompson's land run, except when run by Edmond Mace.
After the fence was moved on the running of the lands by Edmond Mace
[she] thinks her husband assisted in putting up the division fence. She
had heard her husband say that he kept up on half that division fence.
Her husband after that, as far as she knows, never tended or used any
of the lands on Mace's side of the fence while she lived on Thompson's
lands. Her husband came in one day after Edmond Mace had made the
division between Nicholas Mace and Thompson and said that Nicholas Mace
had cut down or had ordered someone to cut down a holly tree in which
he had done very wrong, for it was as good as a boundary to Thompson's
lands. It appears to her the holly tree stood about as far to the
eastward of the present division fence as the persimmon tree mentioned
by Edmond Mace stands to the Westward of the said fence. [She]
does not remember of any other holly tree; it was a large spreading
topped tree. [She] understood by her husband that Thompson's lines
[were] near that holly tree and that she understood him was what he
meant when he said it was as good as a boundary. This deponent being
requested to go out and endeavor to show the place having taken a view
of the grounds saith that when she formerly knew the place it was
sometimes tended in corn and sometimes uncultivated, and being now sown
in wheat she cannot show the place where the said tree stood. And this
deponent further saith not on April 3, 1785. (6) Edmond Mace, age about
fifty five, stated that twenty years ago he was present when Jonathan
Patridge sighted the home course of Head Range from the post to the
water; and he, the deponent, has also sighted it himself. [He] knows
where the division fence between Absalom Thompson and Nicholas Mace
formerly stood; and further he saith that the said fence formerly stood
forty three strides further to the Westward than it does now. The
deponent has this day measured the distance by striding it out. [He]
does not know of [how] the said fence came to set where it was or that
it was on the line of Head Range. At the same time when Absalom
Thompson was about to make the resurvey called Addition
to White Haven, this deponent understood that his father Thomas
Mace, who held the part of Head Range now in dispute, and Edmond
Brannock both had older warrants than Mr. Thompson and that his father,
whose warrant was the eldest of them, told Edmond Brannock that unless
he would let Thompson lay his warrant on some of the vacancy, he would
lay his own warrant on it and Absalom Thompson in the presence of this
deponent promised Nicholas Mace, the son of the aforesaid Thomas Mace,
that he would let him have all the lands that lie between where the old
division fence stood and where it now stands, but he understood from
Nicholas Mace afterwards that Thompson would not let him have the lands
which he had promised him. Further, this deponent saith that when
a boy he remembers that the division fence stood sixteen strides still
further Northward and Westward; this was forty years or more ago.
After Thompson left White Haven, the division fence was moved and
Jemima Busick lived on White Haven and has been informed by Joshua
Busick that he helped to keep up the division fence as it now stands.
[He] does not recollect to have ever heard Mr. Thompson say anything
about this division fence as it now stands. He believes the
division fence as it was moved and stood the second way was kept up,
and Absalom Thompson and Thomas Mace who used the lands on one side of
the fence and Mr. Thompson used them on the other. In cross
examination this deponent saith that the time when the agreement was
made between Thompson and Nicholas Mace as before mentioned, this
deponent believes the place where the fence now stands was a part of
the vacancy which Thompson was to let Nicholas Mace have. When Patridge
made Thompson's survey, the cleared land was not staked out, nor was it
staked out at all except where the line was near a tract called Timber
Neck. This deponent saith that when he spoke to his father and
brothers tending the lands up to the division fence as aforesaid, he
did not understand they tended it as being their lands or within their
lines, and he believes that the lands were vacant up to the lines
[illegible] White Haven. This deponent further saith that he believes
the lands from the South West end of the division fence as it now
stands up to the division fence as it formerly stood was vacant land,
but [he] does not know whether it did or did not go nearer to the water
than the persimmon tree, but [he] believes it might go a small matter
nearer the creek. [He] believes the vacancy did not go nearer the creek
than the old lines of the old tract called White Haven. [He] does not
remember he ever saw White Have run until within these few years. He
had twenty years ago frequently sighted the reverse line of Head Range
at the request of his father and none of the sightings ever agreed with
the present division fence; [he] believes they run to the Southward of
the fence, buy he does not know what occasions him to do so. This
deponent further saith that he was some time last Summer summoned as a
witness to his brother Nicholas, to appear upon a land commission to
declare whether he had ever seen the reversed home line of Head range
run or sighted. [He] thinks the lines he has heard his brother say the
lands before mentioned were vacant. Taken & sworn on April 8, 1785.
(7) Edmond Brannock, age about forty four, saith that better than
twenty years ago he accompanied Edmond Mace and Absalom Thompson;
Edmond Mace had been running some vacant land adjoining to White Haven,
and after they had done, Absalom Thompson asked Edmond Mace to plat
down the division line between him, Absalom Thompson, and Nicholas
Mace, but whether he did or not, this deponent does not know. At that
time the division fence stood in further upon Absalom Thompson's land
than it does now, but how much, he does not know. Nor does he
know [how] the division fence came to be moved or why it was moved, nor
by whom. [He] thinks he has heard that the fence was a division fence
between Nicholas Mace and Absalom Thompson and has heard it so talked
in the neighborhood and also from Nicholas Mace, but not from Absalom
Thompson; and as he recollects at the time when the fence [being]
spoken of stood in upon Thompson's lands, he lived in White Haven, but
at the time when it was moved further in to the Eastward &
Southward, he, Thompson, had removed from White Have to Blackwater.
[He] does not know that the fence stood where he mentions because the
line of Head Range run there or not. When the division fence was moved
as aforesaid, it was a good deal talked of in the neighborhood and to
be hard upon Nicholas Mace, though this deponent does not know why it
was moved, only by whom. The fence of which this deponent speaks was
not moved until after the resurvey was made by Thompson, called
Addition to White Haven. [He] has been intimately acquainted with these
lands twenty or thirty years and has always understood that the fence
was a division line between Nicholas Mace and Absalom Thompson; on
being asked from whom he had heard this was a division fence as
aforesaid, he saith he does not recollect any person from whom he heard
it except from Nicholas Mace and his mother, but [he] verily believes
he has heard it from others of the neighbors, but to name any
particular person is not in his power. Taken and sworn on April
8, 1785. (8) Thomas Fitchew, aged about sixty seven, saith that about
forty four years ago he lived with Mr. John Mace, and this deponent
remembers that during the time he lived with the aforesaid Mr. Mace
that he was shown the division line between Mr. John Mace and James
Busick, and that the said line was told to him to be the division
line extended across the Church Creek to a cedar that stood on the
North side of the aforesaid creek, the place now shown, and further the
deponent saith that to the best of his knowledge he had this
information from Mr. James Mace who was the owner of the land adjoining
to the aforesaid division line and on which he than lived; and further
this deponent saith not on July 25, 1785. (9) Thomas Mace, age about
fifty two, saith that about forty years ago he, the deponent, saw
Wiliam Grantham sight the home course of Head Range and that the said
line went near the place now shown; and further the deponent saith that
about twenty odd years ago that Absolom Thompson showed him, the
deponent, near where the deponent now shows, but he, the deponent, does
not know what line it was, and further the deponent saith that about
twenty years ago he saw Mr. Patridge run the home course of Head Range
down to the water and then set his compass and sighted across the creek
and told the deponent it struck a bush, which bush as well as he can
recollect stood near the place he now shows, but he saith he is not
positive. And further the deponent saith that a few months ago a former
commission met on the above mentioned land; he, this deponent, declared
on his oath that at that time he did not know that ever he saw the said
land run at that time, but the deponent since that remembers that he
saw Jonathan Patridge run it. On the question being asked, whether he
now remembers whether his father and Jonathan in particular said it was
the home course of Head Range he was sighting, answered that he does
remember they said it was the home course, and further the deponent
saith at the time that Mr. Patridge sighted the course across the creek
that there was many bushes along the creek side beside the one
mentioned. And further the deponent believes that the said bush might
be standing about fifteen years ago there; and further the deponent
saith not on August 1, 1785. (10) Edmond Mace, age about fifty five,
saith that about twenty years ago he, this deponent, sighted the line
of Head Range reversed, which struck a large pine at the place now
shown; and further this deponent saith that about twenty years ago when
his uncle John Mace sold part of Head Range to James Busick he, the
deponent, laid off the part so sold to the said Busick and that he
began to lay off the said part in the home line of Head Range but does
not remember that he showed the place of beginning to Mr. Barrow, the
surveyor, when he laid down the lands between Elizabeth Meddiss (Medes)
and others and James Busick; and further this deponent believes the
place where he began to lay off the new part of Head Range for the said
Busick was in the true home line of the said Head Range. This deponent
further saith that when Mr. Barrow ran the said line it did not agree
with the line as he, this deponent, ran it, but [instead] ran to the
right hand that he believes that when he came near to the water that he
varied from the line as he ran it above one perch or perhaps better.
And further, this deponent saith not on August 1, 1785. The
commission had met on November 30, 1784, and on several later occasions
to take the above depositions and subsequently set the metes and bounds
of Head Range as follows: We certify that the division fence bears from
the fourth Eastmost corner of the new stone house North sixty three and
a half degrees East nine perches, and from the aforesaid corner of the
aforesaid stone house to where the holly tree stood is thus North
seventy three and three quarter degrees East thirty eight perches, and
from the aforesaid corner of the said stone house to the two persimmon
trees is thus South sixty degrees east fifteen perches; the course and
distance from the Eastmost corner of the aforesaid stone house to a
stake put down at the North side of the peach orchard shown by Jemima
Busick is thus South thirty four degrees East twelve perches. The
course and distance from said corner of said stone house to the
dwelling house is South forty nine degrees West thirteen and a half
perches, and from thence to take the course and distance to the two
persimmon trees standing over the creek the objects bears South sixty
two degrees West then run of South three degrees West seventeen
perches, then the trees bears South seventy five degrees West
[illegible]. [signed] Thomas Jones, Ezekiel Vickars and Roger Woolford. |
HD:14:1 |
1798/03/31 |
| Dorchester
County: William Colsten
(Colston) by his attorney Jonah Bayly put forth a petition to
Dorchester County Court to create a Commission to divide the
several tracts lying in Dorchester County that were amassed by
Thomas Colsten in his lifetime and which have since descended to James
Colsten, Thomas Colsten, Elizabeth Colsten, all of full age, and to
Samuel Colsten, an infant under the age of twenty one, his only
children and heirs at law. ... also
the Northerly room on the lower floor where John Mace lives, being on
said Lot No.4 with one-third privilege of all the out houses and
likewise a privilege to and from the County Road and full enjoyment of
the aforesaid privileges both as to ingress and regress ... |
ER:5:72 |
1818/03/26 |
| Dorchester
County: John Mace of
Dorchester County in the State of Maryland buys for $340.00 from Levin
Moore, also of Dorchester County, the slave boy Cullie Stephens, age
about fourteen or fifteen years. |
ER:5:561 |
1819/07/19 |
| John Mace
of Dorchester County in the State of Maryland buys for $612.50 plus
$1.00 from Noah Dixon, trustee appointed by the Chancery Court of
Dorchester County to sell the real estate of M. Garrison Dixon, late of
Dorchester County, consisting of part of the tract called Keens
Inclosure and Lot No.Six as surveyed by Arthur Bell according to
his plat and certificate dated October 14, 1824 ... divisional line between Amelia Keene and the
aforesaid Garrison Dixon, thence binding with said line South fifty
five and a quarter degrees East seventy two perches to Martin L.
Wright's Lot No. Four. |
ER:11:77 |
1828/05/20 |
| Dorchester
County: John Mace of
Dorchester County in the State of Maryland sells for $612.50 to Noah
Dixon, also of Dorchester County, the very same tract called Keens
Inclosure and Lot No.Six which is located in Dorchester County on
and near the County Road near Church Creek, and which was described in
Liber ER No.11, Folio 77. |
ER:11:78 |
1828/05/20 |
| Dorchester
County: John Mace, William
A. Barrow, Thomas C. Jones, Charles U. Pell, Hugh Neild, and Whitefield
Moolford of Dorchester County in the State of Maryland buy for $5.00
from Levin Richardson, also of Dorchester County, the tract lying in
Dorchester County on the North side of a well known cart road leading
from the County Road to the timbered land of the said Levin Richardson,
generally known as Neild's Road ... [for a schoolhouse, it would seem from the
largely illegible remainder of this deed - GL,III, ed.] |
ER:12:503 |
1832/02/15 |
| Dorchester
County: John Mace and his
wife Mary M. Mace, both of Dorchester County in the State of Maryland,
sell for $30.00 to Thomas C. Jones, John Jones, and William Cooper,
also of Dorchester County, 3/4 acre of the tract lying in Dorchester
County near the Worlds End Bridge and near the Forrest Road which
intersects the County Road near where Edward Griffith lived and died,
the said lot being a part of Lot No.One of the land sold by Henry Page,
trustee for the sale of George Graham's real estate [see Liber
ER
No.14, Folio 94]. |
ER:14:385 |
1835/01/26 |
| Dorchester
County: John Mace of
Dorchester County in the State of Maryland buys for $2,400.00 from
Samuel LeCompte, also of Dorchester County, the land known as Colsten's
Good Will, which Samuel LeCompte had obtained from William Colsten
of Dorchester by deed dated February 5, 1830, in order to secure
payment of Colsten's debts and subsequently sold on August 13, 1830 ...
a division line
between William Holsten and John S. Barrow, deceased. |
ER:15:510 |
1836/11/28 |
| Dorchester
County: Joseph Stewart of
Dorchester County in the State of Maryland buys for $2,141.875 from
John Bunting and his wife Rose Ann Bunting, also of Dorchester County,
the tracts called Blackford,
part of Mace's
Chance, part of Addition
to Chance, and part of Colstens
Goodwill (Good Will), lying in Dorchester County ... a locust post, a bounder for that part of
Colstens Good Will conveyed to John Mace. |
ER:17:315 |
1839/06/21 |
| Dorchester
County: John Mace of
Dorchester County in the State of Maryland buys for $1,499.60 from
James A. Stewart, trustee appointed by the High Court of Chancery to
dispose of the real estate of Joseph Stewart, late of Dorchester
County, all of the farm where Thomas Mace, son of John Mace, now
resides, embracing the following tracts: Blackford,
Mace's
Chance, Addition
to Chance, and Colsten's
Good Will, containing two hundred and thirty acres, but subject to
the widow's dower right. |
WJ:2:433 |
1845/08/12 |
| Dorchester
County: John Mace and his
wife Mary Mace of Dorchester County in the State of Maryland sell for
$500.00 to Thomas Mace, also of Dorchester County, all the 231 acre
farm located near Church Creek in Dorchester County and embracing the
following tracts: Blackford,
Mace's
Chance, Addition
to Chance, and Colstens
Good Will, containing two hundred and thirty one acres, subject to
the right of dower of the widow of Joseph Stewart, it being the same
land purchased from James A. Stewart, trustee for the sale of the real
estate of Joseph Stewart, by deed dated August 12, 1845, and recorded
in Liber
WJ No.2, Folio 433. For courses and distances, refer to the deed
from John Bunting and wife to Joseph Stewart dated June 12, 1839 and
recorded in Liber
ER No.17, Folio 315. |
WJ:5:121 |
1849/09/03 |
|
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Alexander Massey
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County
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Lib:No.:Fol.
|
Date
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| Worcester
County: Transaction from
Moline S.H. Fassitt to Alexander Massey ... not yet located. |
GMH:8:474 |
1700/01/01
|
| Worcester
County: Alexander Marsey
(Massey ?) of Worcester County in the Province of Maryland buys for £30
from John Fassitt, planter, also of Worcester County, the 100 acre
Southern portion of the 300 acre tract called Nathan's
Chance, lying in Worcester County on the sea side. |
B:257 |
1750/06/01 |
| Worcester
County: Johnson Massey of
Worcester County in the Province of Maryland sells for £18 5/- to
Nehemiah Noch the entirety of the tract called Carmon which was willed
by his grandfather Alexander Massey to his father William Massey and
thence to him, the said Johnson Massey. |
E:309 |
1762/05/01 |
| Worcester
County: Alexander Marsy
(Massey ?) of Worcester County in the Province of Maryland sells for
£50 to John Fassitt, Senior, also of Worcester County, a 100 acre
portion of the 300 acre tract called Nathen's
Chance, lying in Worcester County on the sea, which was patented to
John Fassitt, Senior. |
F:452 |
1764/08/01 |
| Worcester
County: Alexander Massey of
Worcester County in the Province of Maryland buys for £221 from
McClamey (McClammy) Jones, also of Worcester County, the 128 acre
parcel called Carmel
that McClamey Jones obtained from Johnson Massey (originally part of a
two thousand acre tract granted to William Stevens on June 11, 1769 in
Sinepuxon) that had come into Johnson Massey's ownership. |
F:326 |
1765/04/16 |
| Worcester
County: John Massey (son of
Alexander Massey) of Worcester County in the Province of Maryland buys
for £45 from Powell Pattey, also of Worcester County, all that tract of
land called Silver
Street and Penney Street in two parts ... Pleasant
Lott, now in the possession of John Massey, lying near the Head of
Synapuxon Rock. |
H:631 |
1771/12/02 |
| Worcester
County: John Massey (son of
Alexander Massey), planter of Worcester County in the Province of
Maryland, buys for £37 from William Stephens (Stevens), also planter of
Worcester County, all that tract called Eagle's
Choice, lying in Worcester County back in the woods near a stream
called Herrin (Hearon) Creek. |
I:2 |
1772/01/13 |
| Worcester
County: Alexander Massey of
Worcester County in the State of Maryland buys for £100 from Alexander
Franklin, also of Worcester County, all that parcel of land described
in Alexander Franklin's grandfather Alexander Massey's Will, it being
part of a tract belonging to Alexander Massey, deceased, lying in
Synipuxent Neck and contiguous to another parcel called Carmel. |
Y:621 |
1806/03/28 |
| Worcester
County: Alexander Massey,
planter of Worcester County in the State of Maryland buys for $200.00
from Isaac Hill, planter, also of Worcester County, one slave and child
named Siria about eighteen years old. |
Z:369 |
1808/05/20 |
| Worcester
County: Alexander Massey of
Worcester County in the State of Maryland sells for $1,500.00 to Henry
Franklin, Senior, also of Worcester County, all the lands which John
Massey, father of Alexander Massey [passed] to him, called Carmel,
Penny
Street & Silver Street, and Pleasant
Lott. |
AL:480 |
1821/05/05 |
| Worcester
County: Lambert E. Powell
and his wife Louisa Powell and Rachel Massey sell for $233.00 to
John A. Massey and Kendle (Kendall) Massey, also of Worcester County,
all their right, title and interest in the lands which were devised to
them by John A. Massey, Senior, lying in Worcester County and known as
Brick Ridge, Penny
Street & Silver Street, and Pleasant
Lott, near the head of Herring Creek and on the public road leading
from the same, which land was willed by the father of John A. Massey to
his sons Alexander Massey, John Massey, and Kendall Massey to be
divided between them. |
AW:326 |
1830/09/11 |
| Worcester
County: Alexander Massey of
Worcester County in the State of Maryland buys for $1,500.00 from Henry
Franklin, also of Worcester County, all those lands (Carmel,
Penny
Street & Silver Street, and Pleasant
Lott) which were conveyed to Henry Franklin by Alexander
Massey by deed dated May 5, 1821, [and recorded in Liber
AL,
Folio 480]. |
AX:135 |
1831/04/14 |
| Worcester
County: Alexander Massey,
Senior, of Worcester County in the State of Maryland sells for $600.00
to Alexander Massey, Junior, also of Worcester County, all the lands to
be conveyed after his death which he inherited from his father John
Massey according to the Will dated July 16, 1785, including the land
and marshes on which Alexander, Senior, now lives called Carmall (Carmel),
lying in Worcester County in Synapuxent Neck containing three hundred
acres, also three tracts of land over the bank called Penny
Street & Silver Street and Pleasant
Lot, containing thirty acres, including all the lands now owned by
Alexander, Senior. |
AX:207 |
1831/07/20 |
Worcester
County: Alexander Massey,
Junior, of Worcester County in the State of Maryland buys for $85.00
from Jacob White and his wife Elizabeth White, also of Worcester
County, a part of the tract called Carmell (Carmel)
that William Fassitt sold to Jacob White ... on the East side of said Massey's road that leads
from the dwelling house to the woods ... a division between said Massey and this part
...
|
JCH:4:393 |
1837/05/17 |
| Worcester
County: Kendall Massey,
Junior, and his wife July (Julia) Ann Massey of Worcester County in the
State of Maryland sell for $500.00 to John A. Massey, also of Worcester
County, the 167 acres of lands which descended to Kendall Massey,
Junior, by the death of his father John Massey who died intestate,
including Buck
Ridge (Buckridge), Pleasant
Lot, Penny
Street, and Holly
Grove, which composed the farm on which John Massey lived at the
time of his death, lying in a neck called Maddy Neck adjoining the land
of Kendall Massey, Senior, on the South and Powell Patty's (Pattey's)
land on the West and Moses Johnson's land on the North and Alexander
Massey, Senior, on the East, agreeable to a division formally agreed
upon by John Massey, Senior, Kendall Massey, Senior, and Alexander
Massey, Senior. |
GMH:1:325 |
1838/03/19 |
| Worcester
County: Alexander Massey
and his wife Sarah Jane Massey, both of Sussex County in the State of
Delaware, sell for $3,250.00 to Edward J. Henry of Worcester County in
the State of Maryland, the several tracts that were conveyed to
Alexander Massey by his father, Alexander Massey, Senior, by a deed
dated July 20, 1831, being the same lands that were devised to
Alexander Massey, Senior, by his father, John Massey, grandfather of
the said Alexander Massey, Junior, by his Last Will and Testament dated
July 16, 1785, being the same lands where Alexander Massey, Senior,
lived and died, called Carmel,
lying in Worcester County in Synapuxent Neck adjoining the lands that
Lemuel Showall purchased from Cornelius Fassitt, containing three
hundred acres; also a part of three tracts located on the creek called Piney
(Penny ?) Street, Plain Street and Pleasant
Lot, containing thirty acres; also a tract that Alexander Massey,
Junior, purchased from Cornelius Fassitt by deed dated June 7, 1837,
that lies in Synapuxent Neck and contains forty acres and is called
Carmel; and also the tract that Alexander Massey, Junior, purchased
from Jacob White by deed dated May 17, 1837, lying in Synapuxent Neck
that contains eight and a half acres. |
GMH:8:491 |
1846/01/02 |
| Worcester
County: Kendall Massey,
Senior of Worcester County in the State of Maryland sells for $1,000.00
to John A. Massey also of Worcester County, his share of the lands
which Kendall Massey inherited with his brothers Alexander Massey, John
A. Massey, Daniel Massey, and the said Kendall Massey by the Last Will
and Testament of John Massey, their father, dated July 16, 1785. The
lands have been equitably divided according to a plat dated November 3,
1801, and now the lands which are being sold total one hundred and
eighty four acres, being Black
Ridge, Eagle
Choice and Holly
Grove. |
EDM:1:406 |
1848/04/29 |
| Worcester
County: John A. Massey and
his wife Eliza Jane Massey, both of Worcester County in the State of
Maryland, sell for $1,200.00 to Milby Griffin the tracts called Buckridge,
Pleasant
Lot, Penny
Street and Holly
Grove, lying in Worcester County in a neck called Muddy Neck
adjoining the lands of Kendall Massey, Senior, on the South and Laban
J. Taylor's lands on the West, and William R. Pitts lands on the North
and Lemuel Showall on the East, containing one hundred and sixty seven
acres in the whole, more or less, agreeable to a division formerly
arranged by John Massey, Kendall Massey, Senior, and Alexander Massey. |
EDM:7:287 |
1855/08/25 |
|
Benjamin Massey
|
County
|
Lib.:No.:Fol.
|
Date
|
| Queen
Anne's County: Benjamin
Massey of Kent County in Maryland buys back for 586 pounds, 6
shillings, 8 pence (to be paid in installments) from Benoni Harris and
wife Sarah a tract of land called Reviving
Springs (purchased from Benjamin Massey and wife Sarah.) |
STW:3:482 |
1796/02/09 |
| Qneen
Anne's County: Benjamin
Massey and his wife Elizabeth of Kent County in the State of Maryland
sell for £583 6/- 8p (and for
6,200 pounds of tobacco ?) to
Benoni Harris, also of Kent County, the tract called Reviving
Springs which Eleazer Massey, father of the aforesaid Benjamin
Massey, purchased from Samuel Ridgeway, Esquire, deceased, and his wife
Littilia on September 8, 1787, then granted by deed to his two
daughters Sarah Massey and Elizabeth Massey, being the undivided estate
of said Sarah Massey (now Sarah Harris, the wife of Benoni Harris) and
the aforesaid Elizabeth Massey. |
STW:3:491 |
1796/02/14 |
| Queen
Anne's County: Benjamin
Massey and his wife Elizabeth of Kent County in the State of Maryland
sell for £583 16/- 8p to Benoni Harris, of Kent County in the State of
Delaware, part of a tract called Reviving
Springs, lying in Queen Anne's County;see Liber
STW No.2 Folio 491 & 492. |
STW:5:272 |
1800/05/01 |
| Kent
County: Benjamin Massey of
Kent County in Maryland for 500 pounds buys a 120 acre parcel called
Angel's Lott (adjoined by land of John Gibson) from William Geddes,
Esquire, and wife Mary (represented by John Thomas, Esquire) of
Philadelphia, who inherited the land from Simon Wilmer, father of Mary
(nee Wilmer) Geddes. ... Another
transaction involved land devised to William Geddes by John Pryon of
New Castle County, Delaware. |
TW:1:525 |
1801/02/20 |
| Kent
County: Benjamin Massey of
Kent County, Maryland buys for 700 pounds from Elijah Massey and
Nicholas Massey a 100-acre parcel of land that adjoins lands belonging
to the estate of Robert Little. |
TW:2:149 |
1802/03/15 |
| Kent
County: Benjamin Massey of
Kent County in the State of Maryland sells a 100 acre tract for £700 to
Frederick Boyer, also of Kent County. ... [adjoining] land formerly
belonging to Robert Little (deceased). |
TW:3:263 |
1805/08/26 |
| Kent
County: Elijah Massey and
Benjamin Massey of Kent County in the State of Maryland sell a 54-1/2
acre portion and a 2-1/4 acre portion of Angels Rest for £552 to
Casparis Meginniss, also of Kent County. |
TW:3:274
|
1805/09/05 |
| Kent
County: Benjamin Massey of
Kent County in the State of Maryland sells two portions of Partnership,
one of 145 acres, the second containing 117 acres, for £447 10/- to
Casparis Meginniss, also of Kent County. |
TW:3:275 |
1805/09/05 |
| Kent
County: Benjamin Massey of
Kent County in the State of Maryland buys for £1,700 two portions of
Partnership, one of 145 acres and the second having 117 acres, lying in
Kent County, from Casparis Meginniss of Kent County and his wife Mary. |
TW:3:299 |
1805/10/17 |
| Queen
Anne's County: Benoni
Harris and his wife Sarah Massey Harris of Kent County in the State of
Maryland sell for £1,125 to Samuel Cacy of Queen Anne's County, Sarah
Harris's undivided moiety in 179-1/4 acres of the land which Sarah
Massey Harris with her sister Elizabeth Massey, wife of Benjamin Massey
of Kent County, inherited from their father, Eleazer Massey, deceased,
called Reviving
Springs, lying in Queen Anne's County. |
STW:7:373 |
1805/10/28 |
| Kent
County: Elijah Massey of
Kent County in the State of Maryland sells for 7/- 6p to Benjamin
Massey, also of Kent County, the 121 acre parcel of Angels Rest that
Elijah bought from John William and [illegible name.] |
BC:5:187
|
1808/02/19 |
| Kent
County: Benjamin Massey of
Kent County in the State of Maryland sells a 54-1/2 acre portion of
Angels Lot for £552 10/- to Casparis Meginniss. ... a bounds between
Benjamin Massey and Casparis Meginniss described in the plat by the
letter "A." |
BC:5:207 |
1808/03/08 |
| Kent
County: Benjamin Massey of
Kent County in the State of Maryland buys, for $1,500.00, a 60 acre
portion of Angels Rest and 15 acres of woodland in Partnership from
Moses Tenannt and wife Frances H. Tennant, also of Kent County. The
parcel lies in the North West corner of the roads leading from Masseys
Cross Roads to the Head of Sassafras River and from the aforesaid Cross
Roads to Georgetown, containing sixty acres, and also fifteen acres of
woodland contained and being in the before-mentioned tract called
Partnership adjoining the lands of the heirs of the late John Massy
(Massey) and John Neuman. |
BC:6:106 |
1810/02/19 |
| Kent
County: George Reynolds
Massey, gentleman of New Castle County in the State of Delaware, sells
a 3 acre portion of London
Bridge Renewed in Bridge Town, Kent County, Maryland for $200.00 to
Doctor John Thomas of Kent County in the State of Maryland. Courses,
bounded by the following lots and parcels: On the South bounded by the
Publick Road leading from Smyrna to Popes Landing on the Chester River,
adjoining to and on the North side of said road, and running by and
with the most Southerly line of a lot sold by Gilbert Falconar to
Helathiel [spelling ? - GL,III,ed.] Ireland and including what is known
as Irelands Lot, bounded on the West by land deeded by Gilbert Falconar
to Isaac Spencer, bounded on the North by a parcel sold by Gilbert
Falconar to Thomas Gilpin, and on the East by ground conveyed by
Gilbert Falconar to Abraham Falconar and William Miers, containing
three acres. Witnesses: Cornelius Comegys and Benjamin Massey |
BC:6:202 |
1810/08/31 |
| Kent
County: Benjamin Massey and
John Thomas, Justices of the Peace of Kent County in Maryland, witness
a deed of sale of portions of The Forest and Chester Grove in Kent
County totaling 127-1/2 acres for $618.00 from Joshua Vansant of the
Borough of Wilmington in the State of Delaware and his wife Elizabeth
to John Newcomb of Kent County in the State of Maryland. |
BC:6:473 |
1811/07/15 |
| Kent
County: Benjamin Massey,
Esquire, of Kent County, buys for £710 the 142 acre tract called Angels
Rest from Winder Massey, gentleman of Baltimore County, who had bought
the tract from his grandfather Elijah Massey. |
BC:6:479 |
1811/07/15 |
| Kent
County: Elijah Massey, out
of love and affection for Pamela Lambden Massey (daughter of Benjamin
Massey) and Francis Massey (daughter of James Massey) gives the 229
acre tract called Angels Rest (Elijah's present home) to Pamela and
Francis as tenants in common with the proviso that, should Pamela die
unmarried before the age of 21, her share of Angels Rest should go to
Carolyn Massey (another daughter of Benjamin Massey). Angels Rest
was acquired by Elijah from Thomas Witherspoon and adjoins lands of
Casparis Meginniss and Benjamin Massey. |
BC:6:476 |
1811/07/16 |
| Kent
County: Benjamin Massey,
Esquire, in order to secure a debt of £710 owed to Winder Massey,
gentleman of Baltimore, sells in a mortgage deed the 142 acre tract
called Angels Rest to Winder for $5.00, which sale becomes null and
void if Benjamin makes payment of £355 on October 1, 1811 and another
payment of £355 on October 1, 1812, plus legal interest. In the
meantime, Benjamin is free to occupy and use the land and premises as
he wishes. Winder Massey had previously obtained the land (on
March 19, 1811) from his grandfather and sold it to Benjamin in an
earlier transaction. |
BC:7:10 |
1811/09/22 |
| Kent
County: Benjamin Massey of
Kent County in the State of Maryland completes the purchase of the
tract called Partnership from Casparis Meginniss which was initiated
August 19, 1805. |
BC:7:215 |
1812/12/07 |
| Kent
County: Jonathan Vanhorn
and wife Elizabeth of Bucks County in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
sell a 142 acre portion of Goose
Haven for $876.00 to Benjamin Massey of Kent County in the State of
Maryland. ... Goose Haven
descended to Elizabeth, the daughter and heir of William Comegys, from
William Comegys, Senior. |
BC:7:289 |
1812/12/18 |
| Kent
County: Benjamin Massey of
Kent County and State of Maryland buys for $826.87 the 142 acre tract
called Goose
Haven (said tract inherited by Elizabeth (nee Comegys) Vanhorn from
the William Comegys, Senior and her own father William, and adjoining
the land of Arthur Wheatley) from Jonathan Vanhorn and wife Elizabeth
Vanhorn. |
BC:7:289
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|
1813/01/18 |
| Kent
County: Winder Massey of
the city of Philadelphia transfers ownership of the 142 acre tract
called Angels Rest back to Benjamin Massey, having received timely
repayment of the £710 debt plus legal interest owed by Benjamin to
Winder. Winder previously had been given the land by his
grandfather (on March 19, 1811) and subsequently sold it to Benjamin. |
BC:7:309 |
1813/02/03 |
| Kent
County: Casparis Meginniss
and Benjamin Massey of Kent County in the State of Maryland agree on
the boundaries of a tract now called Meginniss
Part of Angels Rest Resurveyed as determined by the following
Patent of Resurvey granted September 17, 1811 and performed by Simon
Hicks, Esquire, Kent County Surveyor. |
BC:7:442 |
1813/09/16 |
| Kent
County: Benjamin Massey and
wife Elizabeth of Kent County and State of Maryland sell for $1,065 a
142 acre tract of land called Goose
Haven (previously purchased by Benjamin from Elizabeth {nee
Comegys} Vanhorn, to whom it was deeded by her father William Comegys,
and adjoining one parcel owned by John Nicoret and another parcel owned
by Arthur Wheatley) to James Meredith, once of Queen Anne's County and
now of Kent County. |
BC:8:52 |
1814/01/11 |
| Kent
County: Benjamin Massey, of
Kent County and State of Maryland, buys for $180 an 18+ acre tract
called Adventure from David Semans of Venice County in the State of New
York. David Semans [Senior] the father of the present grantor,
had purchased Adventure from Catherine Semans, one of the daughters and
heirs of Lambert Semans, whose father, William Semans, purchased the
land from Thomas Ringgold, which land the present David Semans, the
grantor within named, took at the valuation which the commissioners
duly appointed by the Court of Kent County had determined. |
BC:8:296 |
1815/02/14 |
| Kent
County: Benjamin Massey, of
Kent County and State of Maryland, buys for $1.00 the combined 64-5/8
acres of three tracts, i.e., one half of Burck, all of Peach's Addition
and all of French's
Lott, from James Connor and wife Elizabeth, also of Kent
County. Adjoining the tracts are a parcel called Purks and a
stream called the Black Pudding Branch. |
BC:8:298 |
1815/03/03 |
| Kent
County: Benjamin Massey, Esquire, of Kent County in
Maryland buys and holds in trust for Nathaniel Comegys, "true person of
color," of Kent County a five acre parcel, part of tract called
Partnership in Kent County that was sold by Philip Reed, Esquire,
acting as trustee for the estate of William Clark, to Cornelius
Comegys, and for which a deed of sale had been drawn up with Nathaniel
but for which Nathaniel had been unable to pay. Benjamin and
Nathaniel came to an understanding wherein Benjamin would enter into a
new indenture and purchase the parcel for $35.00, which Benjamin
completed on the same day. |
WS:1:213 |
1817/01/18 |
| Kent
County: Benjamin Massey and
wife Elizabeth of Kent County in the State of Maryland sell for $350.00
the 64-5/8 acre parcel called Pinacle to William Anderson, also of Kent
County. |
WS:2:352 |
1820/02/09 |
| Kent
County: Benjamin Massey of
Kent County in the State of Maryland, in order to secure a debt of
$430.41, sells for $5.00 two tracts of land totaling 262 acres to
Benjamin Masden and Nathan Bunker, trading as the firm of Masden &
Bunker of the City of Philadelphia, the sale to become null and void if
the debt is repaid according to the schedule in this deed The parcels
were conveyed in one deed, in which Benjamin Massey bought them from
Casparis Meginniss, recorded in Liber
TW No.3 Folio 299, 300, & 301, dated August 19, 1805. |
WS:3:227 |
1820/03/13 |
| Kent
County: Francis Massey
Seegar, wife of Arthur Seegar, (both of Queen Anne's County in the
State of Maryland) having reached the age of twenty one, completes the
sale of her
share of Angels Rest that had been willed to her and her sister Pamela
Lambden Massey by Elijah Massey when Francis was a minor, on April
16, 1811. Benjamin Massey of Kent County is the buyer, at
$3,000.00. According to the referenced
deed, Pamela Lambden Massey is the daughter of Benjamin Massey and
Francis Massey is the daughter of James Massey. |
WS:3:474 |
1821/12/29 |
| Kent
County: Benjamin Masden
and Nathan Bunker of the City of Philadelphia in the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania request that a commission review the deed
that they executed with Benjamin Massey of Kent County in the State of
Maryland in which he sold them for $5.00 the 262 acres in combined
tracts of Partnership to secure a debt that he owed the firm of Masden
& Bunker. Commissioners are to be chosen from: John Bartlett,
John White, and Henry White, merchants of the City of Philadelphia. |
WS:3:481 |
1822/01/18 |
| Kent
County: Joshua W. Massey of
Queen Anne's County in Maryland for $3,996.00 buys from Banjamin Massey
the combined 154 acres of portions of the parcels: Part of a tract of
land called Angels Rest, part of a tract of land called Angels Lot,
part of a tract of land called Partnership, and part of the tract of
land called Spring Garden. |
TW:4:177 |
1822/08/07 |
| Kent
County: Joshua W. Massey
and Pamela L. Massey of Queen Anne's County in the State of Maryland
sell for $1.00 to Benjamin H. Massy (Massey) for his natural life and
Caroline E. Massy (Massey) for ever a 139-1/2 acre portion of Angels
Lot that Pamela L[ambden] Massey was given by her grandfather Elijah
Massy (Massey). |
TW:4:188 |
1823/01/30 |
| Kent
County: 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
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]. |
TW:4:178 |
1823/08/09 |
| Kent
County: Benjamin Masden and
Nathaniel Bunker of the City of Philadelphia authorize the Clerk of
Kent County to set up a commission to authorize the execution of a deed
of transfer to Ebenezer T. Massey of Kent County in the State of
Maryland for land conveyed in a mortgage recorded by deed on January 7,
1820. Accordingly, Thomas Worrell, Esquire, Clerk of Kent County Court
is hereby authorized to direct the commissioners Samuel Spackman, John
White and John J. Caroling, Junior, merchants of the City of
Philadelphia to take, receive and certify [the] acknowledgement.
Witnesses: James L. Reinbold and Thomas A. Alexander; recorded by
Thomas Worrell, Kent County clerk. [Note: the previous commission was
set up to review a sale to Benjamin Massey; in the interim, Benjamin
sold the land, presumably the two portions of Partnership totaling 262
acres, to Ebenezer T. Massey - GL,III,ed.] |
TW:4:420 |
1824/05/30 |
| Kent
County: Benjamin Massy
(Massey) and wife Elizabeth of Kent County in the State of Maryland
sell for $94.00 to Solomon Simons, also of Kent County, a portion of
[The] Adventure which the said Benjamin Massey had purchased from David
Simans, Junior. |
TW:4:476 |
1824/09/20 |
| Kent
County: Benjamin Masden and
Nathan Bunker of the City of Philadelphia are issued the authorization
of a commission set up to review the transfer of land previously sold
by deed of mortgage to Benjamin Massey. Benjamin then
independently sold the land to Ebenezer T. Massey. The
commissioners are Samuel Spackman, John White, and John Harding,
Junior, Esquire of the City of Philadelphia. |
TW:4:580 |
1824/11/11 |
| Queen
Anne's County: Joshua I.
Massey of Queen Anne's County in Maryland for 200 dollars buys a 16
acre tract of land called Spry's
Chance and another tract of 33 acres called Friendship (purchased
from Robert Holliday or Holoday by Benjamin Massey, deceased) from
Ebenezer T. Massey and wife Emily. Adjoining lands include
parcels owned by Joseph Thompson, Benjamin Covington. |
TM:4:430 |
1827/10/23 |
|
|
Benjamin H.C. Massey
|
County
|
Lib.:No.:Fol.
|
Date
|
| Queen
Anne's County: John
Tilghman and Lloyd Tilghman of Queen Anne's County in the State of
Maryland, trustees appointed to sell the real estate of William Seward,
deceased, of Queen Anne's County, sell for $380.00 to Benjamin H.C.
Massey, who is now and has been for several months last part a bona
fide resident of Kent County, the slave Bill or William, whose term of
servitude will end on the twentieth day of December, eighteen hundred
and sixty four. Witnesses: Justice of the Peace Thomas Bunby and E.E.
Massey. |
JP:1:8 |
1852/01/14 |
| Queen
Anne's County: Benjamin H.C. Massey of Kent County and Daniel
C. Hopper of Queen Anne's County, both in the State of Maryland, buy
for $3,727.00 from Edwin E. Pratt and his wife Elizabeth E. Pratt, both
of Queen Anne's County, the several tracts called Relief,
Roe's
Chance and Baynard's
Pasture, lying in Queen Anne's County. |
JP:3:156
|
1856/09/22
|
| Queen
Anne's County: Benjamin H.C. Massey and his wife Bersheba
Massey, both of Kent County, and Daniel B. Hopper and wife Anna A.
Hopper, both of Queen Anne's County, all four in the State of Maryland,
sell for $1,800.00 to Hamilton J. Day of Caroline County in fee simple,
all those 200 acres (net) of parcels lying in Tulleys Neck in Queen
Anne's County, called Relief,
Roe's
Chance and Baynard's
Pasture, and contained (1) within the following metes and bounds:
Beginning at a stone at the end of the first line of said land
purchased by said Daniel C. Hopper and Benjamin H.C. Massey from Edwin
E. Pratt, and at the end of the first line of Theodore R. Straughan's
part of the same land ... |
JP:3:302 |
1857/05/14 |
| Queen
Anne's County: Theodore R.
Straughn, having signed the single bill from John J. Elliott in his
favor to Benjamin H.C. Massey and
Daniel C. Hopper, which single bill was intended to be secured by the
mortgage deed hereinafter recited, the said Theodore R. Straughn grants
to Benjamin H.C. Massey and to Daniel
C. Hopper all that property which is described in a deed of mortgage
from the said John J. Elliott to the said Theodore R. Straughn dated
December 16, 1856, and recorded in Liber
JP No.3, Folio 213, the quantity of interests hereby conveyed being
the interest of the said Theodore R. Straughn under the said mortgage. |
JP:3:371 |
1857/10/01 |
Queen
Anne's County: Benjamin H.C. Massey and his wife Bersheba
Massey of Kent County and Daniel C. Hopper & wife Anna A. Hopper of
Queen Anne's County, all four in the State of Maryland, sell for
$3,912.00 to Theodore R. Straughn in fee, all that tract lying in
Tullys Neck, Queen Anne's County, that is composed of parts of the
parcels called Relief,
Roe's
Chance and Baynard's
Pasture, that is contained within the following metes and bounds:
Beginning at a large oak tree, the beginning of Relief, and running
thence North sixty five degrees East one hundred and sixty six perches
to the beginning of that part of the same tracts sold by the said
Benjamin H.C. Massey and Daniel C. Hopper to the Reverend William Day
...
|
JP:3:439 |
1858/02/09 |
| Queen
Anne's County: Benjamin
H.C.Massey buys for $1,500.00 from Philemon B. Hopper, trustee
appointed to sell the lands involved in the case of Benjamin H.C.
Massey and Daniel C. Hopper vs. John J. Elliott and decreed to be sold
by the Circuit Court of Queen Anne's County, including 160 acres in the
the three tracts called New
Hope, Abbott (or Albert's
Delight) and McCoys Pleasure which were sold by Theodore R.
Straughn and his wife to the said John J. Elliott by deed dated
December 16, 1856, and recorded in Liber
JP No.3, Folio 235; New Hope (thirty eight and a half acres) was
sold by Joseph Sparks to John Dodd by deed dated September 7, 1844, and
recorded in Liber
JT No.4, Folio 364; Abbott (eighty two acres, a.k.a. Albert's
Delight) is described in a deed from Joseph M. Smith and his wife to
the said John Dodd recorded in Liber
JT No.4, Folio 167; and McCoy's
Pleasure (thirty nine and three quarter acres) is described in a
deed from John B. Carvill and his wife to the said Theodore R. Straughn
recorded in Liber
JP No.3, Folio 144. |
SED:1:66
|
1864/01/29 |
| Queen
Anne's County: Benjamin
H.C. Massey of Kent County in the State of Maryland buys for $1,625.72
from Thomas H. Carville and his wife Francis E. Carville, both of Queen
Anne's County, the combined tracts (netting
96- acres) Ashlon,
Southampton
and Barton [and Brotherhood ?], formerly belonging to the estate of
Jonathan Neville, deceased. |
SED:2:213 |
1866/02/10 |
| Kent
County: Emily Ann Massey of
the City of Philadelphia in the State of Pennsylvania and B.H.C. Massey
and his wife Bersheba Massey of Kent County in the State of Maryland
sell for $4,194.90 to Joseph A. Wickes, also of Kent County, by order
of Judge John M. Robinson of the Circuit Court for Kent County in the
case of Augusta Wickes vs. Augusta M. Wickes and others for the sale of
the real estate. ... it
being the tract which was devised by the late Ebenezer T. Massey to his
widow, the said Emily Ann Massey, for and during her natural life, and
after her death to the said B.H.C. Massey in fee. This conveyance is to
become void and of no effect if the said loan is repaid satisfactorily
under the terms stated within the mortgage. |
JKH:6:216 |
1867/03/28 |
|
Charles H.B.
Massey
|
County
|
Lib.:No.:Fol.:
|
Date
|
| Kent
County: Doctor Charles
H(enry) B(edford) Massey of Kent County in the State of Maryland buys
for $300.00 from John E. Cole, also of Kent County, the lot lying in
Masseys Cross Roads in Kent County which was devised to John E. Cole by
the Last Will and Testament of the late John Cole to Abraham Cole for
life and after his death to the said John E. Cole and his heirs,
bounded on two sides by the main or public roads and on the other two
sides by the lands of the late Ebenezer T. Massey and containing one
acre. |
JFG:2:219 |
1854/08/10 |
| Kent
County: Thomas G.H. Massey
and Charles H.B. Massey, both of Kent County in the State of Maryland,
buy for $10,000.00 as tenants in common from John L. Palmatory and his
wife Lydia N. Palmatory, also of Kent County, all that 301 acre
tract called Morther's
Gift in Kent County which was patented by Michael Miller in 1684
and recorded in Liber
LD No.A, Folio 477 ...
being the same lands which were conveyed by William Graves and wife to
William Thomas Trent, and which were conveyed to the said John L.
Palmatory by James B. Ricand, trustee, by deed dated April 12, 1853,
and recorded in Liber
JFG No.1, Folio 193. |
JFG:2:401 |
1854/12/13 |
| Kent
County: Thomas G.H. Massey
and Charles H.B. Massey, as tenants in common of Kent County in the
State of Maryland execute their mortgage for $7,355.29 to John L.
Palmatory and his wife Lydia N. Palmatory and give penalty ond for
$14,710.58 to secure payment of $7,355.29 to the Palmatorys for the
Michael Miller patent property called Morther's
Gift, lying in Kent County and containing three hundred and one
acres. The indebtedness is to be repaid in several installments
with legal interest on or before December 1, 1857. Once the
indebtedness is fully satisfied, this conveyance becomes null and void.
This is the same land that was conveyed to the said John L. Palmatory
by James B. Ricand, trustee, [recorded in Liber
JFG No.1, Folio 193] and by the said John L. Palmatory to the said
Thomas G.H. Massey and Charles H.B. Massey [recorded in Liber
JFG No.2, Folio 401] and now occupied by the said John L.
Palmatory. [Nevertheless, the language goes on to say that Thomas G.H.
Massey & Charles H.B. Massey are to have free access to the lands
without hindrance ... ? GL,III, ed.] |
JFG:2:485 |
1855/01/18 |
| Kent
County: John T. Palmatory
(Palmatary) of York Count in the State of Virginia releases Thomas G.H.
Massey and Charles H.B. Massey, both of Kent County in the State of
Maryland, from their mortgage deed for $7,355.29 recorded in Liber
JFG No.2, Folio 485 and dated December 1, 1854, and hereby complete
the transfer of title for the tract lying in Kent County and containing
three hundred and one acres, being the same lands [probably
Morthers Gift] that were conveyed by John T. Palmatory by James R.
Ricand, trustee, and by John T. Palmatory and wife to Thomas G.H.
Massey and Charles H.B. Massey and then occupied by John T. Palmatory. |
JKH:1:411 |
1859/03/07 |
| Kent
County: Thomas G.H. Massey
and his wife Mary G. Massey, both of Kent County in the State of
Maryland, sell for $9,000.00 to Doctor Charles H.B. Massey, also of
Kent County, all their undivided moiety or half part of the plantation
lying in the First Election District of Kent County, adjoining the
lands of William L. Spry, Henry B. Slaughter and others, usually called
the Palmatory Farm [a.k.a. Morthers
Gift], containing three hundred and one acres, being it the same
which was conveyed by John L. Palmatory and wife to the said Thomas
G.H. Massey and Charles H.B. Massey as tenants in common by deed dated
December 1, 1854, and recorded in Liber
JFG No.2, Folio 401. |
JKH:2:504 |
1861/04/15 |
| Kent
County: Charles H.B. Massey
of Kent County in the State of Maryland buys for $475.13 from Jervis
Spencer and his wife Catharine P. Spencer, also of Kent County, the
tract called Suttons
Forest, lying in Kent County ... The tract is woodland, lying upon the public
road leading from Chestertown to Millington and joining the lands of
Sarah Welch, Charles H.B. Massey and others, being a portion of those
tracts which were conveyed by William Knight and his wife Isabella A.
Knight to the said Jervis Spencer. |
JKH:3:429 |
1863/02/10 |
| Kent
County: Charles H.B. Massey
of Kent County in the State of Maryland buys for $1,000.00 from George
B. Money and his wife Mary W. Money, both of Delaware City in New
Castle County in the State of Delaware, all that messuage and parcel
located in Kent County ... it
being the same premises described as No.2 in a deed executed by Charles
E. Marchant and his wife Hannah Matilda Marchant dated March 9, 1864,
and also in a similar deed of conveyance executed by Patrick McConaughr
and his wife Marian A.E. McConaughr, David Robertson and his wife Emma
E. Robertson, and Joseph E. Money and his wife Susan Frances Money,
dated April 26, 1864. Dr. Massey paid with a note for $500.00, payable
in sixty days and another for $500.00, payable in ninety days. |
JKH:4:350 |
1864/07/21 |
| Queen
Anne's County: Thomas G.H. Massey of Kent County in the State
of Maryland sells for $5,000.00 to Charles H.B. Massey, also of Kent
County, the 362 acre tract called Tilghmans Friendship, lying in Queen
Anne's County between Sudlersville and Millington, it being the same
tract which was conveyed to the late Ebenezer T. Massey by Jesse Knock,
W.H. Foster, and Arthur E. Sudler, commissioners appointed to divide
and sell the real estate of Joshua W. Massey, by deed dated June 3,
1848, and recorded in Liber
JT No.5, Folio 493; another part
of Tilghmans Friendship lying in Queen Anne's County, containing twenty
acres, which was conveyed to Ebenezer T. Massey by Pamela L. Massey and
Joshua A. Massey and others by deed dated September 18, 1841, and
recorded in Liber
JT No.5, Folio 345; and also a portion of the tract called Woodbridge
Corrected (designated in the Last Will and Testament of Ebenezer T.
Massey as the Cacy Purchase) lying in Queen Anne's County, containing
fifty acres, which had been conveyed to Ebenezer T. Massey by Francis
C. Cacy by deed dated September 13, 1846, and recorded in Liber JP
No.5, Folio 200, all of which lands were devised by the late Ebenezer
T. Massey to his wife Emily Ann Massey for and during her natural life
and after her death to his son, the said Thomas G.H. Massey, in fee
simple. |
SED:1:404 |
1864/12/01 |
| Queen
Anne's County: Charles H.B. Massey and his wife Mary A.O.
Massey, both of Kent County in the State of Maryland, sell for
$5,000.00 to Thomas G.H. Massey of Westmoreland County in the State of
Virginia all that tract called Tilghmans Friendship, lying in Queen
Anne's County between Sudlersville and Millington, containing three
hundred and sixty two acres, it being the same tract which was conveyed
to the late Ebenezer T. Massey by Isaac Knock, W.H. Foster and Arthur
B. Sudler, commissioners appointed to divide or sell the real estate of
Joshua W. Massey by deed dated June 3, 1848, and recorded in Liber
JT No.5, Folio 493; also [another] part of Tilghmans Friendship
containing twenty acres which was conveyed to Ebenezer T. Massey by
Pamela L. Massey and Joshua A. Massey and others by deed dated
September 8, 1841, [probably what is recorded in Liber
JT
No.5, Folio 345 - GL,III, ed.] and also the tract, part
of Woodbridge
Corrected, designated in the Last Will and Testament of Ebenezer T.
Massey as the Cacy Purchase, containing fifty acres, it being the same
tract conveyed to Ebenezer T. Massey by Francis H. Cacy by deed dated
September 13, 1846, [and recorded in Liber
JT No.5, Folio 200] all of which tracts were devised by
the late Ebenezer T. Massey to his wife Emily Ann Massey for and during
her natural life, and after her death to his son, the said Thomas G.H.
Massey in fee simple by his Last Will and Testament, and which were
conveyed by the said Thomas G.H. Massey to the said Charles H.B. Massey
by deed dated December 19, 1864, recorded in Liber
SED No.1, Folio 404. |
SED:2:347 |
1866/06/14 |
|
Daniel Toas
Massey
|
County
|
Lib.:No.:Fol.
|
Date
|
| Kent
County: Mary Massey, et al,
widow of Daniel Massey, inherits the tract called Partnership, 110
acres of which are to be divided amongst the heirs: John Massey (100
acres) his four grandsons Daniel Toas Massey, Stephen Massey, Joseph
Massey, and John Massey, (two thirds of the unstated remainder) and his
10 granddaughters (one acre each), from Mary Massey to receive the last
one third of the remainder from among the four grandsons' lands.
Commissioners: Robert Maxwell, James Pearce, and Nathaniel Comegys
under a bond of 10,000 pounds of specie. Mary Massey is the widow of
Daniel Massey, decedent, whose Will is being settled. Guardians
for the underage heirs: Abraham Falconar, guardian to Joseph Massey,
son of Joseph; Josiah Massey, guardian to John Massey, son of said
Joseph. Note: the acreage of Partnership is nowhere mentioned,
and the survey of the entire tract is not included in this
document. Adjoining tracts include Henry Clark's land and Holdman
Johnston's heirs' land. |
EF:6:37 |
1781/03/19 |
Kent
County: Daniel Toas Massey
of Kent County in Maryland for 1,200 pounds in specie buys a
parcel, part of Partnership, from Stephen Massey, son of Joseph Massey,
heir to Daniel Massey, grandfather of Daniel Toas Massey.
|
EF:6:64 |
1781/10/04 |
| Kent
County: Charles Wiggon
(Wiggins) of New Castle County leases a 500 acre portion of
Partnership from Daniel Toas Massey of Kent County in Maryland; Daniel
to provide two good horses, plow and gear; and Charles to pay in wheat
and cornhills planted. |
EF:6:414 |
1784/03/18 |
Kent
County: John Field,
merchant, of the City of Philadelphia for 678 pounds, 9 shillings, and
4 pence buys a parcel in Kent County, a part of Partnership that Daniel
Toas Massey bought from his brother Stephen Massey in a deed of April
24, 1781.
|
EF:7:297 |
1788/05/03 |
| Kent
County: Joseph Massey
(farmer and brother of Daniel Toas Massey) of Queen Anne's County in
Maryland for 635 pounds buys a 375 acre portion of Partnership in Kent
County from Daniel Toas Massey, farmer, and wife Sarah, who thereby
relinquishes her right of dower. |
EF:7:482 |
1789/09/04 |
| Kent
County: Joseph Massey (as
partner and together with the late Abraham [?] Massey), merchant of
Kent County in the State of Maryland, sells, for (shortening a long
story involving a debt and Susannah Warder Parkes Humpany, merchant of
the City of Philadelphia and Jeremiah Warder) £348 5/- 5-1/2p, a 200
acre part of the tract called Partnership which Joseph inherited from
Daniel Massey, deceased, unto John Warder of the City of
Philadelphia. Courses: ... running West two and a half degrees
North three hundred and eighty perches with the division line of the
said Joseph Massey and a certain John Massey's lands, then South eleven
degrees and one quarter degree West seventy eight perches to the
division line of Daniel Toas Massey and said Joseph Massey's lands |
EF:7:532 |
1790/02/23 |
Kent
County: Daniel Toas Massey,
farmer of Kent County in the State of Maryland sells for £3,018 15/- a
431-1/4 acre portion of Partnership to Abraham Woodland. ... then on the division line between the said
Daniel Toas Massey and a certain Joseph Massey, the following three
courses, to wit: East two hundred and forty perches to a stone standing
at the end of the third line of a parcel of land which was conveyed by
the said Daniel Toas Massey to the above named Joseph Massey ... stone standing in the South line of the
original tract of Partnership, which said stone was established and
agreed by the said Daniel Toas Massey and a certain Joseph Newman &
William Little, deceased, in his life time, and a certain James
Blackiston as a boundary between them ...
|
BC:4:36 |
1794/03/17 |
| Kent
County: Daniel Toas Massey,
farmer, of Kent County in Maryland for 5 shillings and settlement of
various debts buys [back] a part of the tract called Partnership from
AbrahamWoodland; i.e., Abraham can keep the land that he previously
bought from Daniel if he pays the debts in the stated periodic
installments. |
BC:4:64 |
1794/07/05 |
| Queen
Anne's County: Daniel Toas
Massey, farmer of Kent County, buys for $1,500 a 300 acre tract of land
called Collins
His Range or Collins' Range from Oliver Smith, also farmer of Kent
County. |
STW:3:307 |
1795/04/22 |
| Queen
Anne's County: Oliver Smith
of Kent County in the State of Maryland binds himself in the amount of
£400 to Daniel Toas Massey of Queen Anne's County in Maryland, lest
Oliver's wife not relinquish her dower right in the tract [the 300
acres of Collins
His Range or Collins Range] heretofore sold by Oliver Smith to
Daniel Toas Massey, said obligation to be null and void if said wife
formally gives up her dower right. |
STW:3:308 |
1795/05/21 |
| Queen
Anne's County: Hemsley
Massey of Queen Anne's County in Maryland for 280 pounds, 10 shillings
buys a 46.75 acre tract of land called Collins
Range in Queen Anne's County from Daniel Toas Massey, farmer, and
unnamed wife. |
STW:5:527 |
1801/09/21 |
| Kent
County: Daniel Toas Masseys conveys ??? to Mary P. Woodland, Hannah W.
Woodland, Samuel W. Woodland, & Margaret B. Woodland. |
TW:2:531
XXXX
|
1803/01/01 |
Queen
Anne's County: Hemsley
Massey of Queen Anne's County in Maryland for 1,500 pounds buys a 399.5
acre tract of land (including the 46.75 acres bought in 1801) called Collins
Range or Collins His Range in Queen Anne's Countyn from Daniel Toas
Massey, farmer. ... which
said lines also include the quantity of forty six acres and three
eights of an acre of land heretofore sold and conveyed by the said
Daniel Toas Massey to the said Hemsley Massey and for which no
consideration money is now paid by the said Hemsley Massey to the said
Daniel Toas Massey. Witnesses: William Lindsay, William B.
Hackett, William & Joshua Massey, and Hemsley Massey.
|
STW:6:493 |
1804/10/04 |
| Queen
Anne's County: Joshua
Massey of Queen Anne's County in the State of Maryland sells for 5/- to
Ann Massey Elliott, wife of Samuel Elliott, all of the lands which his
father, Hemsley Massey, deceased, left to Joshua's sister Ann Massey,
now Ann Elliott, also of Queen Anne's County. Hemsley Massey left to
Joshua Massey and to his legitimate children all the lands on which he
resided as well as half of the land which he purchased from Philip Reed
and from Daniel T. Massey, that being the half next to the land of
George Palmer. Joshua now wishes to comply with the Will of his
father, Hemsley Massey, by conveying to Ann Massey Elliott her share of
the aforesaid lands, being all that part of Friendship, all of Masseys
Part of Friendship Corrected, two parts of a tract called Bridgewater,
and all of the tract called Nasby's
Addition. |
STW:10:267 |
1809/03/02 |
Kent
County: Ann Sturgis and
Rachel Sturgis of Kent County in the State of Maryland sell for $300.00
to William S. Cooper, also of Kent County, all the 12 acre tract called
Partnership, lying in Kent County, which was sold under the direction
of the High Court of Chancery of Maryland by John Davidson, trustee,
for the sale of lands in Kent County which were given to Ann Sturgis
and Rachel Sturgis and which are contained within the following metes
and bounds: Beginning at a stone fixed at the West end of a division
line between Daniel Toas Massey and Joseph Massey ...
|
BC:8:540 |
1816/04/08 |
| Queen
Anne's County: Ebenezer T.
Massey and wife Emily Ann Massey of Kent County in the State of
Maryland sell for $3,000.00 to Samuel O. Meginniss of Queen Anne's
County all that tract called Collins
Range, containing 400 acres, excepting 24 acres willed by Hemsley
Massey, late of Queen Anne's County to Joshua Massey, also deceased and
late of Queen Anne's County, and a few acres sold by Ebenezer T. Massey
and wife to Winbert [illegible surname], which land descended to
Ebenezer T. Masseyand wife Emily Ann Massey by the death of her father
Hemsley Massey, late of Queen Anne's County, all lands lying in the
upper part of Queen Anne's County whereon John Jones now lives, which
was purchased by Hemsley Massey from Daniel T. Massey, late of Queen
Anne's County,and is bounded on the North by the lands of John
Rochester's heirs, on the East by the lands of Samuel Cacy, on the
South by the lands of Joshua W. Massey's heirs, and on the West by the
[two letters] Lyon Branch, containing about three hundred and seventy
acres. |
JT:1:139 |
1834/07/15 |
|
Thomas G.H.
Massey
|
County
|
Lib.:No.:Fol.
|
Date
|
| Kent
County: Thomas G.H. Massey
and Charles H.B. Massey, both of Kent County in the State of Maryland,
buy for $10,000.00 as tenants in common from John L. Palmatory and his
wife Lydia N. Palmatory, also of Kent County, all that 301 acre
tract called Morther's
Gift in Kent County which was patented by Michael Miller in 1684
and recorded in Liber
LD No.A, Folio 477, situate on Chester River and adjoining the
lands lately [owned by] Isaac Spencer's heirs and others ... being the same lands which were conveyed by
William Graves and wife to William Thomas Trent, and which were
conveyed to the said John L. Palmatory by James B. Ricand, trustee, by
deed dated April 12, 1853, and recorded in Liber
JFG No.1, Folio 193. |
JFG:2:401 |
1854/12/13 |
| Kent
County: Thomas G.H. Massey
and Charles H.B. Massey, as tenants in common of Kent County in the
State of Maryland execute their mortgage for $7,355.29 to John L.
Palmatory and his wife Lydia N. Palmatory and give penalty bond for
$14,710.58 to secure payment of $7,355.29 to the Palmatorys for the
Michael Miller patent property called Morther's
Gift, lying in Kent County and containing three hundred and one
acres. The indebtedness is to be repaid in several installments
with legal interest on or before December 1, 1857. Once the
indebtedness is fully satisfied, this conveyance becomes null and void.
This is the same land that was conveyed to the said John L. Palmatory
by James B. Ricand, trustee, [recorded in Liber
JFG No.1, Folio 193] and by the said John L. Palmatory to the said
Thomas G.H. Massey and Charles H.B. Massey [recorded in Liber
JFG No.2, Folio 401] and now occupied by the said John L.
Palmatory. [Nevertheless, the language goes on to say that Thomas G.H.
Massey & Charles H.B. Massey are to have free access to the lands
without hindrance ... ? GL,III, ed.] |
JFG:2:485 |
1855/01/18 |
| Kent
County: John T. Palmatory
(Palmatary) of York Count in the State of Virginia releases Thomas G.H.
Massey and Charles H.B. Massey, both of Kent County in the State of
Maryland, from their mortgage deed for $7,355.29 recorded in Liber
JFG No.2, Folio 485 and dated December 1, 1854, and hereby complete
the transfer of title for the tract lying in Kent County and containing
three hundred and one acres, being the same lands [probably
Morthers Gift] that were conveyed by John T. Palmatory by James R.
Ricand, trustee, and by John T. Palmatory and wife to Thomas G.H.
Massey and Charles H.B. Massey and then occupied by John T. Palmatory. |
JKH:1:411 |
1859/03/07 |
| Kent
County: Thomas G.H. Massey
and his wife Mary G. Massey, both of Kent County in the State of
Maryland, sell for $9,000.00 to Doctor Charles H.B. Massey, also of
Kent County, all their undivided moiety or half part of the plantation
lying in the First Election District of Kent County, adjoining the
lands of William L. Spry, Henry B. Slaughter and others, usually called
the Palmatory Farm [a.k.a. Morthers
Gift], containing three hundred and one acres, being it the same
which was conveyed by John L. Palmatory and wife to the said Thomas
G.H. Massey and Charles H.B. Massey as tenants in common by deed dated
December 1, 1854, and recorded in Liber
JFG No.2, Folio 401. |
JKH:2:504 |
1861/04/15 |
| Queen
Anne's County: Thomas G.H.
Massey of Kent County in the State of Maryland sells for $5,000.00 to
Charles H.B. Massey, also of Kent County, the 362 acre tract called
Tilghmans Friendship, lying in Queen Anne's County between Sudlersville
and Millington, it being the same tract which was conveyed to the late
Ebenezer T. Massey by Jesse Knock, W.H. Foster, and Arthur E. Sudler,
commissioners appointed to divide and sell the real estate of Joshua W.
Massey, by deed dated June 3, 1848, and recorded in Liber
JT No.5, Folio 493; another part
of Tilghmans Friendship lying in Queen Anne's County, containing twenty
acres, which was conveyed to Ebenezer T. Massey by Pamela L. Massey and
Joshua A. Massey and others by deed dated September 18, 1841, and
recorded in Liber
JT No.5, Folio 345; and also a portion of the tract called Woodbridge
Corrected (designated in the Last Will and Testament of Ebenezer T.
Massey as the Cacy Purchase) lying in Queen Anne's County, containing
fifty acres, which had been conveyed to Ebenezer T. Massey by Francis
C. Cacy by deed dated September 13, 1846, and recorded in Liber JP
No.5, Folio 200, all of which lands were devised by the late Ebenezer
T. Massey to his wife Emily Ann Massey for and during her natural life
and after her death to his son, the said Thomas G.H. Massey, in fee
simple. |
SED:1:404 |
1864/12/01 |
| Queen
Anne's County: Charles H.B. Massey and his wife Mary A.O.
Massey, both of Kent County in the State of Maryland, sell for
$5,000.00 to Thomas G.H. Massey of Westmoreland County in the State of
Virginia all that tract called Tilghmans Friendship, lying in Queen
Anne's County between Sudlersville and Millington, containing three
hundred and sixty two acres, it being the same tract which was conveyed
to the late Ebenezer T. Massey by Isaac Knock, W.H. Foster and Arthur
B. Sudler, commissioners appointed to divide or sell the real estate of
Joshua W. Massey by deed dated June 3, 1848, and recorded in Liber
JT No.5, Folio 493; also [another] part of Tilghmans Friendship
containing twenty acres which was conveyed to Ebenezer T. Massey by
Pamela L. Massey and Joshua A. Massey and others by deed dated
September 8, 1841, [probably what is recorded in Liber
JT
No.5, Folio 345 - GL,III, ed.] and also the tract, part
of Woodbridge
Corrected, designated in the Last Will and Testament of Ebenezer T.
Massey as the Cacy Purchase, containing fifty acres, it being the same
tract conveyed to Ebenezer T. Massey by Francis H. Cacy by deed dated
September 13, 1846, [and recorded in Liber
JT No.5, Folio 200] all of which tracts were devised by
the late Ebenezer T. Massey to his wife Emily Ann Massey for and during
her natural life, and after her death to his son, the said Thomas G.H.
Massey in fee simple by his Last Will and Testament, and which were
conveyed by the said Thomas G.H. Massey to the said Charles H.B. Massey
by deed dated December 19, 1864, recorded in Liber
SED No.1, Folio 404. |
SED:2:347 |
1866/06/14 |
|
Eleazer Massey
|
County
|
Lib.:No.:Fol.
|
Date
|
| Queen
Anne's County: Eleazer
Massey, planter of Queen Anne's County in Maryland, mortgages for a
loan of £50 and then one peppercorn on July 1 of each succeeding year
for seven years paid by Richard Jeffreys, free black, also of Queen
Anne's County, and formerly a tenant of John Wilmon (Wilnon ?) of Kent
County, a 73 acre portion of the tract called Hillmanors [maybe Killemanam
?] Plains, which mortgage shall become null and void if Richard
Jeffreys returns the £50 with legal interest to Eleazer Massey by July
1, 1778. |
RT:K:356 |
1774/06/27 |
| Queen
Anne's County: Eleazer
Massey of Queen Anne's County in Maryland buys for 370 pounds from
Samuel Ridgeway and wife Littilia a tract of land called Reviving
Springs (formerly owned by William Lambden). |
RT:K:355 |
1774/07/13 |
| Queen
Anne's County: Samuel
Ridgeway and wife Littilia execute a bond for £370 to warrant that Reviving
Springs, formerly owned by William Lounden, and now in the
possession of Eleazer Massey, was free of all encumbrances and well and
truly theirs to convey to Eleazer Massey; should that be the case, then
the bond shall be of no effect. For his part, Eleazer Massey
subsequently paid Samuel Ridgeway £180 for all his part of the within
mentioned land. |
RT:K:355 |
1774/07/13 |
| Queen
Anne's County: Absalom
Gibbs, free black, formerly the slave of John Gibbs and manumitted by
his Last Will and Testament in Queen Anne's County, Maryland, mortgages
the 58-1/2 acre tract called Hillmanning [maybe Killemanam
?] Plains to Eleazer Massey for the loan of £28
16/- 7p, said sum to be paid back with legal interest to Eleazer at the
end of three and a half years (by October 1, 1777) from the date of the
deed, in which case Absalom can remain owner of the land and the deed
becomes null and void. Yearly "rent" is one peppercorn. |
RT:K:477 |
1775/04/25 |
| Queen
Anne's County: Eleazer
Massey, planter of Queen Anne's County in Maryland, buys for £180 from
Samuel Ridgeway, planter, and wife Littilia, also of Queen Anne's
County, a 93 acre portion of the tract called Reviving
Springs, once owned by William Lambden, father of Littilia, with
the condition that if a part or moiety of the tract be taken out of his
possession, that he be reimbursed by the Ridgeways at the rate of £1
18/- 8p per acre so taken. |
RT:L:221 |
1779/05/25 |
| Queen
Anne's County: Eleazer Massey of Queen Anne's County in
the State of Maryland buys for £1,500 in Spanish milled dollars at
seven shillings and six pence each from William Charles Neill of Queen
Anne's County, a portion of the tract called Bridgewater
(excepting a small part already deeded unto James Massey, Senior) in
Queen Anne's County, which was allotted to William Charles Neill,
eldest son of the late Henrietta Neill, by the Sheriff of Queen Anne's
County in 1773 by virtue of a writ of partition obtained from the
Provincial Court between William Charles Neill, Joseph Nicholson and
his wife Mary, Joseph Nicholson, Junior and his wife Elizabeth of the
aforesaid tract called Bridgewater, another tract called Stepney,
and a third tract called Land (Sand ?) Camberwell, which said partition
and the inquisition thereon records the metes and bounds thereof. |
CD:1:53 |
1784/06/24 |
| Queen
Anne's County: Eleazer
Massey, planter of Queen Anne;'s County in the State of Maryland buys
for £10 from William Trusty, Senior, of Kent County in the State of
Delaware, his undivided moeity or half share of a 16 acre portion of
the tract called Hillmanning's [maybe Killemanam
?] Plains in Queen Anne's County. |
CD:1:307 |
1785/07/26 |
| Queen
Anne's County: Absalom
Gibbs, free black and planter of Queen Anne's County in Maryland, for
28 pounds, 16 shillings and 7 pence buys a 58.5 acre tract of land
called Hillmanning [maybe Killemanam
?] Plains from Eleazer Massey, gentleman. |
CD:1:439 |
1786/03/18 |
| Queen
Anne's County: Sarah Massey
and Elizabeth Massey (daughters of Eleazer Massey) of Queen Anne's
County in Maryland for 5 shillings buy a tract of land called Reviving
Springs, purchased by Eleazer Massey from Samuel Ridgeway and wife
Littilia. |
CD:2:334 |
1787/09/08 |
| Queen
Anne's County: Benjamin
Massey and his wife Elizabeth of Kent County in the State of Maryland
sell for £583 6/- 8p (and for
6,200 pounds of tobacco ?) to
Benoni Harris, also of Kent County, the tract called Reviving
Springs which Eleazer Massey, father of the aforesaid Benjamin
Massey, purchased from Samuel Ridgeway, Esquire, deceased, and his wife
Littilia on September 8, 1787, then granted by deed to his two
daughters Sarah Massey and Elizabeth Massey, being the undivided estate
of said Sarah Massey (now Sarah Harris, the wife of Benoni Harris) and
the aforesaid Elizabeth Massey. |
STW:3:491 |
1796/02/14 |
| Queen
Anne's County: Benoni
Harris and his wife Sarah Massey Harris of Kent County in the State of
Maryland sell for £1,125 to Samuel Cacy of Queen Anne's County, Sarah
Harris's undivided moiety in 179-1/4 acres of the land which Sarah
Massey Harris with her sister Elizabeth Massey, wife of Benjamin Massey
of Kent County, inherited from their father, Eleazer Massey, deceased,
called Reviving
Springs, lying in Queen Anne's County. |
STW:7:373 |
1805/10/28 |
| Queen
Anne's County: John Massey
for the sum of $1.00 sells the 200 acre tract called Bridgewater
(inherited from his late father Eleazer Massey) and sundry slave boys
James, Emmanuel, Barry and John, and a slave girl named Esther, to be
placed in trust with James Duhanel for his daughters Rachel, Sarah Ann,
and unnamed children. |
JB:1:283 |
1812/04/28 |
|
Moses Massey
|
County
|
Lib.:No.:Fol.
|
Data
|
| Queen
Anne's County: Moses
Massey, planter of Queen Anne's County in Maryland, buys for £17 from
John Spry, planter of the same place, 21 acres of the tract called
Friendship in Queen Anne's County, located on the Unicorn Branch. |
RT:F:82 |
1760/06/24 |
| Queen
Anne's County: Moses
Massey, planter of Queen Anne's County in Maryland buys for £60 from
John Spry, planter of the same place, the unsold residual part of the
tract called Friendship which John Spry inherited from his late father. |
RT:F:314 |
1763/03/23 |
| Queen
Anne's County: Moses Massey
of Queen Anne's County in Maryland buys for £6 from Francis Spry, son
and heir of John Spry, deceased,one part of the tract called Friendship
that John Spry had conveyed to Moses Massey by deed dated June 20,
1760, and containing
21 acres; and a
second part of Friendship that John Spry had also granted to Moses
Massey by deed dated January 15, 1763, containing 70 acres. |
RT:H:355 |
1769/06/27 |
Queen
Anne's County: James
Massey, planter of Queen Anne's County in Maryland, buys for £85 1/-
from Moses Massey, also a planter of the same place, a 40-1/2 acre
portion of the tract called Friendship in Queen Anne's County. ... the beginning boundary of that part of
Friendship which was sold by John Hadley to James Massey ...
|
RT:I:371 |
1772/06/23 |
| Queen
Anne's County: Moses
Massey, farmer of Queen Anne's County in Maryland, sells for £30 5/- to
Isaac Spencer, merchant of Kent County, a 22 acre portion of the tract
called Friendship that is now inundated as the result of the
construction of a dam for the use of, at first a forging mill, now
converted to a grist mill. |
RT:K:341 |
1774/06/22 |
Queen
Anne's County: Moses
Massey of Queen Anne's County in the State of Maryland gives out
of good will and affection a number of items and real estate to his
children: daughter Permela, son Samuel, son Hemsley, daughter
Elizabeth, son Levi, his friend Rachel Lacharse and his daughter
Permela, the wife of John Peters. To Parmela Massey Peters: a horse
called Ball; To Samuel Massey: a horse called Liberty, one bed &
furniture, one brindle cow, one sow & six pigs, one iron pot, one
pewter dish & two ewes; to Hemsley Massey: one horse called Triall,
one bed & furniture, one cow called Star, one sow and five pigs,
one iron pot, one pewter dish, two ewes, one desk, one case of bottles,
one slave woman named Silve; to Elizabeth Massey: one slave girl named
Tempe, one horse called Sorrel, one (new) side saddle, one red &
white cow, one brown heifer, one iron pot, one pewter dish, one red
chest, one bed & furniture, two ewes, one sow, one white table; to
Levi Massey: one colt called Kistor, one bed & furniture, one iron
pot, one pewter dish, two ewes, one sow & five pigs, six pewter
plates, one cow called Lill, one brown chest; to Rachel Lacharse: one
cow called Blacko, one horse called Pall, the colt the mare is big with
excepted, one small pewter dish, one ewe, one hog, one linen wheel and
groat to the aforesaid names above mentioned. Household stuff,
implements, chattels to me belonging & which I may justly claim as
in right, my own whether alive or dead as well moveables or things
immoveable, both real & personal in whose hands custody or
possession so ever they be or whosoever the same or any of them or any
part of them can or may now hereafter be found remaining or being, as
well in the messuage or tenement with the appurtenances wherein I now
dwell as in any place or messuage whatsoever ... Witnesses: James
Massey, William Massey, and Charles Simmond.
|
RT:L:445 |
1781/10/26 |
| Queen
Anne's County: Samuel
Massey, planter of Queen Anne's County in Maryland sells for £240 to
Hemsley Massey, planter, also of Queen Anne's County, a 60 acre portion
of the tract called Friendship which Samuel Massey inherited from his
father Moses Massey. |
STW:1:27 |
1788/03/25 |
|
Stephen Massey
|
County
|
Lib.:No.:Fol.
|
Date
|
| Kent
County: Mary Massey, et al,
widow of Daniel Massey, inherits the tract called Partnership, 110
acres of which are to be divided amongst the heirs: John Massey (100
acres) his four grandsons Daniel Toas Massey, Stephen Massey, Joseph
Massey, and John Massey, (two thirds of the unstated remainder) and his
10 granddaughters (one acre each), from Mary Massey to receive the last
one third of the remainder from among the four grandsons' lands.
Commissioners: Robert Maxwell, James Pearce, and Nathaniel Comegys
under a bond of 10,000 pounds of specie. Mary Massey is the widow of
Daniel Massey, decedent, whose Will is being settled. Guardians
for the underage heirs: Abraham Falconar, guardian to Joseph Massey,
son of Joseph; Josiah Massey, guardian to John Massey, son of said
Joseph. Note: the acreage of Partnership is nowhere mentioned,
and the survey of the entire tract is not included in this
document. Adjoining tracts include Henry Clark's land and Holdman
Johnston's heirs' land. |
EF:6:37 |
1781/03/19 |
| Kent
County: Daniel Toas Massey
of Kent County in Maryland for 1,200 pounds in specie buys a
parcel, part of Partnership, from Stephen Massey, son of Joseph Massey,
heir to Daniel Massey, grandfather of Daniel Toas Massey. |
EF:6:64 |
1781/10/04 |
| Kent
County: Abraham Falconar of
Queen Anne's County in the State of Maryland sells for £600 a 3-1/2
acre portion of London
Bridge Renewed, lying in Bridgetown, Kent County, to Stephen Massey
of Kent County. |
EF:7:173 |
1787/06/21 |
Kent
County: John Field,
merchant, of the City of Philadelphia for 678 pounds, 9 shillings, and
4 pence buys a parcel in Kent County, a part of Partnership that Daniel
Toas Massey bought from his brother Stephen Massey in a deed of April
24, 1781.
|
EF:7:297 |
1788/05/03 |
|
William R. Massey
|
County
|
Lib.:No.:Fol.
|
Date
|
Queen
ANne's County: William
R.Massey of Baltimore County in the State of Maryland agrees to
relinquish his one sixth moiety in all the lands in Queen Anne's and
Kent counties that he inherited from Joshua W. Massey in exchange for
$1,000.00 in cash (less any money owed by William R. Massey to Pamela
L. Massey at the time of settlement on the first of January next) and
the transfer of slaves Robert and Shadrach paid to him by Pamela L.
Massey of the City of Baltimore. The lands are: Bath,
Friendship Manors, Chance, White Oak, Adventure, and Browne's Purchase,
which Joshua W. Massey purchased from James Barr of Kent County.
Witnesses: Ebenezer T. Massey and Thomas Sappington.
|
JT:1:143 |
1834/07/21 |
| Queen
Anne's County: William R.
Massey of the City and County of Baltimore, indebted to Henry Bruce to
the extent of $678.06, mortgages as security all the lands inherited
from Joshua W. Massey lying on the Eastern Shore of Maryland to Henry
Bruce, said conveyance to be null and void if Mr. Massey satisfies the
debt within one month from the present date. |
JT:1:127 |
1835/06/09 |
| Queen
Anne's County: William R.
Massey of the City of Baltimore in the State of Maryland sells for
$50.00 to John Palmer the slave named Robert, who is now in the
possession of Col. John Tilghman, together with all the wages due for
the said Robert and not paid at the time of the execution of this deed. |
JT:2:101 |
1836/07/01 |
| Queen
Anne's County: William R.
Massey and wife Emily Ann of the Town of Alexandria, District of
Columbia, being indebted to [difficult reading ahead !] A.C. Lazonas,
John H. Jannoy, Grupper & Dean - Merchants [illegible] George L.
Bumford of George Town, Crawford of McKim, George & Mayes, Mason
& Hanlen, George C. Rollins, merchants of Baltimore and Bank of
Potomac Alexandria [illegible words] amounting to about $2,800.00 which
William R. Massey desires to pay to his creditors, through a deed of
trust to Christopher Neale, one sixth of his equity in the following
lands: Friendship, Bath,
Manor's Chance, White Oak, Spry's
Adventure, [illegible name] Purchase, containing in all about 2,600
acres in Queen Anne's and Kent counties, all of which belonged to his
father, the late Joshua W. Massey of Queen Anne's County, subject first
to the dower right of Pamela L. Massey, widow of Joshua W. Massey, and
also to a previous mortgage made and executed by William R. Massey to
Joseph [illegible surname] of Baltimore for $1,000 or
thereabouts. Should William R. Massey [somehow] repay the stated
debt, then this indenture becomes null and void. If he defaults,
then Christopher Neale is entitled to sell the aforesaid listed tracts
piecemeal for cash until the debt is satisfied. |
JT:2:623 |
1839/03/01 |
Queen
Anne's County: Ebenezer T.
Massey of Kent County in the State of Maryland buys for $703.37 from
Israel Griffith of the City of Baltimore the mortgage deed of William
R. Massey of Spring Hill in the State of Mississippi recorded in Liber
JT No.2 Folio 235, 236 & 237 and dated September 4, 1837. By
this deed Ebenezer T. Massey becomes the owner of any and all payments
made by William R. Massey to satisfy the referenced deed of mortgage.
|
JT:3:198 |
1841/01/13 |
Queen
Anne's County: A commission
is set up to divide the lands of the late Joshua W. Massey of Queen
Anne's County in the State of Maryland and is made up of the following
men: Jesse Knock, William H. Foster, Arthur E. Sudler, James Giant
[maybe Skint], and Edward Coppage, all of Queen Anne's County.
The lands at issue are: Friendship, Maynors Chance, Irish Farm etc. The
heirs of Joshua W. Massey are: William R. Massey, James H. Massey,
Marietta I. Dobbs (wife of Alexander Dobbs, formerly Marietta Massey)
Joseph A. Massey, Thomas C. Massey, Benjamin A. Massey and Pamela L.
Massey, his widow. Thomas C. Massey, who was a minor, initiated
the formation of this commission in order properly to divide the lands
of Joshua W. Massey.
|
JT:4:498 |
1845/08/19 |
| Queen
Anne's County: A commission
described in Liber
JT No.4 Folio 498 evaluated and then sold at public auction the
lands of the late Joshua W. Massey of Queen Anne's County in the State
of Maryland. The present deed describes the sale and lands conveyed to
James Merrick, also of Queen Anne's County. However, William R.
Massey has by now alienated all his individual interest in his father's
estate to Mssrs. [Perma] and Fisher of the City of Baltimore; James H.
Massey has alienated all his interest to Ebenezer T. Massey of Kent
County; and Thomas E. Massey is still a minor. The present
commission is composed of the same men as the above-referenced previous
commission and evaluated the lands at issue the same as before, except
for the lands sold as part of Seegar's
Purchase in the above referenced deed. |
JT:5:186 |
1847/02/09 |
| Queen
Anne's County: Ebenezer T.
Massey of Kent County in the State of Maryland buys for $400.00 from
John McCormick and wife Jane Ann McCormick of Alexandria in the State
of Virginia,a portion of the lands devised to William R. Massey which
he subsequently sold to Henry Bruce, and thence from Bruce to John
McCormick, which lands are Maynor's Chance, Tilghman's Friendship, Collins
Range and Harriss's
Rambles. |
JT:5:449 |
1848/05/09 |
|
Ebenezer Massey
|
County
|
Lib.:No.:Fol.
|
Date
|
| Kent County: Joseph Massey and Ebenezer Massey patent of
The Slippe, a 6.5 acre parcel (formerly owned by Joshua Vansant,
deceased) lying adjacent to Massey's Venture and Addition to Fair
Dealing, and The Exchange, all in Kent County, Maryland. |
BC&GS:20:367 |
1764/08/28 |
| Kent
County: Masseys Venture
Resurveyed, Joseph Massey and Ebenezer Massey, 254 1/2 Acres. |
BC&GS:33:41 |
1765/06/11 |
| Kent
County: Ebenezer Massey,
farmer of Kent County, buys for £100 the tracts called The Exchange,
The Slip Alongside Massey's Venture, and Massey's Venture from Joseph
Massey, also a farmer of Kent county. |
DD:2:337 |
1766/08/19 |
| Kent
County: Ebenezer Massey,
farmer of Kent County in Maryland, sells for £5 5/- a 1.5 acre portion
of Masseys
Venture Resurveyed to Thomas Gilpin, merchant of Kent County. |
DD:3:499 |
1771/10/08 |
| Kent
County: Ebenezer Massey
petitions the Kent County, Maryland Court to re-establish the
boundaries of Massey's
Venture Resurveyed lest they be lost and forgotten.
Commissioners: Isaac Spencer, Samuel Davis, William Blackiston and
William Woodall. Meeting held November 24, 1774; depositions were taken
by William Woodall and Isaac Spencer from (1) Daniel Massey, about 60
years old, who remembered the location of a cypress post and that the
land was laid out by Gilbert Falconar for the late Nicholas Massey; and
(2) Gilbert Falconar, age 33, who confirmed the location of the
aforesaid cypress post as of 1766. |
DD:5:54 |
1772/04/04 |
| Kent
County: Ebenezer Massey of
Kent County in the State of Maryland buys for 5/- from Gilbert
Falconar, also of Kent County, all of the tract called Partnership
which lies within the lines of two tracts of land, the property of
Ebenezer Massey, called Masseys
Venture Resurveyed and [The] Exchange, also all that tract of land
called Partnership which lies to the Eastward of James Hynson's
lines, the whole breadth of the two tracts of land called Masseys
Venture resurveyed and [The] Exchange, and also all that part of the
aforesaid tract called Partnership, and that part of four other tracts
of land called London
Bridge Renewed which lie to the eastward of the road leading from
the Head of Chester to the Head of Sassafras iver, and to the Northward
of the Long Meadow Branch as far up as Luke Miers line. |
EF:7:212 |
1787/10/03 |
| Kent
County: William Massy
(Massey) of Baltimore County in Maryland sells for £300 one-sixth
portions of Massey's
Venture Resurveyed, The Exchange, and Partnership in Kent County to
Lewis Blackiston of Kent County. William was bequeathed Masseys
Venture Resurveyed, The Exchange, and Partnership by his father,
Ebenezer Massey. |
BC:4:269 |
1795/10/07 |
| Kent
County: Proceedings of the
Second Judicial District of the State of Maryland before Chief Justice
James Tilghman, Esquire, and Samuel Chew & Philip Reed, Esquire,
Associate Justices. William Massey, Ebenezer Palmer & his wife
Sarah, Lewis Blackiston & Milcah Massey Blackiston, by her guardian
Lewis Blackiston, petition the court that they, together with Daniel
Massey, Mary Massey, and Araminta Massey are entitled as heirs to
Ebenezer Massey, who died intestate, to the following tracts of land in
Kent County: Massey's
Venture Resurveyed, Exchange and part of Partnership. Daniel
Massey, Mary Massey, and Araminta Massey are infants, under the age of
twenty one years, so the petitioners request that a commission be
formed to decide whether to partition or sell off the referenced lands.
James Scott is attorney for the petitioners; James Parker is guardian
to Mary Massey and Araminta Massey. The commissioners are to be
selected from Nathaniel Comegys, William Spencer, William Thomas,
Samuel Johnson, and Oliver Smith, all of Kent County. The commissioners
subsequently decided that the land could not be divided, as the heirs
would get less than fifty acres each, and the lands were not worth more
than £7 1/- per acre, whereupon they adjourned for several months to
the second Monday October of 1797, whereupon none of the heirs took the
option of receiving the lands and then paying to the other heirs their
fair shares, so the commission decided that the lands would be sold and
the proceeds divided among the heirs. The terms of the sale are that
one quarter of the purchase money be required at time of sale, and the
remainder to be paid in two equal yearly installments with legal
interest, the sale to be held on January 2, 1798. Subsequently the
lands were sold at public auction to Lewis Blackiston for £7 15/- 8p
per acre, thereby amounting to a total price of £2,076 4/- 1p.
The proceeds were allotted as follows: Lewis Blackiston produced two
deeds, one dated May 25, 1795 and the other dated April 14, 1796 which
conveyed to him the interests of William Massey and Daniel Massey;
Lewis Blackiston is further entitled to one sixth of the land by virtue
of his guardianship of his daughter Milcah Massey Blackiston; one half
of the purchase money goes to Lewis Blackiston to be retained in his
own hands; Ebenezer Palmer gets £346 8p; Mary Massey is allotted £346
8p; and Araminta Massey gets £346 8p. Signed by all of the aforesaid
commissioners; |
TW:2:425 |
1798/03/19 |
|
Elijah Massey
|
County
|
Lib.:No.:Fol.
|
Date
|
| Kent
County: Elijah Massey,
farmer, of Kent County in Maryland leases for 15 pounds per annum a 90
acre parcel called The
Remains of My Lord's Gracious Grant (formerly leased to the late
Robert Ormond, and adjacent to John Brogan's land) from Dennis Dulany. |
JS:29:383 |
1761/05/27 |
| Kent
County: Elijah Massey,
farmer of Kent County in Maryland, buys for £284 5/- a 120 acre portion
of the 307 acre tract called Angels Rest from John McCombs & his
wife Litisha, William McCombs, and Jacob McComb & his wife
Catharine. |
DD:3:107 |
1769/02/01 |
| Kent
County: Elijah Massey of
Kent County in Maryland buys for 250 pounds (of Pennsylvania money)
buys a 139.5 acre portion of a parcel called Angel's Rest (other parts
belonging to John Carlslocks and Jacob Galifons) from Thomas
Witherspoon and wife Susanna. Possible intervention by Bryan
Omeally. |
DD:3:406 |
1771/03/19 |
| Kent
County: Elijah Massey,
farmer, of Kent County in Maryland for 5 shillings buys a 100 acre
parcel, part of Angel's Lott (adjacent to land of the late Robert
Little) from Samuel Davis, Jr., son of Philip Davis, deceased, who had
bought the land from Simon Wilmer, also deceased. |
DD:5:61 |
1775/06/09 |
| Kent
County: Elijah Massey,
farmer, of Kent County in Maryland for 500 pounds buys a 100 acre
parcel adjacent to a tract called Smith's
Park[e] from Samuel Davis, Jr., son of Philip Davis, deceased. |
DD:5:62 |
1775/06/09 |
| Kent
County: Elijah Massey of
Kent County in the State of Maryland buys for £410 in specie a 140 acre
portion of the tract called Angels Rest from Cornelius Vansant, who
purchased the tract from Jacob Gibson. |
BC:3:45 |
1790/07/15 |
| Kent
County: Benjamin Massey of
Kent County, Maryland buys for 700 pounds from Elijah Massey and
Nicholas Massey a 100-acre parcel of land that adjoins lands belonging
to the estate of Robert Little. |
TW:2:149 |
1802/03/15 |
| Kent
County: Elijah Massey and
Benjamin Massey of Kent County in the State of Maryland sell a 54-1/2
acre portion and a 2-1/4 acre portion of Angels Rest for £552 to
Casparis Meginniss, also of Kent County. |
TW:3:274 |
1805/09/05 |
| Kent
County: Casparis Meginniss
and Elijah Massey make an agreement regarding the boundaries of Angels
Rest. |
TW:3:388 |
1806/03/18 |
| Kent
County: Elijah Massey of
Kent County in the State of Maryland sells for 7/- 6p to Benjamin
Massey, also of Kent County, the 121 acre parcel of Angels Rest that
Elijah bought from John William and [illegible name.] |
BC:5:187 |
1808/02/19 |
| Kent
County: Benjamin Massey of
Kent County in the State of Maryland sells a 54-1/2 acre portion of
Angels Lot for £552 10/- to Casparis Meginniss. |
BC:5:207 |
1808/03/08 |
Kent
County: Winder Massey of
the City of Baltimore in the State of Maryland buys a 142 acre portion
of Angels Rest for $1.00 from his grandfather Elijah Massey, who
purchased the tract from Cornelius Vansant, deceased, who in turn had
obtained it from Jacob Gibson. Ann Massey, mother of Winder
Massey, now lives on Angels Rest.
|
BC:6:356 |
1811/03/19 |
| Kent
County: Benjamin Massey,
Esquire, of Kent County, buys for £710 the 142 acre tract called Angels
Rest from Winder Massey, gentleman of Baltimore County, who had bought
the tract from his grandfather Elijah Massey. |
BC:6:479 |
1811/07/15 |
| Kent
County: Elijah Massey, out
of love and affection for Pamela Lambden Massey (daughter of Benjamin
Massey) and Francis Massey (daughter of James Massey) gives the 229
acre tract called Angels Rest (Elijah's present home) to Pamela and
Francis as tenants in common with the proviso that, should Pamela die
unmarried before the age of 21, her share of Angels Rest should go to
Carolyn Massey (another daughter of Benjamin Massey). Angels Rest
was acquired by Elijah from Thomas Witherspoon and adjoins lands of
Casparis Meginniss and Benjamin Massey. |
BC:6:476 |
1811/07/16 |
| Kent
County: Francis Massey
Seegar, wife of Arthur Seegar, (both of Queen Anne's County in the
State of Maryland) having reached the age of twenty one, completes the
sale of her
share of Angels Rest that had been willed to her and her sister Pamela
Lambden Massey by Elijah Massey when Francis was a minor, on April
16, 1811. Benjamin Massey of Kent County is the buyer, at
$3,000.00. According to the referenced
deed, Pamela Lambden Massey is the daughter of Benjamin Massey and
Francis Massey is the daughter of James Massey. |
WS:3:474 |
1821/12/29 |
| Kent
County: Joshua W. Massey
and Pamela L. Massey of Queen Anne's County in the State of Maryland
sell for $1.00 to Benjamin Massy (Massey) for his natural life and
Caroline E. Massy (Massey) for ever a 139-1/2 acre portion of Angels
Lot that Pamela L[ambden] Massey was given by her grandfather Elijah
Massy (Massey). |
TW:4:188 |
1823/01/30 |
|
Hemsley Massey
|
County
|
Lib.:No.:Fol.
|
Date
|
Queen
Anne's County: Moses
Massey of Queen Anne's County in the State of Maryland gives out
of good will and affection a number of items and real estate to his
children: daughter Permela, son Samuel, son Hemsley, daughter
Elizabeth, son Levi, his friend Rachel Lacharse and his daughter
Permela, the wife of John Peters. To Parmela Massey Peters: a horse
called Ball; To Samuel Massey: a horse called Liberty, one bed &
furniture, one brindle cow, one sow & six pigs, one iron pot, one
pewter dish & two ewes; to Hemsley Massey: one horse called Triall,
one bed & furniture, one cow called Star, one sow and five pigs,
one iron pot, one pewter dish, two ewes, one desk, one case of bottles,
one slave woman named Silve; to Elizabeth Massey: one slave girl named
Tempe, one horse called Sorrel, one (new) side saddle, one red &
white cow, one brown heifer, one iron pot, one pewter dish, one red
chest, one bed & furniture, two ewes, one sow, one white table; to
Levi Massey: one colt called Kistor, one bed & furniture, one iron
pot, one pewter dish, two ewes, one sow & five pigs, six pewter
plates, one cow called Lill, one brown chest; to Rachel Lacharse: one
cow called Blacko, one horse called Pall, the colt the mare is big with
excepted, one small pewter dish, one ewe, one hog, one linen wheel and
groat to the aforesaid names above mentioned. Household stuff,
implements, chattels to me belonging & which I may justly claim as
in right, my own whether alive or dead as well moveables or things
immoveable, both real & personal in whose hands custody or
possession so ever they be or whosoever the same or any of them or any
part of them can or may now hereafter be found remaining or being, as
well in the messuage or tenement with the appurtenances wherein I now
dwell as in any place or messuage whatsoever ... Witnesses: James
Massey, William Massey, and Charles Simmond.
|
RT:L:445 |
1781/10/26 |
| Queen
Anne's County: Samuel
Massey, planter of Queen Anne's County in Maryland sells for £240 to
Hemsley Massey, planter, also of Queen Anne's County, a 60 acre portion
of the tract called Friendship which Samuel Massey inherited from his
father Moses Massey. |
STW:1:27 |
1788/03/25 |
| Queen
Anne's County: Samuel
Massey, planter of Queen Anne's County in the State of Maryland sells
for £30 to Hemsley Massey, also of Queen Anne's County, one slave girl
about five years old named Temssy, one slave child about three years
old named Stan, one small boy named Corner Cubbard, one blue chest, one
bed with some furniture, the whole valued at about £30. |
STW:1:29 |
1788/03/25 |
| Queen
Anne's County: James
Massey, Senior, planter of Queen Anne's County in the State of Maryland
sells for 5/- to James Massey, Junior, also of Queen Anne's County a
portion of the tract called Friendship, lying in Queen Anne's County.
... a division line between
Hemsley Massey and the said James Massey, Senior. |
STW:2:405 |
1793/05/20 |
| Queen
Anne's County: Hemsley
Massey, gentleman of Queen Anne's County in the State of Maryland sells
for 5/- out of love and affection to Pamelia (Pamela) Massey, his
daughter, all that part of a tract of land on the West side of the
Unicorn Branch of Chester River which was formerly the property
of Hemsley Massey, father to the said Hemsley Massey, and which is now
in the tenure of [i.e., leased to] William Beely Clark. |
STW:4:26 |
1796/06/13 |
| Queen
Anne's County: Hemsley
Massey, farmer of Queen Anne's County in the State of Maryland buys for
£1,106 10/- from James Gilbert and George Gilbert, farmers, also of
Queen Anne's County, 169-1/2 acres, consisting of one portion of the
tract called Jerusalem
which lies to the Westward of William Gilbert's dwelling house. |
STW:4:49 |
1796/08/09 |
Queen
Anne's County: Hemsley
Massey, farmer of Queen Anne's County in the State of Maryland buys for
£213 from William Gilbert, also farmer of Queeen Anne's County, a
30-1/2 acre portion of the tract called Neglect lying in Queen Anne's
County, which William Gilbert formerly purchased from Jonathan Jester.
Courses: Beginning at a stone standing at the end of the first line of
the tract called Jerusalem
...
|
STW:4:51 |
1796/08/09 |
| Queen
Anne's County: At James
Massey's request, a commission is hereby set up to commemorate the
memory of the bounds of these lands, all lying in Queen Anne's County
in the State of Maryland: part of Friendship, part of Spry's
Friendship, part of Massey's
Part of Friendship Corrected, all of Spry's
Chance, and part of Hazard
which descended to James Massey and Joshua Massey by the death of their
father, James Massey, who died intestate. The commission was composed
of Benjamin Roberts, Thomas Seegar, George Jackson, Samuel Rochester
and James Ronberry, gentlemen of Queen Anne's County, but George
Jackson did not participate. The commissioners appointed Cornelius
Comegys as surveyor and John Comegys and David Spry as chain
carriers. After their survey, which encompassed the contiguous
tracts totaling 459 acres, a division line was chosen such that the
land lying Northward of the division line would go to James Massey and
be adjacent to lands he already owns, and lands to the Southward of the
division line would go to Joshua Massey as of November 29, 1797. |
RT:3:314 |
1797/10/28 |
| Queen
Anne's County: James
Massey, farmer of Queen Annee's County in the State of Maryland sells
for £1,275 to Hemsley Massey, also farmer of Queen Anne's County, parts
of the following tracts totaling 345 acres: Massey's
Part of Friendship Corrected, Spry's
Chance, and Spry's Friendship ... a division line formerly established between
James Massey, deceased, and William Massey, also deceased, by the Will
of their late father, James Massey ... One exception is a forty foot square burial
ground within Massey's Part of Friendship Corrected that is reserved
for James Massey and his heirs with the privilege of egress and regress. |
STW:4:445 |
1798/06/12 |
| Queen
Anne's County: Hemsley
Massey, farmer of Queen Anne's County in the State of Maryland, sells
for 5/- to James Massey, also farmer of Queen Anne's County, 242-3/8
acres in two parts of the tract called Jerusalem,
one of the tract called Neglect, and another from the tract called Knowless
(Knowles) Range. The first part of the tract called
Jerusalem, containing 123-1/2 acres, lies to the Westward of the
dividing house of James Massey (which James Massey lately purchased
from William Gilbert of Queen Anne's County). |
STW:4:499 |
1798/09/08 |
| Queen
Anne's County: Hemsley
Massey buys for £110 from Joshua Thomas, of Queen Anne's County in the
State of Maryland, the slave named James, age about thirty years
and formerly the property of William Page of Queen Anne's County. |
STW:5:380 |
1801/01/30 |
| Queen
Anne's County: Hemsley
Massey of Queen Anne's County in Maryland for 280 pounds, 10 shillings
buys a 46.75 acre tract of land called Collins
Range in Queen Anne's County from Daniel Toas Massey, farmer, and
unnamed wife. |
STW:5:527 |
1801/09/21 |
| Queen
Anne's County: Hemsley
Massey, of Queen Anne's County in the State of Maryland, buys for £100
from David Nevil, also of Queen Anne's County, a slave boy called Pere,
about eighteen years of age. |
STW:6:30 |
1802/03/09 |
| Queen
Anne's County: Patent - The
Widows Lot: 2 acres - Developer/Owner:
Hemsley Massey. |
IC:B:148 |
1803/01/01 |
| Queen
Anne's County: Hemsley
Massey and James Massey of Queen Anne's County in the State of Maryland
buy for £30 from Daniel Hockings, also of Queen Anne's County, the
slave woman called Eve, about forty years old. |
STW:6:264 |
1803/02/08 |
| Queen
Anne's County:Patent - Masseys
Meadow: 9-1/4 acres - Developer/Owner: Hemsley Massey. |
IC:B:223 |
1803/07/26 |
| Queen
Anne's County: Hemsley
Massey of Queen Anne's County in Maryland for 1,500 pounds buys a 399.5
acre tract of land (including the 46.75 acres bought in 1801) called Collins
Range or Collins His Range in Queen Anne's County from Daniel Toas
Massey, farmer. ... said
lines also include the quantity of forty six acres and three eights of
an acre of land heretofore sold and conveyed by the said Daniel Toas
Massey to the said Hemsley Massey and for which no consideration money
is now paid by the said Hemsley Massey to the said Daniel Toas Massey.
Witnesses: William Lindsay, William B. Hackett, William &
Joshua Massey, and Hemsley Massey. |
STW:6:493 |
1804/10/04 |
| Queen
Anne's County: Hemsley
Massey, farmer of Queen Anne's County in the State of Maryland buys for
$5.00 from Philip Reed, Esquire, of Kent County, a 399-1/2 acre portion
of the tract variously called Collins
Range or Collins His Range lying in Queen Anne's County. |
STW:6:495 |
1804/10/25 |
| Queen
Anne's County: Hemsley
Massey of Queen Anne's County in the State of Maryland buys for £175
from Richard Covington and wife Elizabeth, also of Queen Anne's County,
a portion of the tract called Manor's Chance, lying in Queen Anne's
County. |
STW:7:197 |
1804/12/28 |
| Queen
Anne's County: Hemsley
Massey of Queen Anne's County in the State of Maryland buys for £330
from John Maynor, also of Queen Anne's County, all of his sixth parts
of a number of tracts of land in Queen Anne's County called [illegible]
Chance, [illegible] Tract, Jones Delight, two lots at [illegible] Cross
Roads, being part of a tract called [illegible], Friendship and Spry's
Chance which descended to him from his father Benjamin Maynor, who
died intestate about August 1, 18[illegible] ... John Maynor also had a
brother, Mark Maynor who died about September 1, 1803, from whom John
Maynor [may have - illegible reading here] inherited one fourth parts
of the tracts called Isaac's Delight, and [illegible] containing about
one hundred and twenty acres. |
STW:7:272 |
1805/05/16 |
| Queen
Anne's County: Hemsley
Massey of Queen Anne's County in the State of Maryland buys for £550
10/- 6p from John Spry, also of Queen Anne's County, a 76-1/4 acre
portion of the tract called Spry's
Adventure, lying in Queen Anne's County. |
STW:7:361 |
1805/09/16 |
| Queen
Anne's County: James
Massey, farmer of Queen Anne's County in Maryland, stands indebted in
the sum of £2,862 8/- 9p to William Tilghman, gentleman of the
City of Philadelphia, and intends to secure the payment of this debt in
three annual and equal installments with legal interest by the
following mortgage on 501-1/4 acres of his land: James Massey, in
consideration of the sum of five shillings paid to him by William
Tilghman, sells to him portions of two tracts, one called
Addition, the other, Hemsley's
Reserve. |
STW:8:29 |
1806/01/04 |
| Queen
Anne's County: James
Massey, farmer of Queen Anne's County in the State of Maryland,
completes the repayment of his debt to William Tilghman, Esquire,
deceased, of the City of Philadelphia, by purchasing the combined
880-3/4 acres of Addition, Hemsley's
Reserve, and Whitton for the sum remaining due on the mortgage of
January 4, 1806, by a complex transaction. It seems from the
records of Orphan's Court in Kent County that the mortgage was sold to
Capt. Richard Bennett Lloyd, since deceased, who had leased the land to
William Robinson and a man named Green, which he purchased of James
Hindeman, and the land fell to Philemon Tilghman, son of the elder
William, who soon died, leaving the land to be sold for the best
price. Sons James Tilghman and William Tilghman were set to that task,
but James died, leaving the present William Tilghman to complete the
sale to James Massey for £5,724 17/- 6p at the rate of £6 10/- per
acre, of the original 852-3/4 acres plus the 28 acres of the adjoining
tract called Whitton. |
STW:8:44 |
1806/01/17 |
| Queen
Anne's County: Hemsley
Massey of Queen Anne's County in the State of Maryland buys for £60
from Jonathan Evans, also of Queen Anne's County, the slave named
Isaac, about thirty two years old. |
STW:8:54 |
1806/01/21 |
| Queen
Anne's County: Hemsley
Massey [of Queen Anne's County in the State of Maryland] buys for
$266.67 from Henry Pryor, administrator of the estate of Cornelius
Comegys, a slave named Peter, twenty two years of age, formerly the
property of Cornelius Comegys. |
STW:9:154 |
1807/01/18 |
| Queen
Anne's County: Hemsley
Massey, gentleman of Queen Anne's County in the State of Maryland,
accepts a bond in the amount of $1,200 from Charles Price, physician,
also of Queen Anne's County to secure a debt of $600, to be repaid by
Mr. Price at the rate of two hundred dollars on each successive
December 25th of the years 1808, 1809, and 1810, with legal interest
thereon. Further security is provided by the indenture ceding title to
Mr. Massey of a lot of land and messuage located at Sudlers Cross Roads
in Queen Anne's County described in a deed bearing the date of January
14, 1807, for which Mr. Massey paid $5 to Mr. Price; the deed is to
become null and void if Mr. Price makes good on his debt to Mr. Massey. |
STW:8:376 |
1807/02/02 |
| Queen
Anne's County: Hemsley
Massey, gentleman of Queen Anne's County in the State of Maryland sells
for $860.00 to George Palmer, Esquire, also of Queen Anne's County, two
lots located in Queen Anne's County, one of which formerly belonged to
Sarah Maynor, late of Queen Anne's County, being part of several tracts
called The Addition, The
Beginning, and Stead's
Go Between, which were surveyed and divided by a commission
appointed by Queen Anne's County Court to distribute the lands among
the children of Sarah Maynor, Lot No. [illegible] being allotted
to John Maynor, edest son, who sold it to Hemsley Massey, ... The
second lot is part of a tract called Joneses Delight, formerly the
property of Benjamin Maynor, late of Queen Anne's County, which
descended unto John Maynor and the other children and heirs. |
STW:8:390 |
1807/02/10 |
| Queen
Anne's County: Hemsley
Massey, gentleman of Queen Anne's County in the State of Maryland sells
for $600.00 to Dr. Charles Price, physician, also of Queen Anne's
County, two lots of land, one purchased from Thomas Sudler, late of
Queen Anne's County, the other sold by Benjamin Maynor, also late of
Queen Anne's County, later descended to John Maynor and other children
of Benjamin Maynor, from whom Hemsley Massey purchased them, properly
divided. |
STW:8:411 |
1807/05/30 |
| Queen
Anne's County: Joshua
Massey of Queen Anne's County in the State of Maryland sells for 5/- to
Ann Massey Elliott, wife of Samuel Elliott, all of the lands which his
father, Hemsley Massey, deceased, left to Joshua's sister Ann Massey,
now Ann Elliott, also of Queen Anne's County. Hemsley Massey left to
Joshua Massey and to his legitimate children all the lands on which he
resided as well as half of the land which he purchased from Philip Reed
and from Daniel T. Massey, that being the half next to the land of
George Palmer. Joshua now wishes to comply with the Will of his
father, Hemsley Massey, by conveying to Ann Massey Elliott her share of
the aforesaid lands, being all that part of Friendship, all of Masseys
Part of Friendship Corrected, two parts of a tract called Bridgewater,
and all of the tract called Nasby's
Addition. |
STW:10:267 |
1809/03/02 |
| Queen
Anne's County: Ebenezer T.
Massey and wife Emily Ann Massey of Kent County in the State of
Maryland sell for $3,000.00 to Samuel O. Meginniss of Queen Anne's
County all that tract called Collins
Range, containing 400 acres, excepting 24 acres willed by Hemsley
Massey, late of Queen Anne's County to Joshua Massey, also deceased and
late of Queen Anne's County, and a few acres sold by Ebenezer T. Massey
and wife to Winbert [illegible surname], which land descended to
Ebenezer T. Masseyand wife Emily Ann Massey by the death of her father
Hemsley Massey, late of Queen Anne's County, all lands lying in the
upper part of Queen Anne's County whereon John Jones now lives, which
was purchased by Hemsley Massey from Daniel T. Massey, late of Queen
Anne's County,and is bounded on the North by the lands of John
Rochester's heirs, on the East by the lands of Samuel Cacy, on the
South by the lands of Joshua W. Massey's heirs, and on the West by the
[two letters] Lyon Branch. |
JT:1:139 |
1834/07/15 |
| Queen
Anne's County: Ebenezer T.
Massey and his wife, formerly Emily Ann Massey, formerly of Kent County
in the State of Maryland sells for $150.00 to Christopher Garthand of
Queen Anne's County, all of the tract called Shedmore (or Skidmore)
that Emily Ann Massey inherited from her father, Hemsley Massey,
deceased, which is described in the deed dated January 14, 1807,
and recorded in Liber
STW, [No.8], Folio 411, 412 & 413. |
JT:2:217 |
1837/05/08 |
| Queen
Anne's County: Frances
Massey, widow of James Massey, deceased, both of Queen Anne's County in
the State of Maryland agrees with Charles J.B. Mitchell, also of Queen
Anne's County, to exchange her dower rights in all that 412 acre
plantation lying in Queen Anne's County adjoining Queen's Town, on
which the said James Massey resided at the time of his death, and which
is composed of parts of various tracts called Neale's
Residence, Lord's
Gift, Hemsley,
Emory's Fortune, and Comsey's
Addition or Ronnie's Outlet, containing four hundred and twelve
acres, which the said Charles J.B. Mitchell already owns, in return for
an annuity or rent charge during her lifetime of three hundred and
fifty dollars. payable in equal quarterly installments, commencing from
December 1, 1854, on the last days of March, June, September and
December of the year 1854 and of each and every year thereafter as long
as the said Frances Massey may live without any deduction or abatement
for any cause whatever. |
JP:1:525 |
1853/10/04 |
|
Benjamin Addison
Massey
|
County
|
Lib.:No.:Fol.
|
Date
|
Queen
Anne's County: A commission
is set up to divide the lands of the late Joshua W. Massey of Queen
Anne's County in the State of Maryland and is made up of the following
men: Jesse Knock, William H. Foster, Arthur E. Sudler, James Giant
[maybe Skint], and Edward Coppage, all of Queen Anne's County.
The lands at issue are: Friendship, Maynors Chance, Irish Farm etc. The
heirs of Joshua W. Massey are: William R. Massey, James H. Massey,
Marietta I. Dobbs (wife of Alexander Dobbs, formerly Marietta Massey)
Joseph A. Massey, Thomas C. Massey, Benjamin A. Massey and Pamela L.
Massey, his widow. Thomas C. Massey, who was a minor, initiated
the formation of this commission in order properly to divide the lands
of Joshua W. Massey.
|
JT:4:498 |
1845/08/19 |
| Queen
Anne's County: Pamela L.
Massey, Joshua A. Massey, and [] his wife, all of the County of Sumples
in the State of Alabama, Benjamin A. Massey and Anna Massey, his wife,
Thomas E. Massey and Sara Massey, his wife, and Alexander F. Dobbs and
Henrietta Dobbs, his wife, all of the State of Ohio, sell for $3,000.00
to Ebenezer T. Massey of Kent County in the State of Maryland the
tracts called Maynor's Chance, Tilghman's Friendship, and Collins
Range, formerly the property of Joshua W. Massey, deceased, who was
the husband of Pamela L. Massey and the father of Joshua A. Massey,
Benjamin A. Massey, Thomas E. Massey, and Henrietta I. Dobbs, his
children and heirs at law. |
JT:5:345 |
1847/12/07 |
| Queen
Anne's County: A commission
described in Liber
JT No.4 Folio 498 evaluated and then sold at public auction the
lands of the late Joshua W. Massey of Queen Anne's County in the State
of Maryland. The present deed describes the sale and lands conveyed to
Ebenezer T. Massey of Kent County in the State of Maryland. As before,
the commissioners are Jesse Knock of Kent County, and William H. Foster
and Arthur E. Sudler of Queen Anne's County. The commission was
established by petition from Benjamin A. Massey to dispose fairly the
lands of Joshua W. Massey, now among them the tracts called Tilghman's
Friendship, Pryor's [illegible], and Maynor's Chance. ... twenty acres was assigned to Pamela L.
Massey as part of her dower. |
JT:5:493 |
1848/05/29 |
|
John Massey
|
County
|
Lib.:No.:Fol.
|
Date
|
| Queen
Anne's County: John Massey
and James Massey, shoemakers of Queen Anne's County in Maryland, buy
for 6,000 pounds of leaf tobacco from John Andrew, planter, and Hannah
his wife, as well as Boynton Newnam and Hannah his wife, all of Queen
Anne's County, the 118-1/2 acre parcel called Smith's
Delight. |
RT:C:6 |
1743/07/28 |
Kent
County: John Massey,
planter of Queen Anne's County in Maryland and wife Sarah Usher Massey,
granddaughter of Thomas Usher and cousin and heir of John Usher, sell
for £55 a 55 acre tract called Neglect
to William Wilshire, also a planter, of Kent County.
|
JS:28:112 |
1755/01/20 |
| Queen
Anne's County: John Massey,
planter (son of James Massey, deceased) of Queen Anne's County in
Maryland for 2 pounds, 2 shillings buys a 13.25 acre tract of land
called Massey's
Part of Friendship Corrected from James Massey, planter. |
RT:F:220 |
1762/06/22 |
| Kent
County: Mary Massey, et al,
widow of Daniel Massey, inherits the tract called Partnership, 110
acres of which are to be divided amongst the heirs: John Massey (100
acres) his four grandsons Daniel Toas Massey, Stephen Massey, Joseph
Massey, and John Massey, (two thirds of the unstated remainder) and his
10 granddaughters (one acre each), from Mary Massey to receive the last
one third of the remainder from among the four grandsons' lands.
Commissioners: Robert Maxwell, James Pearce, and Nathaniel Comegys
under a bond of 10,000 pounds of specie. Mary Massey is the widow of
Daniel Massey, decedent, whose Will is being settled. Guardians
for the underage heirs: Abraham Falconar, guardian to Joseph Massey,
son of Joseph; Josiah Massey, guardian to John Massey, son of said
Joseph. Note: the acreage of Partnership is nowhere mentioned,
and the survey of the entire tract is not included in this
document. Adjoining tracts include Henry Clark's land and Holdman
Johnston's heirs' land. |
EF:6:37 |
1781/03/19 |
| Kent
County: Lewis Inry and
Elizabeth (nee Massey) Inry of Kent County in Maryland buy for an
additional 16 pounds, 2 shillings and 6 pence (over 68 pounds, 5
shillings, 6 pence already paid) for a 0.5 acre parcel called
Rich Leville (which Simon Wilmer once sold to Benjamin Dawes) from the
heirs of Thomas Gilpin (Sarah Massey had sold the land to Thomas
Gilpin, who died before the transaction could be completed; afterwards
Sarah Massey also died intestate, having born John Massey, who was lost
at sea, and the aforesaid Elizabeth Massey, sole surviving heir) i.e.,
Lydia Gilpin, Thomas Fisher, Samuel Rowland Fisher, Miers Fisher, and
Joshua Gilpin, collectively represented by William Tilghman, Esquire. |
EF:7:527 |
1790/01/04 |
Kent
County: Joseph Massey (as
partner and together with the late Abraham [?] Massey), merchant of
Kent County in the State of Maryland, sells, for (shortening a long
story involving a debt and Susannah Warder Parkes Humpany, merchant of
the City of Philadelphia and Jeremiah Warder) £348 5/- 5-1/2p, a 200
acre part of the tract called Partnership which Joseph inherited from
Daniel Massey, deceased, unto John Warder of the City of
Philadelphia. Courses: Beginning at a stone laid on the West side
of the main road leading from the Head of Sassafras River to the Head
of Chester River, then running West two and a half degrees North three
hundred and eighty perches with the division line of the said Joseph
Massey and a certain John Massey's lands ...
|
EF:7:532 |
1790/02/23 |
Queen
Anne's County: John Massey
was a minor when this valuation was done so as to estimate the amount
of yearly payment his guardian William Hathaway should pay John for
operating his own 507 acre plantation, called Bridgewater.
Justice of the Peace Abraham Falconar and two good citizens, Francis
Rochester and Abraham Millon, visited the land and premises to do so,
coming up with a valuation of fifty pounds annually, reduced because
the wife of William Falconar had a dower right to one-third of such
income, leaving John Massey with 33 pounds and change per year.
|
STW:1:454 |
1790/07/28 |
| Queen
Anne's County: John Massey
executes the manumission of a slave named Daniel, to be effective on
the first of January of the following year, after receiving $600 cash
from Robert Mattey in consideration for doing so. |
STW:8:114 |
1806/03/10 |
| Queen
Anne's County: John Massey
of Queen Anne's County in the State of Maryland buys for 5/- from
Daniel Rochester, also of Queen Anne's County, a 196 acre portion of
the tract called Bridgewater
in Queen Anne's County. |
STW:9:143 |
1807/12/26 |
| Queen
Anne's County: John Massey
and wife Mary of Queen Anne's County sell for five shillings the 196
acre tract called Bridgewater
to Daniel Rochester. |
STW:9:144 |
1807/12/19 |
| Queen
Anne's County: Joshua
Massey of Queen Anne's County buys for $5 the 500 acre tract of land
called Bridgewater
from John Massey as collateral for the sum of £250 owed by John to
Joshua, which sale becomes null and void if John Massey makes good on
his debt. |
STW:9:192 |
1809/10/27 |
| Kent
County: Benjamin Massey of
Kent County in the State of Maryland buys, for $1,500.00, a 60 acre
portion of Angels Rest and 15 acres of woodland in Partnership from
Moses Tenannt and wife Frances H. Tennant, also of Kent County. The
parcel lies in the North West corner of the roads leading from Masseys
Cross Roads to the Head of Sassafras River and from the aforesaid Cross
Roads to Georgetown, containing sixty acres, and also fifteen acres of
woodland contained and being in the before-mentioned tract called
Partnership adjoining the lands of the heirs of the late John Massy
(Massey) and John Neuman. |
BC:6:106 |
1810/02/19 |
Queen
Anne's County: John Massey
for the sum of $1.00 sells the 200 acre tract called Bridgewater
(inherited from his late father Eleazer Massey) and sundry slave boys
James, Emmanuel, Barry and John, and a slave girl named Esther, to be
placed in trust with James Duhanel for his daughters Rachel, Sarah Ann,
and unnamed children. Witnesses: Justices of the Peace Robert Stevens
and John Duhanel.
|
JB:1:283 |
1812/04/28 |
| Queen
Anne's County: Joshua
Massey of Queen Anne's County in the State of Maryland completes the
sale of the tract called Bridgewater
to Juliet Massey and Sarah Ann Massey, the only children and heirs of
John Massey, deceased. John Massey had purchased Bridgewater from
Joshua Massey by a mortgage deed dated October 27, 1809 for for £250;
the mortgage to Joshua Massey has now been fully satisfied and so he
his conveying Bridgewater to Juliet and Sarah Ann Massey for $1.00. |
JB:2:112 |
1813/06/26 |
|
Ebenezer Thomas
Massey
and
Emily Ann
Massey
|
County
|
Lib.:No.:Fol.
|
Date
|
| Kent
County: 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. |
TW:4:179 |
1822/08/08 |
| Queen
Anne's County: Ebenezer T.
Massey and Emily Ann Massey of Kent County in Maryland sell for
$4,600.00 all or parts of the following tracts of land, all lying in
Queen Anne's County: Maynor's Chance (150 acres), Spry's
Adventure (76-1/4 acres), Massey's
Meadows (3+ acres), and Widow's
Lott (2 acres), following the directive of an act of the Assembly
passed February 15, 1822, to Joshua W. Massey of Queen Anne's
County. These tracts abut each other and several other tracts:
Dunganon, Shepherd's
Forest, Shephard's [illegible] Addition, and Massey's Part of
Friendship Corrected, & a tract of land called Maynor's Chance. |
TM:3:50 |
1822/09/18 |
| Kent
County: 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,
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]. |
TW:4:178 |
1823/08/09 |
| Kent
County: Benjamin Masden and
Nathaniel Bunker of the City of Philadelphia authorize the Clerk of
Kent County to set up a commission to authorize the execution of a deed
of transfer to Ebenezer T. Massey of Kent County in the State of
Maryland for land conveyed in a mortgage recorded by deed on January 7,
1820. Accordingly, Thomas Worrell, Esquire, Clerk of Kent County Court
is hereby authorized to direct the commissioners Samuel Spackman, John
White and John J. Caroling, Junior, merchants of the City of
Philadelphia to take, receive and certify [the] acknowledgement.
... [Note: the previous commission was set up to review a sale to
Benjamin Massey; in the interim, Benjamin sold the land, presumably the
two portions of Partnership totaling 262 acres, to Ebenezer T. Massey -
GL,III,ed.] |
TW:4:420 |
1824/05/30 |
| Kent
County: Benjamin Masden and
Nathan Bunker of the City of Philadelphia are issued the authorization
of a commission set up to review the transfer of land previously sold
by deed of mortgage to Benjamin Massey. Benjamin then
independently sold the land to Ebenezer T. Massey. The
commissioners are Samuel Spackman, John White, and John Harding,
Junior, Esquire of the City of Philadelphia. |
TW:4:580 |
1824/11/11 |
| Queen
Anne's County: Joshua I.
Massey of Queen Anne's County in Maryland for 200 dollars buys a 16
acre tract of land called Spry's
Chance and another tract of 33 acres called Friendship (purchased
from Robert Holliday or Holoday by Benjamin Massey, deceased) from
Ebenezer T. Massey and wife Emily. Adjoining lands include
parcels owned by Joseph Thompson, Benjamin Covington. |
TM:4:430 |
1827/10/23 |
| Kent
County: Augustin Hall, free
Negro of Kent County in the State of Maryland, sells the 17 acre lot
whereon he now lives for $125.00 to Ebenezer T. Massey, also of Kent
County. The land lies in Kent County on the road leading from
Masseys Cross Roads to Georgetown Cross Roads and is the parcel which
the aforesaid Augustin Hall purchased from William Glascow and wife in
January 1800. |
JNG:1:236 |
1828/03/08 |
| Kent
County: William Thomas
([son ?] of John) of Kent County in the State of Maryland, in order to
take advantage of the bankruptcy laws of Maryland, transfers for 5/- to
Ebenezer T. Massey, also of Kent county, the 500 acre parcel in Queen
Anne's County, Maryland, that was formerly owned by Lewis Blackiston,
deceased, from whom William Thomas leased the land, and against which
Samuel G. Gibson has executed a lien for a large sum of money.
Also included is a one acre lot which William Thomas had purchased from
Richard Lacy (free Negro) as well as the following list of personal
property which have been conveyed to Alexander C. Cosden by Bill of
Sale: One [illegible], ten trunks, one [illegible], one tin canister,
one silver ladle, thirty six silver spoons, one pair of silver sugar
tongs, one bureau, one small stove, and one pianoforte. Excluded are
wearing apparel and bedding for himself and family. Ebenezer T. Massey
also acquires Mr. Thomas's debts in this transaction. |
JNG:2:156 |
1830/03/18 |
| Kent
County: Hannah Riley signs
over for $300.00 to David Cummins all her right, title and interest in
the mortgage deed dated January 23, 1835, executed with Ebenezer T.
Massey (JNG:3:514) that covers the parcels, Meginniss
Part of Angels Rest Resurveyed, Angels Lot and Smiths
(Smyths) Park; and a woodland, totaling 400 acres. |
JNG:2:458 |
1831/10/07 |
| Kent
County: John B. Eccleston,
acting as Trustee for Chancery Court, sells for $5.00 a 2 acre parcel
of land formerly owned by Thomas Numberg, deceased, late of Kent
County, along with debts owed by Mr. Numberg, to Ebenezer T. Massey of
Kent County. The land is located at Massey's Cross Roads in Kent
County, being a lot formerly owned by Mary Newnam, deceased. Thomas
Numberg had bought the Newnam property under a commission from Kent
County Court but had failed to satisfy several bonds given to the heirs
of Mary Neenam; hence this forced sale, wherein Mr. Massey becomes
obliged to settle the debt and discharge the liens instead. |
JNG:3:189 |
1833/08/06 |
| Queen
Anne's County: Ebenezer
Thomas Massey of Kent County in the State of Maryland buys for from
Isaac Hines, trustee assigned by Chancery Court of Maryland to dispose
of three acres of the lands of Isaac Jackson, who had sold them to
Ebenezer Thomas Massey by a deed which remained unpaid at the time of
Mr. Jackson's death, a balance of $500.00 remaining due, since
satisfied by payment of that sum with legal interest to trustee Isaac
Hines, and to Sarah Elizabeth Jackson, widow of Isaac Jackson in lieu
of dower, so Mr. Hines has agreed to execute the present deed. |
TM:6:527 |
1833/10/30 |
| Kent
County: Mary Thomas of Kent
County in the State of Maryland sells for $2,000.00 to Ebenezer T.
Massey part of the parcel called London
Bridge Renewed, which was conveyed by Ann Thomas to James Parker
and Catherine Parker, his wife, with provisions in favor of Catherine,
reference being to the deed dated July 11,1827 and to her Will of the
same date. |
JNG:3:354 |
1834/03/18 |
| Queen
Anne's County: Ebenezer T.
Massey and wife Emily Ann Massey of Kent County in the State of
Maryland sell for $3,000.00 to Samuel O. Meginniss of Queen Anne's
County all that tract called Collins
Range, containing 400 acres, excepting 24 acres willed by Hemsley
Massey, late of Queen Anne's County to Joshua Massey, also deceased and
late of Queen Anne's County, and a few acres sold by Ebenezer T. Massey
and wife to Winbert [illegible surname], which land descended to
Ebenezer T. Massey and wife Emily Ann Massey by the death of her father
Hemsley Massey, late of Queen Anne's County, all lands lying in the
upper part of Queen Anne's County whereon John Jones now lives, which
was purchased by Hemsley Massey from Daniel T. Massey, late of Queen
Anne's County,and is bounded on the North by the lands of John
Rochester's heirs, on the East by the lands of Samuel Cacy, on the
South by the lands of Joshua W. Massey's heirs, and on the West by the
[two letters] Lyon Branch, containing about three hundred and seventy
acres. |
JT:1:139 |
1834/07/15 |
Queen
Anne's County: William
R.Massey of Baltimore County in the State of Maryland agrees to
relinquish his one sixth moiety in all the lands in Queen Anne's and
Kent counties that he inherited from Joshua W. Massey in exchange for
$1,000.00 in cash (less any money owed by William R. Massey to Pamela
L. Massey at the time of settlement on the first of January next) and
the transfer of slaves Robert and Shadrach paid to him by Pamela L.
Massey of the City of Baltimore. The lands are: Bath,
Friendship Manors, Chance, White Oak, Adventure, and Browne's Purchase,
which Joshua W. Massey purchased from James Barr of Kent County.
Witnesses: Ebenezer T. Massey and Thomas Sappington.
|
JT:1:143 |
1834/07/21 |
| Kent
County: Emily Ann Massey of
Kent County in the State of Maryland buys, for $4,500.00 from Samuel C.
Meginniss and wife Ann Meginniss of Queen Anne's County, the tracts
called Meginniss
Part of Angels Rest Resurveyed, Angels Lot, Smiths
(Smyths) Park, and 20 acres of woodland in Spring Garden and
Partnership. The lands were devised to Samuel C. Meginniss and
Hannah Riley by Casparis Meginniss, late of Kent County by his Will
dated February 9, 1828. |
JNG:3:436 |
1834/09/17 |
| Kent
County: Hannah Riley of
Kent County in the State of Maryland sells for $4,500.00 to Ebenezer T.
Massey portions of the following tracts: Meginniss
Part of Angels Rest Resurveyed, Angels Lot and Smiths
(Smyths) Park; and a 20 acre woodland adjoining a woodlot owned by
Samuel Carlock, being the same lands devised to the said Hannah Riley
and Samuel C. Meginniss by the Will of their father, Casparis
Meginniss, late of Kent County, dated February 9, 1828. |
JNG:3:501 |
1834/12/22 |
| Kent
County: Ebenezer T. Massey
of Kent County in the State of Maryland sells for $5.00 to Hannah
Riley, also of Kent County, the tracts for which he promised to pay
$4,500.00 in a deed dated December 22, 1834: Meginniss
Part of Angels Rest Resurveyed, Angels Lot and Smiths
(Smyths) Park; and a woodland, totaling 400 acres. The debt
is to be paid in installments and be fully paid with legal interest by
January 1, 1839, in which case the sale of the listed tracts becomes
null and void. |
JNG:3:514 |
1835/01/20 |
| Kent
County: Commissioners
Ebenezer T. Massey and Stephen Boyer of Kent County in the State of
Maryland sell for $5.00 to Samuel Hurlock 337+ acres (worth $3,779.925)
of the tracts called [The
Remains of] His Lordships Gracious Grant and two lots in [The]
Adventure. Samuel Hurlock petitioned the Kent County Court that Mary
Newman died intestate, leaving these lands to her minor children:
Nathan, James and Lorenzo Newman, and to William and Elizabeth Newman,
but that William Newman improperly (because of the minority of three of
the children) sold the real estate to Samuel Hurlock in a deed dated
December 30, 1834. The commissioners (originally Ebenezer T. Massey,
Stephen Boyer, and the late George Meginniss) had evaluated the lands
in question and decided that they be sold in their entirety (rather
than breaking them up among the heirs) and the proceeds divided
proportionately among the heirs. Consequently, they sold His
Lordhips Gracious Grant to Samuel Hurlock for $15.00 per acre and 32+
acres of the land called [The] Adventure to Samuel Hurlock at $5.75 per
acre, and another plot at $4.875 [per acre]. |
JNG:4:87 |
1835/11/02 |
| Kent
County: James F. Browne,
formerly tax collector for Kent County in the State of Maryland, sells
at auction the 120 acre tract called Rumford
to settle a tax bill of $3.12 owed by the heirs of Joshua W. Massey.
Pamela L[ambden] Massey is the high bidder at $6.00 through her agent
Ebenezer T. Massey of Kent County. |
JNG:4:433 |
1837/03/07 |
| Queen
Anne's County: Ebenezer T.
Massey and his wife, formerly Emily Ann Massey, formerly of Kent County
in the State of Maryland sells for $150.00 to Christopher Garthand of
Queen Anne's County, all of the tract called Shedmore (or Skidmore)
that Emily Ann Massey inherited from her father, Hemsley Massey,
deceased, which is described in the deed dated January 14, 1807,
and recorded in Liber
STW, [No.8], Folio 411, 412 & 413. |
JT:2:217 |
1837/05/08 |
| Queen
Anne's County: James H.
Massey of Spring Hill in the State of Mississippi, trading as the firm
of Massey & Wapon, is indebted $3,668.19 to the house of trade of
Israel Griffith upon two promissory orders, one dated at Baltimore
August 21, 1837 between Massey & Wapon and Ebenezer T. Massey, the
other between Massey & Wapon and Israel Griffith for
$1,168.19. In order to secure the payment of these debts and to
hold Ebenezer T. Massey harmless, James H. Massey sells for $5.00 to
Israel Griffith and Ebenezer T. Massey one undivided fifth part being
the share and interest of the said James H. Massey which he inherited
from Joshua W. Massey, late of Queen Anne's County, father to James H.
Massey, consisting of the Queen Anne's County tracts called Friendship,
Bath,
Collins
Range, Maynor's Chance, Spry's
Adventure and a tract located in Kent County, together with all the
slaves of his late father, whether divided or undivided. The present
conveyance is to take place only if James H. Massey fails to satisfy
the enumerated debts; if he does make good, the sale becomes null and
void and of no effect. Ebenezer T. Massey has the option to pay some of
the debt himself and thereby to share in the ownership of the lands
should James H. Massey default. |
JT:2:235 |
1837/09/19 |
| Kent
County: Hannah Riley,
Nathaniel Meginnis, and Barsheba Meginnis of Kent County in the State
of Delaware and David Cummins of Kent County in the State of Maryland
release to Ebenezer T. Massey of Kent County, Maryland, the lands which
Ebenezer T. Massey had mortaged to Hannah Riley in a deed of mortgage
dated January 20, 1835 (JNG:3:514-516):
Meginniss
Part of Angels Rest Resurveyed, Angels Lot and Smiths
(Smyths) Park; and a woodland, totaling 400 acres, which Casparis
Meginniss had devised to her and Casparis C. Meginniss in his Will
dated February 9, 1828. In another deed (JNG:2:458-461) Hannah Riley
indemnified Nathaniel Meginnis, and Barsheba Meginnis against all
manner of harm that should arise because of her guardianship of
Casparis M. Riley. Hannah Riley also signed over her interest in
the $4,500.00 mortgage to David Cummins in a deed (JNG:4:60). |
JNG:5:134 |
1837/11/07 |
| Kent
County: Ebenezer T. Massey
of Kent County in the State of Maryland sells for $600.00 to Joseph
Dodson of Cecil County a two acre tract located near Massey's Cross
Roads that was sold to Ebenezer T. Massey by decree of the Chancery
Court of Maryland by John B. Eccleston as trustee for the disposal of
the real estate of Thomas Numbus, deceased, for the payment of his
debts. The land was formerly owned by Mary Newman; and after her death
it was purchased by Thomas Numbus. |
JNG:6:67 |
1839/01/04 |
| Queen
Anne's County: William R.
Massey and wife Emily Ann [not the same Emily Ann Massey that
married Ebenezer T. Massey - GL,III, ed.] of the Town of
Alexandria, District of Columbia, being indebted to [difficult reading
ahead !] A.C. Lazonas, John H. Jannoy, Grupper & Dean - Merchants
[illegible] George L. Bumford of George Town, Crawford of McKim, George
& Mayes, Mason & Hanlen, George C. Rollins, merchants of
Baltimore and Bank of Potomac Alexandria [illegible words] amounting to
about $2,800.00 which William R. Massey desires to pay to his
creditors, through a deed of trust to Christopher Neale, one sixth of
his equity in the following lands: Friendship, Bath,
Manor's Chance, White Oak, Spry's
Adventure, [illegible name] Purchase, containing in all about 2,600
acres in Queen Anne's and Kent counties, all of which belonged to his
father, the late Joshua W. Massey of Queen Anne's County, subject first
to the dower right of Pamela L. Massey, widow of Joshua W. Massey, and
also to a previous mortgage made and executed by William R. Massey to
Joseph [illegible surname] of Baltimore for $1,000 or
thereabouts. Should William R. Massey [somehow] repay the stated
debt, then this indenture becomes null and void. If he defaults,
then Christopher Neale is entitled to sell the aforesaid listed tracts
piecemeal for cash until the debt is satisfied. |
JT:2:623 |
1839/03/01 |
| Queen
Anne's County: Ebenezer T.
Massey of Kent County in the State of Maryland buys for $880.00
from Thomas Gilpin of Brandywine Delaware a part of two large tracts in
Queen Anne's County called London Bridge and Hall's
Harbor which is on the South side of Chester River and on the East
side of Sand Town. ... Also
the said Thomas Gilpin includes in the conveyance an access lot from
the said road, twenty feet wide along the East side of Hall's Harbor on
the course of South forty six degrees East one hundred and twenty two
perches to John E. Stuart's land and from the beginning stone of Hall's
Harbor out to the public road of Queen Anne's County. |
JT:2:551 |
1839/05/06 |
| Kent
County: Ebenezer T. Massey,
Nathaniel Meginniss, Joseph Moffett, and Ebenezer Welch, commissioners
of Kent County in the State of Maryland, sell for to William A. Brice,
also of Kent County, in response to the petition of William A. Brice,
Simon W. Boyer and his wife Sarah Adelaid Boyer, alleging that James
Brice, late of Kent County, possessed lands in Kent County containing a
total of about five hundred acres, and stating that William A. Brice
and Sarah Adelaid Brice, together with Elizabeth Ann Amelia Brice were
the only children of the decedent, but as Elizabeth Ann Amelia Brice
was a minor, no division had yet been made, which the petitioners now
ask the Court to undertake. The lands, known as the Mansion Farm, are
worth about $10.25 per acre, making the value $2,458.36; the lands,
known as Forest Farm, worth about $10.00 per acre, amounts to
about $2,716.00. William A.Brice, as the eldest, chose to take
all the lands at issue and to issue bonds for the proper shares of the
other heirs to settle their claims against the estate of James Brice.
... Also, other tracts
called Bright Helmstead, Pearce's Meadows and Phillip's
Neglect. [Note:
William A. Brice subsequently sold much of these lands to Simon W.
Boyer; see Liber JNG No.6, Folio 133, not included here - GL,III,ed.] |
JNG:6:128 |
1839/05/08 |
| Queen
Anne's County: Joshua I.
Massey & wife Harriet M. Massey of Queen Anne's County in the State
of Maryland sell for $2,600.00 to Charles C. Murray of Kent County
229-1/2 acres of that part of the tract called Hazard
... Also two other tracts
in Queen Anne's County called Spry's
Chance and Friendship, containing forty nine acres which
Joshua Massey purchased from Ebenezer T. Massey by a deed dated
September 6, 1827. |
JT:2:667 |
1839/12/27 |
Queen
Anne's County: James Massey
of Queen Anne's County in the State of Maryland buys for $5.00 from
Charles C. Murray of Kent County all those parts of Friendship and Hazard
lying in Queen Anne's County to secure a promissory note for $1,060.00
that he accepted from Charles C. Murray, said note to be negotiable at
the House of McQuban [spelling ?] in the Town of Millington. ...
Also those tracts located
in Queen Anne's County called Spry's
Chance and Friendship, containing forty nine acres which Joshua
Massey purchased from Ebenezer T. Massey by deed dated September 9,
1817. This mortgage deed to become null and void if Charles C. Murray
makes good on his promissory note of $1,060.00 on or before December 7,
1840. |
JT:2:668 |
1839/12/27 |
Queen
Anne's County: Ebenezer T.
Massey of Kent County in the State of Maryland buys for $703.37 from
Israel Griffith of the City of Baltimore the mortgage deed of William
R. Massey of Spring Hill in the State of Mississippi recorded in Liber
JT No.2 Folio 235, 236 & 237 and dated September 4, 1837. By
this deed Ebenezer T. Massey becomes the owner of any and all payments
made by William R. Massey to satisfy the referenced deed of mortgage.
|
JT:3:198 |
1841/01/13 |
| Queen
Anne's County: Ebenezer T.
Massey and wife Emily Ann of Kent County in the State of Maryland sell
for $125.00 to Samuel Stinson of Queen Anne's County a portion of the
tract called Benton's
Luck. |
JT:3:533 |
1842/05/07 |
Queen
Anne's County: James H.
Massey & wife Anna E. Massey of Batesville, Independence County, in
the State of Arkansas, sell for $3,000.00 to Ebenezer T. Massey of Kent
County in the State of Maryland parts of the following tracts inherited
by James H. Massey from his father Joshua W. Massey, including
Friendship, Maynors Chance, Bath,
Collins
Range, Spry's
Adventure, and several others lying in Queen Anne's County as well
as several in Kent County, as well as all the share and interest of
James H. Massey in all the slaves and other personal estate of his
aforesaid late father. Witnesses: Thomas Johnson, B.A. Massey, and
Thomas Johnson, President Judge of the Third Judicial Circuit of the
State of Arkansas; Charles St. Pelham is Clerk of the Circuit Court for
the County of Independence in the State of Arkansas.
|
JT:3:579 |
1842/07/09 |
| Kent
County: Ebenezer T. Massey
of Kent County in the State of Maryland buys for $2,145.00 from George
N. Newnam and his wife Mary Newnam, both of Queen Anne's County, the
plantation lying in Kent County ... being composed of and ma[??] of the tracts
called Angels Lot, Angels Rest and Spring Garden. |
JNG:9:495 |
1844/09/17 |
| Kent
County: Ebenezer T. Massey
and his wife Emily A. Massey of Kent County in the State of Maryland
sell for $2,000.00 to Eleanor F. Massey, also of Kent County, the lot
in the Town of Millington, Kent County, known as the Parker property,
which is located on the North side of the street running from the
center of said town, Westwardly to Wells' warehouse, and which was
purchased by the said Ebenezer T. Massey from Mary Thomas, and which
contains eight acres. |
JNG:10:58 |
1845/02/10 |
Queen
Anne's County: A commission
is set up to divide the lands of the late Joshua W. Massey of Queen
Anne's County in the State of Maryland and is made up of the following
men: Jesse Knock, William H. Foster, Arthur E. Sudler, James Giant
[maybe Skint], and Edward Coppage, all of Queen Anne's County.
The lands at issue are: Friendship, Maynors Chance, Irish Farm etc. The
heirs of Joshua W. Massey are: William R. Massey, James H. Massey,
Marietta I. Dobbs (wife of Alexander Dobbs, formerly Marietta Massey)
Joseph A. Massey, Thomas C. Massey, Benjamin A. Massey and Pamela L.
Massey, his widow. Thomas C. Massey, who was a minor, initiated
the formation of this commission in order properly to divide the lands
of Joshua W. Massey.
Accordingly, the commission
set about evaluating the lands as follows:
Tilghman's
Friendship: 342 acres at $15.00 per acre - $5,130.00;
Lot No.2, called Bath:
317+ acres at $10.00 per acre - $3,178.45;
Lot No.3, a.k.a. Bath:
140 acres at $10.00 per acre - $1,400.00; and
Lot No.4, called Seegar's
Purchase: 122 acres at $10 - $1,220.00.
They thereupon scheduled and advertised at public sale at Dixon's
Tavern in Queen Anne's County, all of the above lands, excepting the
dower right of Pamela L. Massey. Ebenezer T. Massey subsequently
became the highest bidder for Friendship; James [illegible surname] of
Lots No.'s 2 & 3; Lot No.4, being mainly woodland, was divided
among Lots No.'s 1, 2 & 3 [... unintelligible negotiations
following...]. |
JT:4:498 |
1845/08/19 |
| Queen
Anne's County: A
commission described in Liber
JT No.4 Folio 498 evaluated and then sold at public auction the
lands of the late Joshua W. Massey of Queen Anne's County in the State
of Maryland. The present deed describes the sale and lands conveyed to
James Merrick, also of Queen Anne's County. However, William R.
Massey has by now alienated all his individual interest in his father's
estate to Mssrs. [Perma] and Fisher of the City of Baltimore; James H.
Massey has alienated all his interest to Ebenezer T. Massey of Kent
County; and Thomas E. Massey is still a minor. The present
commission is composed of the same men as the above-referenced previous
commission and evaluated the lands at issue the same as before, except
for the lands sold as part of Seegar's
Purchase in the above referenced deed. |
JT:5:186 |
1847/02/09 |
Queen
Anne's County: Ebenezer T.
Massey of Kent County in the State of Maryland buys for $412.00 from
Francis R. Cacy of Queen Anne's County a fifty acre tract in Queen
Anne's County, the metes and bounds of which are [unintelligible ...]
Witnesses: Justices of the Peace E.E. Massey and Wesley Inman.
|
JT:5:200 |
1847/03/10 |
Queen
Anne's County: Pamela L.
Massey, Joshua A. Massey, and [] his wife, all of the County of Sumples
in the State of Alabama, Benjamin A. Massey and Anna Massey, his wife,
Thomas E. Massey and Sara Massey, his wife, and Alexander F. Dobbs and
Henrietta Dobbs, his wife, all of the State of Ohio, sell for $3,000.00
to Ebenezer T. Massey of Kent County in the State of Maryland the
tracts called Maynor's Chance, Tilghman's Friendship, and Collins
Range, formerly the property of Joshua W. Massey, deceased, who was
the husband of Pamela L. Massey and the father of Joshua A. Massey,
Benjamin A. Massey, Thomas E. Massey, and Henrietta I. Dobbs, his
children and heirs at law. ... And
also, all that part of Collins Range ... containing twenty acres,
assigned to Pamela L. Massey for life as her dower.
|
JT:5:345 |
1847/12/07 |
Queen
Anne's County: Ebenezer T.
Massey of Kent County in the State of Maryland sells for $150.00 to
William Anderson of Queen Anne's County, a town lot in an
unintelligible place. Witnesses: Justices of the Peace E.E.Massey and
John N. Woodall.
|
JT:5:448 |
1848/05/09 |
| Queen
Anne's County: Ebenezer T.
Massey of Kent County in the State of Maryland buys for $400.00 from
John McCormick and wife Jane Ann McCormick of Alexandria in the State
of Virginia,a portion of the lands devised to William R. Massey which
he subsequently sold to Henry Bruce, and thence from Bruce to John
McCormick, which lands are Maynor's Chance, Tilghman's Friendship, Collins
Range and Harriss's
Rambles. |
JT:5:449 |
1848/05/09 |
| Queen
Anne's County: A commission
described in Liber
JT No.4 Folio 498 evaluated and then sold at public auction the
lands of the late Joshua W. Massey of Queen Anne's County in the State
of Maryland. The present deed describes the sale and lands conveyed to
Ebenezer T. Massey of Kent County in the State of Maryland. As before,
the commissioners are Jesse Knock of Kent County, and William H. Foster
and Arthur E. Sudler of Queen Anne's County. The commission was
established by petition from Benjamin A. Massey to dispose fairly the
lands of Joshua W. Massey, now among them the tracts called Tilghman's
Friendship, Pryor's [illegible], and Maynor's Chance. ... Part of Tilghman's Friendship... containing
twenty acres ... was assigned to Pamela L. Massey as part of her dower. |
JT:5:493 |
1848/05/29 |
| Queen
Anne's County: Ebenezer T.
Massey of Kent County in the State of Maryland in order to secure a
bond for $1,001.00 to Clinton [illegible surname] accepts the mortgage
of John C. Keene of Queen Anne's County for a tract called Bridgewater,
lying in Queen Anne's County containing two hundred and fourteen acres
as well as a long list of farm animals and equipment, personal and
household items, said sale to become null and void if the terms of the
bond are satisfied. |
JT:6:99 |
1849/06/12 |
| Queen
Anne's County: Ebenezer T.
Massey of Kent County in the State of Maryland buys for $500.00 from
Edward F. Rasin and his wife Ann a portion of the tract called
[illegible name] lying in Queen Anne's County within the following
metes and bounds: Beginning at the South West end of the divisional
line between Thomas M. Blackiston's land and the land of Ebenezer T.
Massey, and running thence with the same Thomas M. Blackiston's land
South sixty six [degrees] West thirty five and 84/100 perches, then
South nineteen and a quarter [degrees] West one hundred and twenty
three and 76/100 perches to his lasnd, which formerly belonged to the
heirs of Joshua W. Massey, now owned by Ebenezer T. Massey, then with
that land the following corners and distances: South forty one and a
half [degrees] East seventy three perches, then North seven and a
quarter [degrees] East one hundred and eighty eight and 76/100 perches
to the aforesaid beginnning, containing forty three and an eighth acres. |
JT:6:348 |
1850/05/30 |
| Queen
Anne's County: Ebenezer T.
Massey and wife of Kent County in the State of Maryland sell for
$500.00 to Edward F. Rasin, also of Kent County, the portion of
Maynor's Chance lying in Queen Anne's County. |
JT:6:425 |
1850/09/14 |
| Kent
County: Ebenezer T. Massey
and his wife Emily Ann Massey, both of Kent County in the State of
Maryland, sell for $35.00 to William Thompson (Tomson), also of Kent
County, all that tract lying in Kent County called Newnam's Purchase,
containing twenty acres, formerly owned by Casparis Meginniss, and now
adjoining the lands of Nathaniel Meginnniss, Senior, W. Boyer, James
Spear, and others. |
JR:1:371 |
1851/02/18 |
Queen
Anne's County: Ebenezer T.
Massey of Kent County in the State of Maryland sells for $2,000.00 to
Mary E. Massey of Queen Anne's County, the Queen Anne's County tracts
called (1) London Bridge, that lies on the South side of Chester River
and partly adjoining on the East side of Sand Town, being part of his
large tract of land severally called London Bridge and Halls
Harbour ... and also
(2) the lot lying in Sand Town that was purchased by the said Ebenezer
T. Massey from the late Isaac Jackson, also of Queen Anne's County, on
October 26, 1832, as appeared by a Chancery deed given to Ebenezer T.
Massey by the late Isaac Hines of Kent County dated October 5, 1833.
|
JP:1:17 |
1852/02/03 |
| Queen
Anne's County: Ebenezer T. Massey of Kent County and Charles
McCollister of Queen Anne's County, both in the State of Maryland, buy
by endorsing a $500.00 note, negotiable at the Farmers Bank of Easton,
dated June 11, 1852, and payable six months after that date, from
John C. Hurn for the tract called Bridgewater
as security and to indemnify the said Ebenezer T. Massey and Charles McCollister
against loss or liability. Bridgewater, lying in Queen Anne's County in
the First Election District, was formerly owned by James Stant,
deceased, and adjoins the lands of Thomas H. Blackiston and others and
contains six hundred and fourteen acres, it being the same land that
was purchased from Clinton Cook, trustee for the sale of the real
estate of James Stuart, deceased, by deed dated March 31, 1852, and
recorded in Liber
JT No.1, Folio 76. If John C. Hurn does truly pay to the Farmers
Bank of Easton the amount of the note and interest thereon on or before
the date of its due, then the present conveyance shall be void and of
no effect. |
JP:1:134 |
1852/06/14 |
| Kent
County: Doctor Charles H.B.
Massey of Kent County in the State of Maryland buys for $300.00 from
John E. Cole, also of Kent County, the lot lying in Masseys Cross Roads
in Kent County which was devised to John E. Cole by the Last Will and
Testament of the late John Cole to Abraham Cole for life and after his
death to the said John E. Cole and his heirs, bounded on two sides by
the main or public roads and on the other two sides by the lands of the
late Ebenezer T. Massey and containing one acre. |
JFG:2:219 |
1854/08/10 |
| Queen
Anne's County: Emily A.
Massey and Elijah Birdsall sell for $125.00 to John W.E. Sudler a lot
of ground with all improvements, lying in Queen Anne's County on the
Main Road leading from Sudlersville to Millington and being part of the
farm owned by the late Ebenezer Massey of Kent County in the State of
Maryland and adjoining the said farm and the lands of John W.E. Sudler
and being known recently as the Brick Kiln Corner. |
MB:2:379 |
1863/07/14 |
| Kent
County: Charles H.B. Massey
of Kent County in the State of Maryland buys for $1,000.00 from George
B. Money and his wife Mary W. Money, both of Delaware City in New
Castle County in the State of Delaware, all that messuage and parcel
located in Kent County that is contained within the following metes and
bounds: Bounded on the West by the public road leading from the Head of
Sassafras River to Millington, on the South by the public road leading
from Galena to Smyrna, and on the North and East by land of the
devisees of Ebenezer T. Massey, containing one acre, it being the same
premises described as No.2 in a deed executed by Charles E. Marchant
and his wife Hannah Matilda Marchant dated March 9, 1864, and also in a
similar deed of conveyance executed by Patrick McConaughr and his wife
Marian A.E. McConaughr, David Robertson and his wife Emma E. Robertson,
and Joseph E. Money and his wife Susan Frances Money, dated April 26,
1864. Dr. Massey paid with a note for $500.00, payable in sixty days
and another for $500.00, payable in ninety days. |
JKH:4:350 |
1864/07/21 |
| Queen
Anne's County: Thomas G.H.
Massey of Kent County in the State of Maryland sells for $5,000.00 to
Charles H.B. Massey, also of Kent County, the 362 acre tract called
Tilghmans Friendship, lying in Queen Anne's County between Sudlersville
and Millington, it being the same tract which was conveyed to the late
Ebenezer T. Massey by Jesse Knock, W.H. Foster, and Arthur E. Sudler,
commissioners appointed to divide and sell the real estate of Joshua W.
Massey, by deed dated June 3, 1848, and recorded in Liber
JT No.5, Folio 493; another part
of Tilghmans Friendship lying in Queen Anne's County, containing twenty
acres, which was conveyed to Ebenezer T. Massey by Pamela L. Massey and
Joshua A. Massey and others by deed dated September 18, 1841, and
recorded in Liber
JT No.5, Folio 345; and also a portion of the tract called Woodbridge
Corrected (designated in the Last Will and Testament of Ebenezer T.
Massey as the Cacy Purchase) lying in Queen Anne's County, containing
fifty acres, which had been conveyed to Ebenezer T. Massey by Francis
C. Cacy by deed dated September 13, 1846, and recorded in Liber JP
No.5, Folio 200, all of which lands were devised by the late Ebenezer
T. Massey to his wife Emily Ann Massey for and during her natural life
and after her death to his son, the said Thomas G.H. Massey, in fee
simple. |
SED:1:404 |
1864/12/01 |
| Queen
Anne's County: Charles H.B. Massey and his wife Mary A.O.
Massey, both of Kent County in the State of Maryland, sell for
$5,000.00 to Thomas G.H. Massey of Westmoreland County in the State of
Virginia all that tract called Tilghmans Friendship, lying in Queen
Anne's County between Sudlersville and Millington, containing three
hundred and sixty two acres, it being the same tract which was conveyed
to the late Ebenezer T. Massey by Isaac Knock, W.H. Foster and Arthur
B. Sudler, commissioners appointed to divide or sell the real estate of
Joshua W. Massey by deed dated June 3, 1848, and recorded in Liber
JT No.5, Folio 493; also [another] part of Tilghmans Friendship
containing twenty acres which was conveyed to Ebenezer T. Massey by
Pamela L. Massey and Joshua A. Massey and others by deed dated
September 8, 1841, [probably what is recorded in Liber
JT
No.5, Folio 345 - GL,III, ed.] and also the tract, part
of Woodbridge
Corrected, designated in the Last Will and Testament of Ebenezer T.
Massey as the Cacy Purchase, containing fifty acres, it being the same
tract conveyed to Ebenezer T. Massey by Francis H. Cacy by deed dated
September 13, 1846, [and recorded in Liber
JT No.5, Folio 200] all of which tracts were devised by
the late Ebenezer T. Massey to his wife Emily Ann Massey for and during
her natural life, and after her death to his son, the said Thomas G.H.
Massey in fee simple by his Last Will and Testament, and which were
conveyed by the said Thomas G.H. Massey to the said Charles H.B. Massey
by deed dated December 19, 1864, recorded in Liber
SED No.1, Folio 404. |
SED:2:347 |
1866/06/14 |
| Kent
County: Emily Ann Massey of
the City of Philadelphia in the State of Pennsylvania and B.H.C. Massey
and his wife Bersheba Massey of Kent County in the State of Maryland
sell for $4,194.90 to Joseph A. Wickes, also of Kent County, by order
of Judge John M. Robinson of the Circuit Court for Kent County in the
case of Augusta Wickes vs. Augusta M. Wickes and others for the sale of
the real estate. [Joseph A. Wickes] was [authorized] to loan for five
years the purchase money amounting to four thousand one hundred and
ninety for dollars and ninety cents to such person as he might deem
proper, the interest to be paid annually and the sum or sums thus
loaned by him to be secured by judgment on mortgage on real estate
situated in Kent County, as by this deed he has so done to B.H.C.
Massey and Emily Ann Massey. The mortgaged land lies in the First
Election District of Kent County on the West side of the public road
leading from Masseys Cross Roads to the head of Sassafras River and is
contained within the following metes and bounds: Beginning at a large
stone on the West side of said road, which stone is also the beginning
of the lands of R.B.M. Massey, and running thence with said road North
twenty seven degrees East eight perches, thence with said road North
seventeen degrees East eighty two and 32/100 perches to a stone, thence
with said road North eighteen and a half degrees East forty nine and
20/100 perches to a stone, thence North forty six and three quarter
degrees West fifty eight and 24/100 perches with the private road
leading to the farm of the late Hannah Greenwood, thence with said
private road South forty four degrees West [thirty] six perches, thence
with said private road North sixty one and a half degrees West five and
48/100 perches, thence West four hundred and eighty six and 40/100
perches to a stone, thence South three quarter degree East ninety six
perches to a stone, thence South sixty five degrees East two hundred
and fifty one and 36/100 perches, thence South eighty eight and a half
degrees East two hundred and eighty perches to the beginning,
containing four hundred and five acres, it being the tract which was
devised by the late Ebenezer T. Massey to his widow, the said Emily Ann
Massey, for and during her natural life, and after her death to the
said B.H.C. Massey in fee. This conveyance is to become void and of no
effect if the said loan is repaid satisfactorily under the terms stated
within the mortgage. |
JKH:6:216 |
1867/03/28 |
|
James H. Massey
|
County
|
Lib.:No.:Fol.
|
Date
|
| Queen
Anne's County: James H.
Massey of Spring Hill in the State of Mississippi, trading as the firm
of Massey & Wapon, is indebted $3,668.19 to the house of trade of
Israel Griffith upon two promissory orders, one dated at Baltimore
August 21, 1837 between Massey & Wapon and Ebenezer T. Massey, the
other between Massey & Wapon and Israel Griffith for
$1,168.19. In order to secure the payment of these debts and to
hold Ebenezer T. Massey harmless, James H. Massey sells for $5.00 to
Israel Griffith and Ebenezer T. Massey one undivided fifth part being
the share and interest of the said James H. Massey which he inherited
from Joshua W. Massey, late of Queen Anne's County, father to James H.
Massey, consisting of the Queen Anne's County tracts called Friendship,
Bath,
Collins
Range, Maynor's Chance, Spry's
Adventure and a tract located in Kent County, together with all the
slaves of his late father, whether divided or undivided. The present
conveyance is to take place only if James H. Massey fails to satisfy
the enumerated debts; if he does make good, the sale becomes null and
void and of no effect. Ebenezer T. Massey has the option to pay some of
the debt himself and thereby to share in the ownership of the lands
should James H. Massey default. |
JT:2:235 |
1837/09/19 |
Queen
Anne's County: James H.
Massey & wife Anna E. Massey of Batesville, Independence County, in
the State of Arkansas, sell for $3,000.00 to Ebenezer T. Massey of Kent
County in the State of Maryland parts of the following tracts inherited
by James H. Massey from his father Joshua W. Massey, including
Friendship, Maynors Chance, Bath,
Collins
Range, Spry's
Adventure, and several others lying in Queen Anne's County as well
as several in Kent County, as well as all the share and interest of
James H. Massey in all the slaves and other personal estate of his
aforesaid late father. Witnesses: Thomas Johnson, B.A. Massey, and
Thomas Johnson, President Judge of the Third Judicial Circuit of the
State of Arkansas; Charles St. Pelham is Clerk of the Circuit Court for
the County of Independence in the State of Arkansas.
|
JT:3:579 |
1842/07/09 |
Queen
Anne's County: A commission
is set up to divide the lands of the late Joshua W. Massey of Queen
Anne's County in the State of Maryland and is made up of the following
men: Jesse Knock, William H. Foster, Arthur E. Sudler, James Giant
[maybe Skint], and Edward Coppage, all of Queen Anne's County.
The lands at issue are: Friendship, Maynors Chance, Irish Farm etc. The
heirs of Joshua W. Massey are: William R. Massey, James H. Massey,
Marietta I. Dobbs (wife of Alexander Dobbs, formerly Marietta Massey)
Joseph A. Massey, Thomas C. Massey, Benjamin A. Massey and Pamela L.
Massey, his widow. Thomas C. Massey, who was a minor, initiated
the formation of this commission in order properly to divide the lands
of Joshua W. Massey. ...
They thereupon scheduled
and advertised at public sale at Dixon's Tavern in Queen Anne's County,
all of the above lands, excepting the dower right of Pamela L.
Massey. Ebenezer T. Massey subsequently became the highest bidder
for Friendship; James [illegible surname] of Lots No.'s 2 & 3; Lot
No.4, being mainly woodland, was divided among Lots No.'s 1, 2 & 3
[... unintelligible negotiations following...]. |
JT:4:498 |
1845/08/19 |
| Queen
Anne's County: A commission
described in Liber
JT No.4 Folio 498 evaluated and then sold at public auction the
lands of the late Joshua W. Massey of Queen Anne's County in the State
of Maryland. The present deed describes the sale and lands conveyed to
James Merrick, also of Queen Anne's County. However, William R.
Massey has by now alienated all his individual interest in his father's
estate to Mssrs. [Perma] and Fisher of the City of Baltimore; James H.
Massey has alienated all his interest to Ebenezer T. Massey of Kent
County; and Thomas E. Massey is still a minor. The present
commission is composed of the same men as the above-referenced previous
commission and evaluated the lands at issue the same as before, except
for the lands sold as part of Seegar's
Purchase in the above referenced deed. |
JT:5:186 |
1847/02/09 |
|
John T. Massey
|
County:
|
Lib.:No.:Fol.
|
Date
|
| Kent
County: John T. Massey, son
of the late Thomas O.D. Massey, both of Kent County in the State of
Maryland, buys for $36.00 from Daniel Jones, also of Kent County, a lot
of ground in George Town Cross Roads ... Previously, Joseph Moffett was appointed
trustee by Kent County Court to dispose of the real estate of Josiah
Massey, father of the said Thomas O.D. Massey, and sold a lot of ground
in George Town Cross Roads to the said Daniel Jones for $36.06, which
was duly recorded in a written agreement between Daniel Jones and
Josiah Massey during Josiah Massey's lifetime, then intended to be
conveyed from Daniel Jones through Thomas O.D. Massey to his son John
T. Massey herein named. The present deed completes this transaction. |
JFG:4:454 |
1857/05/28 |
| Kent
County: John T. Massey of
Kent County in the State of Maryland sells for $40.00 to John
Pennington, also of Kent County, the Shop and lot in Galena, Kent
County ... being the same
Shop and lot conveyed by Daniel Jones to the said John T. Massey by
deed dated April 27, 1857, and recorded in Liber
JFG No.4, Folio 454. |
JKH:3:306 |
1862/10/28 |
|
Joshua Massey
|
County
|
Lib.:No.:Fol.
|
Date
|
Queen
Anne's County: At James
Massey's request, a commission is hereby set up to commemorate the
memory of the bounds of these lands, all lying in Queen Anne's County
in the State of Maryland: part of Friendship, part of Spry's
Friendship, part of Massey's
Part of Friendship Corrected, all of Spry's
Chance, and part of Hazard
which descended to James Massey and Joshua Massey by the death of their
father, James Massey, who died intestate. The commission was composed
of Benjamin Roberts, Thomas Seegar, George Jackson, Samuel Rochester
and James Ronberry, gentlemen of Queen Anne's County, but George
Jackson did not participate. The commissioners appointed Cornelius
Comegys as surveyor and John Comegys and David Spry as chain
carriers. After their survey, which encompassed the contiguous
tracts totaling 459 acres, a division line was chosen such that the
land lying Northward of the division line would go to James Massey and
be adjacent to lands he already owns, and lands to the Southward of the
division line would go to Joshua Massey as of November 29, 1797. [Note:
For Joshua Massey, read "the original Joshua Massey;" for Joshua
Massey, Jr., read "Joshua Massey, Senior." The ensuing Joshua Massey,
Junior, is younger yet - GL,III, ed.]
|
RT:3:314 |
1797/10/28 |
| Queen
Anne's County: James
Massey, farmer of Queen Annee's County in the State of Maryland sells
for £1,275 to Hemsley Massey, also farmer of Queen Anne's County, parts
of the following tracts totaling 345 acres: Massey's
Part of Friendship Corrected, Spry's
Chance, and Spry's Friendship ... a division line formerly
established between James Massey, deceased, and William Massey, also
deceased, by the Will of their late father, James Massey, ... a
division line between the said James Massey and Joshua Massey, then by
and with the said division line ... to another stone standing at the
other end of the aforesaid division line between the lands of James
Massey and Joshua Massey... |
STW:4:445 |
1798/06/12 |
| Queen
Anne's County: James Massey
and Joshua Massey, of Queen Anne's County in the State of Maryland, buy
for 5/- from Abraham Falconar of Baltimore, decreed by court order as
trustee of the estate of William Falconar, late of Queen Anne's County,
William Falconar's portions of the tracts called Harris's
Hazard (22-1/2 acres), Friendship and Tilghman's Friendship (180
acres), and Spry's
Chance (14 acres) all lying in Queen Anne's County. Abraham had at
first conveyed these lands at public sale to James Massey, father to
the present James and Joshua Massey, but James the elder died intestate
on December 1, 1795, leaving James Massey, Junior, and Joshua Massey as
his sole heirs. The present deed completes the transfer of the
ownership of the lands described above to James and Joshua Massey as
tenants in common and the proceeds (which were paid but are not stated
in this deed) to the heirs of William Falconar, who are listed:
Peregrine Falconar, John Falconar, William Falconar, Joshua Falconar,
and Ann Falconar. |
STW:4:558 |
1799/02/01 |
| Queen
Anne's County: Hemsley
Massey of Queen Anne's County in Maryland for 1,500 pounds buys a 399.5
acre tract of land (including the 46.75 acres bought in 1801) called Collins
Range or Collins His Range in Queen Anne's Countyn from Daniel Toas
Massey, farmer ... Witnesses:
William Lindsay, William B. Hackett, William & Joshua Massey, and
Hemsley Massey. |
STW:6:493 |
1804/10/04 |
| Queen
Anne's County: Joshua
Massey of Queen Anne's County in the State of Maryland buys for £50
from Mary Sands, also of Queen Anne's County, a slave called George,
about ten years old. |
STW:7:349 |
1805/09/10 |
| Queen
Anne's County: Joshua
Massey and Sarah Massey, his wife, both of Queen Anne's County in the
State of Maryland, sell for £5 to William Matthews, also of Queen
Anne's County, several tracts in Queen Anne's County which Sarah McWay
Massey inherited from James McWay: Bath;
Bath
Meadows; Jennings Beginning ...; Shipton Hill; Harris
Rambles or Ralph's
Adventure; and Harris Rambled. Ralphs Adventure was obtained by
James McWay from Thomas Ralph and contains 7-7/8 acres. Harris Rambles
was also obtained by James McWay from Thomas Ralph, but by way of John
Fogwell as guardian to the heirs of Thomas Ralph. |
STW:8:220 |
1806/06/10 |
| Queen
Anne's County: Joshua
Massey and Sarah Massey, his wife, both of Queen Anne's County in the
State of Maryland, sell for £5 to William Matthews, also of Queen
Anne's County, several tracts in Queen Anne's County which Sarah McWay
Massey inherited from James McWay: Bath;
Bath
Meadows; Jennings Beginning ...; Shipton Hill; Harris
Rambles or Ralph's
Adventure; and Harris Rambled. Ralphs Adventure was obtained by
James McWay from Thomas Ralph and contains 7-7/8 acres. Harris Rambles
was also obtained by James McWay from Thomas Ralph, but by way of John
Fogwell as guardian to the heirs of Thomas Ralph. |
STW:8:39 |
1806/09/16 |
| Queen
Anne's County: Joshua
Massey of Queen Anne's County in the State of Maryland buys for £112
10/- from Benjamin Sands a male slave named Ben, about thirty six years
old. |
STW:8:290 |
1806/10/08 |
| Queen
nne's County: Joshua Massey
of Queen Anne's County in the State of Maryland buys for the highest
bid of £162 at public sale from Scott Solomon, former Sheriff of Queen
Anne's County, the two separate tracts called Tom's
Adventure and Hemisses
[Rambles ?]. The present deed transfers the properties' titles to
Joshua Massey upon the further payment of 5/- by Joshua to the
Sheriff. The properties had been seized by a writ of fieri facias
from the Court of Appeals of the Eastern Shore, dated May 1, 1806, to
settle a debt of £337 4/- 8p and 629 pounds of tobacco owed to the
estate of James McWay, whose executrix is Sarah McWay, by William
Walker. |
STW:8:365 |
1807/01/04 |
| Queen
Anne's County: Joshua
Massey and his wife, Sarah McWay Massey of Queen Anne's County in
Maryland purchase for $1 a 22-1/2 acre portion of the the 69-3/4 acre
tract called Harriss's
Rambles from the estate of Thomas Ralph. The legalities of the
court case leading up to the sale are too difficult for me [GL,III,
ed.] to read and then transcribe accurately. |
STW:9:44 |
1807/05/30 |
| Queen
Anne's County: Joshua
Massey of Queen Anne's County in the State of Maryland buys for £5 from
William Matthews, also of Queen Anne's County, several tracts of land
lying in Queen Anne's County, including Bath;
Bath
Meadows; Jennys Beginning; [illegible] Shipton Hill; and Harris
Rambles, the last two being conveyed to William Matthews by Joshua
Massey by deed
dated May 14, 1807 (recorded September 16, 1807). |
STW:8:38 |
1807/09/13 |
| Queen
Anne's County: Joshua
Massey of Queen Anne's County in the State of Maryland sells for 5/- to
Ann Massey Elliott, wife of Samuel Elliott, all of the lands which his
father, Hemsley Massey, deceased, left to Joshua's sister Ann Massey,
now Ann Elliott, also of Queen Anne's County. Hemsley Massey left to
Joshua Massey and to his legitimate children all the lands on which he
resided as well as half of the land which he purchased from Philip Reed
and from Daniel T. Massey, that being the half next to the land of
George Palmer. Joshua now wishes to comply with the Will of his
father, Hemsley Massey, by conveying to Ann Massey Elliott her share of
the aforesaid lands, being all that part of Friendship, all of Masseys
Part of Friendship Corrected, two parts of a tract called Bridgewater,
and all of the tract called Nasby's
Addition. |
STW:10:267 |
1809/03/02 |
| Queen
Anne's County: Joshua
Massey of Queen Anne's County in the State of Maryland buys for
$1,600.00 from Richard Covington, also of Queen Anne's County, an
85-3/4 acre portion of the tract called Chance, lying in Queen Anne's
County. |
STW:10:320 |
1809/06/09 |
| Queen
Anne's County: Joshua
Massey of Queen Anne's County in the State of Maryland buys for $452.50
from Joseph Sudler, also of Queen Anne's County, a 22-5/8 acre portion
of the tract called Skidmore, lying in Queen Anne's County. |
STW:10:343 |
1809/08/08 |
| Queen
Anne's County: Joshua
Massey of Queen Anne's County buys for $5 the 500 acre tract of land
called Bridgewater
from John Massey as collateral for the sum of £250 owed by John to
Joshua, which sale becomes null and void if John Massey makes good on
his debt. |
STW:9:192
|
1809/10/27 |
| Queen
Anne's County: Joshua
Massey of Queen Anne's County in the State of Maryland manumits the
following slaves: Jacob and George, both to be free from the
present date; Benjamin to be free in five years from the first day of
January, eighteen hundred and eleven; Daniel to be free in three years
from the first day of January, eighteen hundred and eleven; Little
George to be free in twelve years from the first day of January,
eighteen hundred and eleven; Nat to be free in fifteen years from the
first day of January, eighteen hundred and eleven; Ephraim to be free
in twenty years from the first day of January, eighteen hundred and
eleven; Sarah to be free from the present date; Henrietta to be free in
twenty years from the first day of January, eighteen hundred and
eleven; and Nancy to be free in twenty one years from the first day of
January, eighteen hundred and eleven. |
STW:9:295 |
1810/06/29 |
| Queen
Anne's County: Joshua
Massey of Queen Anne's County in the State of Maryland buys for $102.00
from James Pryor, also of Queen Anne's County, a portion of the tract
called Harriss's
Rambles, ... containing
seventeen acres. |
STW:9:492 |
1811/04/09 |
| Queen
Anne's County: Joshua
Massey, John Williamson, and James Pryor, all of Queen Anne's County in
the State of Maryland, sell for $25.00 to Rebecca Thomas, [free ?]
black, the slave woman named Alice. |
STW:9:494 |
1811/04/09 |
| Queen
Anne's County: Joshua
Massey of Queen Anne's County in the State of Maryland buys for $250.00
from William Pell Ridgeway, Sheriff of Queen Anne's County, the slave
called Wat or Walter, formerly the property of Nicholas Massey and his
wife, who are the administrators of the estate of the late John Roberts
of Queen Anne's County, whose assets were sold at public auction to
satisfy the estate's debts. |
JB:1:144 |
1811/11/06 |
| Kent
County: Joshua Massey of
Kent County in the State of Maryland buys for $800.00 from Ann Sturgis
and Rachel Sturgis three town lots in Georgetown, No's 27 through 29,
that they inherited from Joseph Sturgis, deceased, and that Joseph
Sturgis had bought from Nathaniel Tilghman. |
BC:8:520 |
1815/03/25 |
Queen
Anne's County: Joshua
Massey of Queen Anne's County in the State of Maryland buys for $100.00
from Joseph W. Walls, also of Queen Anne's County, all that part of a
tract of land called Bath
... containing six and a half acres.
|
TM:5:157 |
1816/03/11 |
| Queen
Anne's County: Joshua
Massey of Queen Anne's County in the State of Maryland buys for
$4,000.00 from James Pryor, also of Queen Anne's County, over 175 acres
of land, comprising all that part of the tract called Bath,
lying in Queen Anne's County ... Also, all the remaining part of the tract
called Harriss's
Rambles, lying in Queen Anne's County, containing thirty acres, it
being part of the said land conveyed by John Fogwell to James Massey,
and thereafter deeded by James Massey to his niece Ann Mary Pryor. |
TM:5:158 |
1816/03/11 |
Queen
Anne's County: James Massey
and Joshua Massey, Junior, of Queen Anne's County in the State of
Maryland, in order to correct the error
of a commission set up to partition the lands of James Massey and
Joshua Massey, Junior, sell for 5/- to Joshua Massey, Senior, also of
Queen Anne's County, 229-1/2 acres, consisting of all of the tract
called Massey's
Part of Friendship Corrected, part of [Spry's
?] Chance, and part of Spry's Friendship, contained within the
following metes and bounds: Beginning at a stone marked with the letter
A which stands near the road leading from [illegible] Tavern to Wills's
[illegible] on Chester River in Queen Anne's County, and also the
beginning of a tract sold by James Massey, Senior to the present James
Massey on the fourteenth of May, seventeen hundred and ninety three and
recorded in Liber
STW No.2 Folio 405 & 406, ... one end of the division line between the
lands of James Massey and Joshua Massey, Junior as fixed on by the
commission aforesaid, thence by and with the said division line East
eight degrees North one hundred and forty seven perches to another
stone standing at the other end of the aforesaid division line between
the lands of James Massey and Joshua Massey, Junior ...
|
TM:1:216 |
1817/02/06 |
| Queen
Anne's County: Ebenezer T.
Massey and wife Emily Ann Massey of Kent County in the State of
Maryland sell for $3,000.00 to Samuel O. Meginniss of Queen Anne's
County all that tract called Collins
Range, containing 400 acres, excepting 24 acres willed by Hemsley
Massey, late of Queen Anne's County to Joshua Massey, also deceased and
late of Queen Anne's County, and a few acres sold by Ebenezer T. Massey
and wife to Winbert [illegible surname], which land descended to
Ebenezer T. Massey and wife Emily Ann Massey by the death of her father
Hemsley Massey, late of Queen Anne's County, all lands lying in the
upper part of Queen Anne's County whereon John Jones now lives, which
was purchased by Hemsley Massey from Daniel T. Massey, late of Queen
Anne's County,and is bounded on the North by the lands of John
Rochester's heirs, on the East by the lands of Samuel Cacy, on the
South by the lands of Joshua W. Massey's heirs, and on the West by the
[two letters] Lyon Branch, containing about three hundred and seventy
acres. |
JT:1:139 |
1834/07/15 |
| Queen
Anne's County: Joshua I.
Massey & wife Harriet M. Massey of Queen Anne's County in the State
of Maryland sell for $2,600.00 to Charles C. Murray of Kent County
229-1/2 acres of that part of the tract called Hazard
... Also two other tracts
in Queen Anne's County called Spry's
Chance and Friendship, containing forty nine acres which
Joshua Massey purchased from Ebenezer T. Massey by a deed dated
September 6, 1827. |
JT:2:667 |
1839/12/27 |
Queen
Anne's County: James Massey
of Queen Anne's County in the State of Maryland buys for $5.00 from
Charles C. Murray of Kent County all those parts of Friendship and Hazard
lying in Queen Anne's County to secure a promissory note for $1,060.00
that he accepted from Charles C. Murray, said note to be negotiable at
the House of McQuban [spelling ?] in the Town of Millington. ...
thence with a straight line
to the first place of beginning, containing two hundred and twenty nine
and a half acres, which lands were purchased by Joshua Massey from
James Massey by deed dated August 7, 1817. Also those tracts
located in Queen Anne's County called Spry's
Chance and Friendship, containing forty nine acres which Joshua
Massey purchased from Ebenezer T. Massey by deed dated September 9,
1817. This mortgage deed to become null and void if Charles C. Murray
makes good on his promissory note of $1,060.00 on or before December 7,
1840. |
JT:2:668 |
1839/12/27 |
|
Joshua Massey,
Jr.
|
County
|
Lib.:No.:Fol.
|
Date
|
Queen
Anne's County: James Massey
and Joshua Massey, Junior, of Queen Anne's County in the State of
Maryland, in order to correct the error
of a commission set up to partition the lands of James Massey and
Joshua Massey, Junior, sell for 5/- to Joshua Massey, Senior, also of
Queen Anne's County, 229-1/2 acres, consisting of all of the tract
called Massey's
Part of Friendship Corrected, part of [Spry's
?] Chance, and part of Spry's Friendship ... to a stone at one end of the division line
between the lands of James Massey and Joshua Massey, Junior as fixed on
by the commission aforesaid, thence by and with the said division line
East eight degrees North one hundred and forty seven perches to another
stone standing at the other end of the aforesaid division line between
the lands of James Massey and Joshua Massey, Junior ...
|
TM:1:216 |
1817/02/06 |
| Queen
Anne's County: James
Massey, son of James Massey, deceased, of Queen Anne's County in the
State of Maryland sells for 5/- to Joshua Massey, Junior, all of
Friendship and parts of Hazard, 229-1/2 acres out of the 449 acres of
land in Queen Anne's County, comprising parts of the following tracts:
Friendship, Spry's Friendship, Massey's
Part of Friendship Corrected, Spry's
Chance, and Hazard
that the brothers inherited from their late father, James Massey, who
died intestate. James Massey later petitioned the Court to create a
commission to partition these lands; on November 3, 1797, this
commission issued to Mssrs. Benjamin Roberts, Thomas Seegar, George
Jackson, Samuel Rochester, and James Roseberry to enter upon the
premises and execute their duties, which they completed on May 17,
1798. James Massey is to receive all that part lying to the Northward
of the division line as being contiguous to his other lands; and Joshua
Massey, Junior, is to receive the lands lying to the Southward of the
division line as laid out in Liber
RT No.3, Folio 314, 315, & 316 of the land records of Queen
Anne's County. Subsequently this decision was appealed to the Court of
Appeals for the Eastern Shore in the May Term of 1815 and found
wanting, leaving Joshua Massey's title to his lands defective; the
present deed corrects this situation. Joshua Massey's share of his
inheritance now is to consist of all of Friendship and part of Hazard. |
TM:1:197 |
1817/04/04 |
Queen
Anne's County: Joshua W.
Massey of Queen Anne's County in the State of Maryland sells for
$4,464.00 to Edward Sudler, also of Queen Anne's County, 186 acres,
consisting of parts of the tracts called Sheppard's
Forrest, [Spry's
?] Chance, and Sledmore, lying in the upper part of Queen Anne's
County within the following metes and bounds: Beginning at a white oak
tree in the field and to be the beginning tree of Sheppard's Forrest
belonging to the aforesaid Joshua W. Massey, ... to the divisional line between Joshua
Massey, Junior, and Remy Covington's heirs ...
|
TM:2:84 |
1819/04/05 |
|
Joseph Massey
|
County
|
Lib.:No.:Fol.
|
Date
|
| Kent
County: Joseph Massey and
Ebenezer Massey patent of The Slippe, a 6.5 acre parcel (formerly owned
by Joshua Vansant, deceased) lying adjacent to Massey's Venture and
Addition to Fair Dealing, and The Exchange, all in Kent County,
Maryland. |
BC&GS:20:367 |
1764/08/28 |
| Kent
County: William Barnes
sells for 10/- the 285 acre tract, part of Partnership, to his sisters
Sarah Barnes Massey (wife of Nathan Massey, Portsmough, Virginia),
Priscilla Barnes Green (wife of Cuthbert Green of Kent County in
Maryland), Rebecca Barnes Massey (wife of Joseph Massey of Kent County
in Maryland), and Jane Barnes of Kent County, Maryland.
Partnership lies near the head of Chester River in Kent County on the
South side of seven hundred acres of land, part of the aforesaid tract
sold Nathaniel Hynson, it being that part of the aforesaid tract [that]
was sold by Andrew Hamilton to Gilbert Falconar for the quantity of two
hundred and eighty five acres of land, which in turn was sold by
Abraham Falconar to William Barnes, Senior, who bequeathed it to his
son, William Barnes, Junior. Daniel Massey of Kent County was
appointed lawful attorney to complete the sale to the four sisters. |
DD:1:15 |
1764/11/17 |
| Kent
County: Patent of Masseys
Venture Resurveyed, Joseph Massey and Ebenezer Massey, 254 1/2 Acres. |
BC&GS:33:41 |
1765/06/11 |
| Kent
County: Joseph Massey,
farmer of Kent County, buys for £200 a 100 acre tract called
Partnership from Catharine Massey, spinster, and Nicholas Massey,
farmer, and Henrietta, his wife, also of Kent County. |
DD:2:157 |
1765/10/09 |
| Kent
County: Ebenezer Massey,
farmer of Kent County, buys for £100 the tracts called The Exchange,
The Slip Alongside Massey's Venture, and Massey's Venture from Joseph
Massey, also a farmer of Kent county. |
DD:2:337 |
1766/08/19 |
Kent
County: Mary Massey, et al,
widow of Daniel Massey, inherits the tract called Partnership, 110
acres of which are to be divided amongst the heirs: John Massey (100
acres) his four grandsons Daniel Toas Massey, Stephen Massey, Joseph
Massey, and John Massey, (two thirds of the unstated remainder) and his
10 granddaughters (one acre each), from Mary Massey to receive the last
one third of the remainder from among the four grandsons' lands.
Commissioners: Robert Maxwell, James Pearce, and Nathaniel Comegys
under a bond of 10,000 pounds of specie. Mary Massey is the widow of
Daniel Massey, decedent, whose Will is being settled. Guardians
for the underage heirs: Abraham Falconar, guardian to Joseph Massey,
son of Joseph; Josiah Massey, guardian to John Massey, son of said
Joseph. Note: the acreage of Partnership is nowhere mentioned,
and the survey of the entire tract is not included in this
document. Adjoining tracts include Henry Clark's land and Holdman
Johnston's heirs' land. ... Whereas
Daniel Massey, late of Kent County, deceased, did in his last Will
amongst other things devise a part of a tract of land lying and being
in Kent County, Maryland and on the West side of Chester Road and South
side of the Chapel Road between his son John Massey and ten of his
granddaughters and four of his grandsons, sons of his son Joseph
Massey, deceased viz.: Daniel Toas Massey, Stephen Massey, Joseph
Massey, and John Massey ... we
hereby certify the lot #1 fell to Stephen Massey, lot #2 to Daniel Toas
Massey, lot #3 to Joseph Massey and the lot #4 to John Massey; and we
are of opinion that Mary Massey, widow of the aforesaid Daniel, should
have her thirds of the land belonging and laid out as above for the
four grandsons laid out for her ...
|
EF:6:37 |
1781/03/19 |
| Kent
County: Daniel Toas Massey
of Kent County in Maryland for 1,200 pounds in specie buys a
parcel, part of Partnership, from Stephen Massey, son of Joseph Massey,
heir to Daniel Massey, grandfather of Daniel Toas Massey. |
EF:6:64 |
1781/10/04 |
| Kent
County: Joseph Massey
(farmer and brother of Daniel Toas Massey) of Queen Anne's County in
Maryland for 635 pounds buys a 375 acre portion of Partnership in Kent
County from Daniel Toas Massey, farmer, and wife Sarah, who thereby
relinquishes her right of dower. |
EF:7:482 |
1789/09/04 |
| Kent
County: Joseph Massey (as
partner and together with the late Abraham [?] Massey), merchant of
Kent County in the State of Maryland, sells, for (shortening a long
story involving a debt and Susannah Warder Parkes Humpany, merchant of
the City of Philadelphia and Jeremiah Warder) £348 5/- 5-1/2p, a 200
acre part of the tract called Partnership which Joseph inherited from
Daniel Massey, deceased, unto John Warder of the City of Philadelphia. |
EF:7:532 |
1790/02/23 |
Kent
County: Daniel Toas Massey,
farmer of Kent County in the State of Maryland sells for £3,018 15/- a
431-1/4 acre portion of Partnership to Abraham Woodland. ... then on the division line between the said
Daniel Toas Massey and a certain Joseph Massey, the following three
courses, to wit: East two hundred and forty perches to a stone standing
at the end of the third line of a parcel of land which was conveyed by
the said Daniel Toas Massey to the above named Joseph Massey ...
|
BC:4:36 |
1794/03/17 |
| Queen
Anne's County: Sarah
Massey, Anna Massey, and Elizabeth Massey (daughters of Joseph Massey
and his late wife Elizabeth (Hall)) as tenants in common buy for 5
shillings from Abraham Falconar and wife Sarah (Hall) a 500-acre tract
called Robotham's
Park (inherited by Sarah Hall and Elzabeth Hall from John Seal). |
STW:5:439 |
1801/10/31 |
Kent
County: Ann Sturgis and
Rachel Sturgis of Kent County in the State of Maryland sell for $300.00
to William S. Cooper, also of Kent County, all the 12 acre tract called
Partnership, lying in Kent County, which was sold under the direction
of the High Court of Chancery of Maryland by John Davidson, trustee,
for the sale of lands in Kent County which were given to Ann Sturgis
and Rachel Sturgis and which are contained within the following metes
and bounds: Beginning at a stone fixed at the West end of a division
line between Daniel Toas Massey and Joseph Massey ...
|
BC:8:540 |
1816/04/08 |
Kent
County: Josiah Massey and
his wife Mary I. Massey, both of Kent County in the State of Maryland,
sell for $25.00 to John V. Solaway, also of Kent County, all the tract
called Little Forest, lying in the upper part of Kent County and
adjoining the lands of Joseph Massey, Hannah W.W. Ireland, and said
Josiah Massey ...
|
JR:1:444 |
1851/05/16 |
|
Joseph A. Massey
|
County
|
Lib.:No.:Fol.
|
Date
|
| Queen
Anne's County: A commission
is set up to divide the lands of the late Joshua W. Massey of Queen
Anne's County in the State of Maryland and is made up of the following
men: Jesse Knock, William H. Foster, Arthur E. Sudler, James Giant
[maybe Skint], and Edward Coppage, all of Queen Anne's County.
The lands at issue are: Friendship, Maynors Chance, Irish Farm etc. The
heirs of Joshua W. Massey are: William R. Massey, James H. Massey,
Marietta I. Dobbs (wife of Alexander Dobbs, formerly Marietta Massey)
Joseph A. Massey, Thomas C. Massey, Benjamin A. Massey and Pamela L.
Massey, his widow. Thomas C. Massey, who was a minor, initiated
the formation of this commission in order properly to divide the lands
of Joshua W. Massey. |
JT:4:498 |
1845/08/19 |
|
Joshua Albert
Massey
|
County
|
Lib.:No.:Fol.
|
Date
|
Queen
Anne's County: Pamela L. Massey, Joshua A. Massey, and [] his wife, all
of the County of Sumples in the State of Alabama, Benjamin A. Massey
and Anna Massey, his wife, Thomas E. Massey and Sara Massey, his wife,
and Alexander F. Dobbs and Henrietta Dobbs, his wife, all of the State
of Ohio, sell for $3,000.00 to Ebenezer T. Massey of Kent County in the
State of Maryland the tracts called Maynor's Chance, Tilghman's
Friendship, and Collins
Range, formerly the property of Joshua W. Massey, deceased, who was
the husband of Pamela L. Massey and the father of Joshua A. Massey,
Benjamin A. Massey, Thomas E. Massey, and Henrietta I. Dobbs, his
children and heirs at law. ... And
also, all that part of Collins Range ... containing twenty acres,
assigned to Pamela L. Massey for life as her dower.
|
JT:5:345 |
1847/12/07
|
| Queen
Anne's County: Thomas G.H.
Massey of Kent County in the State of Maryland sells for $5,000.00 to
Charles H.B. Massey, also of Kent County, the 362 acre tract called
Tilghmans Friendship, lying in Queen Anne's County between Sudlersville
and Millington, it being the same tract which was conveyed to the late
Ebenezer T. Massey by Jesse Knock, W.H. Foster, and Arthur E. Sudler,
commissioners appointed to divide and sell the real estate of Joshua W.
Massey, by deed dated June 3, 1848, and recorded in Liber
JT No.5, Folio 493; another part
of Tilghmans Friendship lying in Queen Anne's County, containing twenty
acres, which was conveyed to Ebenezer T. Massey by Pamela L. Massey and
Joshua A. Massey and others by deed dated September 18, 1841, and
recorded in Liber
JT No.5, Folio 345; and also a portion of the tract called Woodbridge
Corrected (designated in the Last Will and Testament of Ebenezer T.
Massey as the Cacy Purchase) lying in Queen Anne's County, containing
fifty acres, which had been conveyed to Ebenezer T. Massey by Francis
C. Cacy by deed dated September 13, 1846, and recorded in Liber JP
No.5, Folio 200, all of which lands were devised by the late Ebenezer
T. Massey to his wife Emily Ann Massey for and during her natural life
and after her death to his son, the said Thomas G.H. Massey, in fee
simple. |
SED:1:404
|
1864/12/01
|
| Queen
Anne's County: Charles H.B. Massey and his wife Mary A.O.
Massey, both of Kent County in the State of Maryland, sell for
$5,000.00 to Thomas G.H. Massey of Westmoreland County in the State of
Virginia all that tract called Tilghmans Friendship, lying in Queen
Anne's County between Sudlersville and Millington, containing three
hundred and sixty two acres, it being the same tract which was conveyed
to the late Ebenezer T. Massey by Isaac Knock, W.H. Foster and Arthur
B. Sudler, commissioners appointed to divide or sell the real estate of
Joshua W. Massey by deed dated June 3, 1848, and recorded in Liber
JT No.5, Folio 493; also [another] part of Tilghmans Friendship
containing twenty acres which was conveyed to Ebenezer T. Massey by
Pamela L. Massey and Joshua A. Massey and others by deed dated
September 8, 1841, [probably what is recorded in Liber
JT
No.5, Folio 345 - GL,III, ed.] and also the tract, part
of Woodbridge
Corrected, designated in the Last Will and Testament of Ebenezer T.
Massey as the Cacy Purchase, containing fifty acres, it being the same
tract conveyed to Ebenezer T. Massey by Francis H. Cacy by deed dated
September 13, 1846, [and recorded in Liber
JT No.5, Folio 200] all of which tracts were devised by
the late Ebenezer T. Massey to his wife Emily Ann Massey for and during
her natural life, and after her death to his son, the said Thomas G.H.
Massey in fee simple by his Last Will and Testament, and which were
conveyed by the said Thomas G.H. Massey to the said Charles H.B. Massey
by deed dated December 19, 1864, recorded in Liber
SED No.1, Folio 404. |
SED:2:347 |
1866/06/14
|
|
Juliet Massey
and
Sarah Ann Massey
|
County
|
Lib.:No.:Fol.
|
Date
|
| Queen
Anne's County: Joshua
Massey of Queen Anne's County in the State of Maryland completes the
sale of the tract called Bridgewater
to Juliet Massey and Sarah Ann Massey, the only children and heirs of
John Massey, deceased. John Massey had purchased Bridgewater from
Joshua Massey by a mortgage deed dated October 27, 1809 for for £250;
the mortgage to Joshua Massey has now been fully satisfied and so he is
conveying Bridgewater to Juliet and Sarah Ann Massey for $1.00. |
JB:2:112 |
1813/06/26 |
|
Thomas C. Massey
|
County
|
Lib.:No.:Fol.
|
Date
|
| Queen
Anne's County: A commission
is set up to divide the lands of the late Joshua W. Massey of Queen
Anne's County in the State of Maryland and is made up of the following
men: Jesse Knock, William H. Foster, Arthur E. Sudler, James Giant
[maybe Skint], and Edward Coppage, all of Queen Anne's County.
The lands at issue are: Friendship, Maynors Chance, Irish Farm etc. The
heirs of Joshua W. Massey are: William R. Massey, James H. Massey,
Marietta I. Dobbs (wife of Alexander Dobbs, formerly Marietta Massey)
Joseph A. Massey, Thomas C. Massey, Benjamin A. Massey; and Pamela L.
Massey, his widow. Thomas C. Massey, who was a minor, initiated
the formation of this commission in order properly to divide the lands
of Joshua W. Massey. |
JT:4:498 |
1845/08/19
|
|
Elisha Massey
& Abednago Massey
|
County
|
Lib.:No.:Fol.
|
Date
|
| Kent
County: Abednago Massey and
Elisha Massey of Kent County in the State of Maryland buy for £900 a
combined 308-1/2 acres of the tracts called The
Hope and Myers
Luck from Joseph Parsons, also of Kent County. |
EF:7:49 |
1786/06/22 |
| Kent
County: Joseph Parsons of
(Kent) County in Maryland buys for 900 pounds a 308.5 acre parcel
called Hope Resurveyed and Mier's
(Myers) Luck from Abednago Massey and Elisha Massey. |
EF:7:210 |
1787/09/27
|
Kent
County: James Woodland of
Kent County in Maryland for 5 shillings buys a 250 acre parcel called
Smith's Park from Elisha Massy (Massey) and wife Sarah Massey, widow of
James Hynson, who inherited the land from her late husband.
|
BC:4:240 |
1795/06/09 |
| Kent
County: The bankrupt Elisha
Massey of Kent County in the State of Maryland sells for 5/- everything
except the clothes on his back to Cornelius Comegys, appointed as
Trustee on June 22, 1796, to receive the property of Mr. Massey for the
benefit of his creditors. |
BC:4:526 |
1796/07/18 |
|
Elizabeth
Massey, dau. of Samuel Massey
|
County
|
Lib.:No.:Fol.
|
Date
|
| Kent
County: Tripartite
indenture between Sarah Massey (widow of Samuel Massey, deceased tallow
chandler, of Philadelphia, and represented by James Harris, Esquire),
Simon Williams (gentleman of Philadelphia), and Henry Evans (merchant
of Philadelphia). Land parcel: Bright
Helmstone in Kent County, 1,000 acres. One-third willed by Samuel
Massey to wife Sarah, the other two-thirds going to their children
Sarah, Daniel, Wight, Elizabeth and Mary Massey. Simon Williams
acting as trustee-arbiter to oversee the dividing of the lands between
the heirs. Sarah sells all 1,000 acres for 100 pounds to Henry
Evans. The parcel originally was patented by James Kendall of
Bright Hemston in England, which he left to his wife Elizabeth Kendall
and their daughter Elizabeth (who later died); Elizabeth (nee
Brocklesby) the mother willed the land to her brother Edward
Brocklesby, who in turn willed it to his brother Thomas Brocklesby, who
sold it to Samuel Massey in October 1710 (Baltimore County, Liber
No.JS, Folio 62). |
JS:W:224 |
1721/11/16
|
|
Elizabeth Massey
Inry
|
County
|
Lib.:No.:Fol.
|
Date
|
| Kent
County: Lewis Inry and
Elizabeth (nee Massey) Inry of Kent County in Maryland buy for an
additional 16 pounds, 2 shillings and 6 pence (over 68 pounds, 5
shillings, 6 pence already paid) for a 0.5 acre parcel called
Rich Leville (which Simon Wilmer once sold to Benjamin Dawes) from the
heirs of Thomas Gilpin (Sarah Massey had sold the land to Thomas
Gilpin, who died before the transaction could be completed; afterwards
Sarah Massey also died intestate, having born John Massey, who was lost
at sea, and the aforesaid Elizabeth Massey, sole surviving heir) i.e.,
Lydia Gilpin, Thomas Fisher, Samuel Rowland Fisher, Miers Fisher, and
Joshua Gilpin, collectively represented by William Tilghman, Esquire. |
EF:7:527 |
1790/01/04 |
|
Elizabeth
Massey, dau. of Moses Massey
|
County
|
Lib.:No.:Fol.
|
Date
|
Queen
Anne's County: To Parmela
Massey Peters: a horse called Ball; To Samuel Massey: a horse called
Liberty, one bed & furniture, one brindle cow, one sow & six
pigs, one iron pot, one pewter dish & two ewes; to Hemsley Massey:
one horse called Triall, one bed & furniture, one cow called Star,
one sow and five pigs, one iron pot, one pewter dish, two ewes, one
desk, one case of bottles, one slave woman named Silve; to Elizabeth
Massey: one slave girl named Tempe, one horse called Sorrel, one (new)
side saddle, one red & white cow, one brown heifer, one iron pot,
one pewter dish, one red chest, one bed & furniture, two ewes, one
sow, one white table; to Levi Massey: one colt called Kistor, one bed
& furniture, one iron pot, one pewter dish, two ewes, one sow &
five pigs, six pewter plates, one cow called Lill, one brown chest; to
Rachel Lacharse: one cow called Blacko, one horse called Pall, the colt
the mare is big with excepted, one small pewter dish, one ewe, one hog,
one linen wheel and groat to the aforesaid names above mentioned.
Household stuff, implements, chattels to me belonging & which I may
justly claim as in right, my own whether alive or dead as well
moveables or things immoveable, both real & personal in whose hands
custody or possession so ever they be or whosoever the same or any of
them or any part of them can or may now hereafter be found remaining or
being, as well in the messuage or tenement with the appurtenances
wherein I now dwell as in any place or messuage whatsoever ...
Witnesses: James Massey, William Massey, and Charles Simmond.
|
RT:L:445 |
1781/10/26 |
|
Elizabeth
Massey, dau. of Joseph Massey
|
County
|
Lib.:No.:Fol.
|
Date
|
| Queen
Anne's County: Sarah
Massey, Anna Massey, and Elizabeth Massey (daughters of Joseph Massey
and his late wife Elizabeth (Hall)) as tenants in common buy for 5
shillings from Abraham Falconar and wife Sarah (Hall) a 500-acre tract
called Robotham's
Park (inherited by Sarah Hall and Elizabeth Hall from John Seal). |
STW:5:439 |
1801/10/31 |
| Queen
Anne's County: Sarah Massey
of New Castle County in the State of Delaware, Anna Massey and
Elizabeth Massey, both of the City of Baltimore in the State of
Maryland sell for $6,555.00 to Samuel Cacy, of Queen Anne's County,
part of the tract called Massey's
[spelling?] Addition. ... to
the end of the first line of that part of Massey's Addition heretofore
conveyed by Charles Basset to Jonathan Hall ... Excepted is the burial ground now enclosed
with poling, the dimensions of which are forty two feet by twenty two
feet, where Sarah Massey, Anna Massey, and Elizabeth Massey and their
heirs are to have free access forever to bury their dead, should they
incline to do so, and for no other use whatsoever. |
TM:2:45 |
1819/02/09 |
| Queen
Anne's County: Sarah
Massey, a.k.a. Sarah Falconar, of New Castle County in the State of
Delaware and Anna Massey and Elizabeth Massey, both of the City of
Baltimore in the State of Maryland sell for $6,585.00 to Joel Smith, of
Queen Anne's County, 329-1/4 acres of that part of Robotham's
Park |
TM:2:82 |
1819/04/05 |
|
Elizabeth
Massey, dau. of Eleazer Massey; mar. Benjamin Massey
|
County
|
Lib.:No.:Fol.
|
Date
|
| Queen
Anne's County: Sarah Massey
and Elizabeth Massey (daughters of Eleazer Massey) of Queen Anne's
County in Maryland for 5 shillings buy a tract of land called Reviving
Springs, purchased by Eleazer Massey from Samuel Ridgeway and wife
Littilia. |
CD:2:334 |
1787/09/08 |
| Queen
Anne's County: Benjamin
Massey and his wife Elizabeth of Kent County in the State of Maryland
sell for £583 6/- 8p (and for
6,200 pounds of tobacco ?) to
Benoni Harris, also of Kent County, the tract called Reviving
Springs which Eleazer Massey, father [-in-law - GL,III, ed.] of the
aforesaid Benjamin Massey, purchased from Samuel Ridgeway, Esquire,
deceased, and his wife Littilia on September 8, 1787, then granted by
deed to his [i.e., Eleazer's - GL,III, ed.] two daughters Sarah Massey
and Elizabeth Massey, being the undivided estate of said Sarah Massey
(now Sarah Harris, the wife of Benoni Harris) and the aforesaid
Elizabeth Massey. |
STW:3:491 |
1796/02/14 |
| Queen
Anne's County: Sarah Massey
and Elizabeth Massey (daughters of Eleazer Massey) of Queen Anne's
County in Maryland for 5 shillings buy a tract of land called Reviving
Springs, purchased by Eleazer Massey from Samuel Ridgeway and wife
Littilia. |
CD:2:334 |
1796/09/08
|
| Queen
Anne's County: Benjamin
Massey and his wife Elizabeth of Kent County in the State of Maryland
sell for £583 16/- 8p to Benoni Harris, of Kent County in the State of
Delaware, part of a tract called Reviving
Springs, lying in Queen Anne's County;see Liber
STW No.2 Folio 491 & 492. |
STW:5:272 |
1800/05/01 |
| Kent
County: Benjamin Massey and
wife Elizabeth Massey [nee Massey - GL,III, ed.] of Kent County in the
State of Maryland sells a 100 acre tract for £700 to Frederick Boyer,
also of Kent County. |
TW:3:263 |
1805/08/26 |
| Kent
County: Elijah Massey,
Benjamin Massey and his wife Elizabeth Massey of Kent County in the
State of Maryland sell a 54-1/2 acre portion and a 2-1/4 acre portion
of Angels Rest for £552 to Casparis Meginniss, also of Kent County. ...
Also a part of
Angels Rest: ... containing two and one quarter acres. |
TW:3:274 |
1805/09/05 |
| Queen
Anne's County: Benoni
Harris and his wife Sarah Massey Harris of Kent County in the State of
Maryland sell for £1,125 to Samuel Cacy of Queen Anne's County, Sarah
Harris's undivided moiety in 179-1/4 acres of the land which Sarah
Massey Harris with her sister Elizabeth Massey, wife of Benjamin Massey
of Kent County, inherited from their father, Eleazer Massey, deceased,
called Reviving
Springs, lying in Queen Anne's County. |
STW:7:373 |
1805/10/28
|
| Kent
County: Benjamin Massey and
his wife Elizabeth Massey of Kent County in the State of Maryland sells
a 54-1/2 acre portion of Angels Lot for £552 10/- to Casparis Meginniss. |
BC:5:207 |
1808/03/08 |
| Kent
County: Benjamin Massey and
wife Elizabeth of Kent County and State of Maryland sell for $1,065 a
142 acre tract of land called Goose
Haven (previously purchased by Benjamin from Elizabeth {nee
Comegys} Vanhorn, to whom it was deeded by her father William Comegys,
and adjoining one parcel owned by John Nicoret and another parcel owned
by Arthur Wheatley) to James Meredith, once of Queen Anne's County and
now of Kent County. |
BC:8:52 |
1814/01/11 |
| Kent
County: Benjamin Massey
and wife Elizabeth of Kent County in the State of Maryland sell for
$350.00 the 64-5/8 acre parcel called Pinacle to William Anderson, also
of Kent County. |
WS:2:352 |
1820/02/09 |
| Kent
County: Benjamin Massy
(Massey) and wife Elizabeth of Kent County in the State of Maryland
sell for $94.00 to Solomon Simons, also of Kent County, a portion of
[The] Adventure which the said Benjamin Massey had purchased from David
Simans, Junior. |
TW:4:476 |
1824/09/20 |
|
Emily Ann
Massey, dau. of [Thomas] Hemsley Massey, mar. Ebenezer Thomas Massey
|
County
|
Lib.:No.:Fol.
|
Date
|
| Kent
County: 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. |
TW:4:179 |
1822/08/08
|
Queen
Anne's County: Ebenezer T.
Massey and Emily Ann Massey of Kent County in Maryland sell for
$4,600.00 all or parts of the following tracts of land, all lying in
Queen Anne's County: Maynor's Chance (150 acres), Spry's
Adventure (76-1/4 acres), Massey's
Meadows (3+ acres), and Widow's
Lott (2 acres), following the directive of an act of the Assembly
passed February 15, 1822, to Joshua W. Massey of Queen Anne's
County. These tracts abut each other and several other tracts:
Dunganon, Shepherd's
Forest, Shephard's [illegible] Addition, and Massey's Part of
Friendship Corrected and a tract of land called Maynor's Chance. ...
Also a tract or part of a
tract of land called Spry's Adventure ... containing seventy six acres
and one fourth of an acre of land ... Also a tract of land called
Massey's Meadows ... containing three acres [illegible] and 33 perches
... Also one other tract of land called Widow's
Lott ... containing two acres. |
TM:3:50 |
1822/09/18 |
| Queen
Anne's County: Ebenezer T.
Massey and wife Emily Ann Massey of Kent County in the State of
Maryland sell for $3,000.00 to Samuel O. Meginniss of Queen Anne's
County all that tract called Collins
Range, containing 400 acres, excepting 24 acres willed by Hemsley
Massey, late of Queen Anne's County to Joshua Massey, also deceased and
late of Queen Anne's County, and a few acres sold by Ebenezer T. Massey
and wife to Winbert [illegible surname], which land descended to
Ebenezer T. Massey and wife Emily Ann Massey by the death of her father
[Thomas] Hemsley Massey, late of Queen Anne's County, all lands lying
in the upper part of Queen Anne's County whereon John Jones now lives,
which was purchased by [Thomas ? - GL,III, ed.] Hemsley Massey from
Daniel T. Massey, late of Queen Anne's County, and is bounded on the
North by the lands of John Rochester's heirs, on the East by the lands
of Samuel Cacy, on the South by the lands of Joshua W. Massey's heirs,
and on the West by the [two letters] Lyon Branch, containing about
three hundred and seventy acres. |
JT:1:139 |
1834/07/15 |
| Kent
County: Emily Ann Massey of
Kent County in the State of Maryland buys, for $4,500.00 from Samuel C.
Meginniss and wife Ann Meginniss of Queen Anne's County, the tracts
called Meginniss
Part of Angels Rest Resurveyed, Angels Lot, Smiths
(Smyths) Park, and 20 acres of woodland in Spring Garden and
Partnership. The lands were devised to Samuel C. Meginniss and
Hannah Riley by Casparis Meginniss, late of Kent County by his Will
dated February 9, 1828. |
JNG:3:436 |
1834/09/17 |
| Queen
Anne's County: Ebenezer T.
Massey and his wife, formerly Emily Ann Massey, formerly of Kent County
in the State of Maryland sells for $150.00 to Christopher Garthand of
Queen Anne's County, all of the tract called Shedmore (or Skidmore)
that Emily Ann Massey inherited from her father, [Thomas] Hemsley
Massey, deceased, which is described in the deed dated January
14, 1807, and recorded in Liber
STW, [No.8], Folio 411, 412 & 413. |
JT:2:217 |
1837/05/08 |
| Kent
County: Ebenezer T. Massey
and wife Emily Ann Massey of Kent County in the State of Maryland sell
for $600.00 to Joseph Dodson of Cecil County a two acre tract located
near Massey's Cross Roads that was sold to Ebenezer T. Massey by decree
of the Chancery Court of Maryland by John B. Eccleston as trustee for
the disposal of the real estate of Thomas Numbus, deceased, for the
payment of his debts. The land was formerly owned by Mary Newman; and
after her death it was purchased by Thomas Numbus. |
JNG:6:67 |
1839/01/04 |
| Queen
Anne's County: Ebenezer T.
Massey and wife Emily Ann Massey of Kent County in the State of
Maryland sell for $125.00 to Samuel Stinson of Queen Anne's County a
portion of the tract called Benton's
Luck. |
JT:3:533 |
1842/05/07 |
| Queen
Anne's County: Ebenezer T.
Massey and wife Emily Ann Massey of Kent County in the State of
Maryland sell for $500.00 to Edward F. Rasin, also of Kent County, the
portion of Maynor's Chance lying in Queen Anne's County. |
JT:6:425 |
1850/09/14 |
| Kent
County: Ebenezer T. Massey
and his wife Emily Ann Massey, both of Kent County in the State of
Maryland, sell for $35.00 to William Thompson (Tomson), also of Kent
County, all that tract lying in Kent County called Newnam's Purchase,
containing twenty acres, formerly owned by Casparis Meginniss, and now
adjoining the lands of Nathaniel Meginnniss, Senior, W. Boyer, James
Spear, and others. |
JR:1:371 |
1851/02/18 |
| Queen
Anne's County: Thomas G.H.
Massey of Kent County in the State of Maryland sells for $5,000.00 to
Charles H.B. Massey, also of Kent County, the 362 acre tract called
Tilghmans Friendship, lying in Queen Anne's County between Sudlersville
and Millington, it being the same tract which was conveyed to the late
Ebenezer T. Massey by Jesse Knock, W.H. Foster, and Arthur E. Sudler,
commissioners appointed to divide and sell the real estate of Joshua W.
Massey, by deed dated June 3, 1848, and recorded in Liber
JT No.5, Folio 493; another part
of Tilghmans Friendship lying in Queen Anne's County, containing twenty
acres, which was conveyed to Ebenezer T. Massey by Pamela L. Massey and
Joshua A. Massey and others by deed dated September 18, 1841, and
recorded in Liber
JT No.5, Folio 345; and also a portion of the tract called Woodbridge
Corrected (designated in the Last Will and Testament of Ebenezer T.
Massey as the Cacy Purchase) lying in Queen Anne's County, containing
fifty acres, which had been conveyed to Ebenezer T. Massey by Francis
C. Cacy by deed dated September 13, 1846, and recorded in Liber JP
No.5, Folio 200, all of which lands were devised by the late Ebenezer
T. Massey to his wife Emily Ann Massey for and during her natural life
and after her death to his son, the said Thomas G.H. Massey, in fee
simple. |
SED:1:404 |
1864/12/01 |
| Queen
Anne's County: Charles H.B. Massey and his wife Mary A.O.
Massey, both of Kent County in the State of Maryland, sell for
$5,000.00 to Thomas G.H. Massey of Westmoreland County in the State of
Virginia all that tract called Tilghmans Friendship, lying in Queen
Anne's County between Sudlersville and Millington, containing three
hundred and sixty two acres, it being the same tract which was conveyed
to the late Ebenezer T. Massey by Isaac Knock, W.H. Foster and Arthur
B. Sudler, commissioners appointed to divide or sell the real estate of
Joshua W. Massey by deed dated June 3, 1848, and recorded in Liber
JT No.5, Folio 493; also [another] part of Tilghmans Friendship
containing twenty acres which was conveyed to Ebenezer T. Massey by
Pamela L. Massey and Joshua A. Massey and others by deed dated
September 8, 1841, [probably what is recorded in Liber
JT
No.5, Folio 345 - GL,III, ed.] and also the tract, part
of Woodbridge
Corrected, designated in the Last Will and Testament of Ebenezer T.
Massey as the Cacy Purchase, containing fifty acres, it being the same
tract conveyed to Ebenezer T. Massey by Francis H. Cacy by deed dated
September 13, 1846, [and recorded in Liber
JT No.5, Folio 200] all of which tracts were devised by
the late Ebenezer T. Massey to his wife Emily Ann Massey for and during
her natural life, and after her death to his son, the said Thomas G.H.
Massey in fee simple by his Last Will and Testament, and which were
conveyed by the said Thomas G.H. Massey to the said Charles H.B. Massey
by deed dated December 19, 1864, recorded in Liber
SED No.1, Folio 404. |
SED:2:347
|
1866/06/14 |
| Kent
County: Emily Ann Massey of
the City of Philadelphia in the State of Pennsylvania and B.H.C. Massey
and his wife Bersheba Massey of Kent County in the State of Maryland
sell for $4,194.90 to Joseph A. Wickes, also of Kent County, by order
of Judge John M. Robinson of the Circuit Court for Kent County in the
case of Augusta Wickes vs. Augusta M. Wickes and others for the sale of
the real estate. [Joseph A. Wickes] was [authorized] to loan for five
years the purchase money amounting to four thousand one hundred and
ninety for dollars and ninety cents to such person as he might deem
proper, the interest to be paid annually and the sum or sums thus
loaned by him to be secured by judgment on mortgage on real estate
situated in Kent County, as by this deed he has so done to B.H.C.
Massey and Emily Ann Massey. The mortgaged land lies in the First
Election District of Kent County on the West side of the public road
leading from Masseys Cross Roads to the head of Sassafras River ... it being the tract which was devised by the
late Ebenezer T. Massey to his widow, the said Emily Ann Massey, for
and during her natural life, and after her death to the said B.H.C.
Massey in fee. This conveyance is to become void and of no effect if
the said loan is repaid satisfactorily under the terms stated within
the mortgage. |
JKH:6:216 |
1867/03/28 |
|
Francis Massey
|
County
|
Lib.:No.:Fol.
|
Date
|
| Kent
County: Elijah Massey, out
of love and affection for Pamela Lambden Massey (daughter of Benjamin
Massey) and Francis Massey (daughter of James Massey) gives the 229
acre tract called Angels Rest (Elijah's present home) to Pamela and
Francis as tenants in common with the proviso that, should Pamela die
unmarried before the age of 21, her share of Angels Rest should go to
Carolyn Massey (another daughter of Benjamin Massey). Angels Rest
was acquired by Elijah from Thomas Witherspoon and adjoins lands of
Casparis Meginniss and Benjamin Massey. |
BC:6:476 |
1811/07/16 |
| Kent
County: Francis Massey
Seegar, wife of Arthur Seegar, (both of Queen Anne's County in the
State of Maryland) having reached the age of twenty one, completes the
sale of her
share of Angels Rest that had been willed to her and her sister Pamela
Lambden Massey by Elijah Massey when Francis was a minor, on April
16, 1811. Benjamin Massey of Kent County is the buyer, at
$3,000.00. According to the referenced
deed, Pamela Lambden Massey is the daughter of Benjamin Massey and
Francis Massey is the daughter of James Massey. |
WS:3:474 |
1821/12/29 |
|
Mary E. Massey
and George Ann C. Massey
|
County
|
Lib.:No.:Fol.
|
Date
|
| Queen
Anne's County: Ebenezer T.
Massey of Kent County in the State of Maryland sells for $2,000.00 to
Mary E. Massey of Queen Anne's County, the Queen Anne's County tracts
called (1) London Bridge, that lies on the South side of Chester River
and partly adjoining on the East side of Sand Town, being part of his
large tract of land severally called London Bridge and Halls
Harbour ... and also
(2) the lot lying in Sand Town that was purchased by the said Ebenezer
T. Massey from the late Isaac Jackson, also of Queen Anne's County, on
October 26, 1832, as appeared by a Chancery deed given to Ebenezer T.
Massey by the late Isaac Hines of Kent County dated October 5, 1833. |
JP:1:17 |
1852/02/03 |
| Queen
Anne's County: Elijah E. Massey and wife Sallie W. Massey of
Queen Anne's County in the State of Maryland, Samuel W. Comegys and his
wife George Ann C. [nee Massey] Comegys, Amelia Octavia Tilden, Jesse
K. Hines and his wife Emily A. Hines of Kent County together sell for
$1,000.00 to Sarah A.S. Waters, also of Queen Anne's County,
the parcel known as the Jackson Lot, located in Sand Town in Queen
Anne's County, and which is bounded on the North by the lots belonging
to Mr. Henry H, Hammond and Thomas [illegible], on the West by Chester
River and the meadow lot belonging to Thomas A. Cook, on the South by
the lots of Thomas J. [illegible] and the heirs of James [illegible],
and on the East by the Main Street or road of said Village, it having
belonged to Mary E. Massey and from whom it descended in fee to George
Ann C. [nee Massey] Comegys, wife of Samuel W. Comegys, Emily A. Hines,
wife of Jesse K. Hines, Amelia Octavia Tilden, and Sallie W. Massey,
[who are] her children and heirs at law, and in which her husband
Elijah E. Massey is entitled to a life estate [and] is tenant by the
courtesy to have an to hold the said lot, which contains about three
acres, unto Sara A.S. Waters, her heirs and assigns in fee simple,
forever. |
SED:3:398 |
1868/03/25 |
|
Milcah Massey
Blackiston
|
County
|
Lib.:No.:Fol.
|
Date
|
| Kent
County: Milcah Massey,
spinster daughter of Daniel Massey, both of Kent County in Maryland,
buys for £23 from Ephraim Vansant, also of Kent County, Lott 46 in a
tract called Tolchester in Georgetown, Kent County, Maryland, upon the
Sassafras River at Ferry Point. |
DD:1:68 |
1762/05/26 |
| Kent
County: Proceedings of the
Second Judicial District of the State of Maryland before Chief Justice
James Tilghman, Esquire, and Samuel Chew & Philip Reed, Esquire,
Associate Justices. William Massey, Ebenezer Palmer & his wife
Sarah, Lewis Blackiston & Milcah Massey Blackiston, by her guardian
Lewis Blackiston, petition the court that they, together with Daniel
Massey, Mary Massey, and Araminta Massey are entitled as heirs to
Ebenezer Massey, who died intestate, to the following tracts of land in
Kent County: Massey's
Venture Resurveyed, Exchange and part of Partnership. Daniel
Massey, Mary Massey, and Araminta Massey are infants, under the age of
twenty one years, so the petitioners request that a commission be
formed to decide whether to partition or sell off the referenced lands.
James Scott is attorney for the petitioners; James Parker is guardian
to Mary Massey and Araminta Massey. The commissioners are to be
selected from Nathaniel Comegys, William Spencer, William Thomas,
Samuel Johnson, and Oliver Smith, all of Kent County. The commissioners
subsequently decided that the land could not be divided, as the heirs
would get less than fifty acres each, and the lands were not worth more
than £7 1/- per acre, whereupon they adjourned for several months to
the second Monday October of 1797, whereupon none of the heirs took the
option of receiving the lands and then paying to the other heirs their
fair shares, so the commission decided that the lands would be sold and
the proceeds divided among the heirs. The terms of the sale are that
one quarter of the purchase money be required at time of sale, and the
remainder to be paid in two equal yearly installments with legal
interest, the sale to be held on January 2, 1798. Subsequently the
lands were sold at public auction to Lewis Blackiston for £7 15/- 8p
per acre, thereby amounting to a total price of £2,076 4/- 1p.
The proceeds were allotted as follows: Lewis Blackiston produced two
deeds, one dated May 25, 1795 and the other dated April 14, 1796 which
conveyed to him the interests of William Massey and Daniel Massey;
Lewis Blackiston is further entitled to one sixth of the land by virtue
of his guardianship of his daughter Milcah Massey Blackiston; one half
of the purchase money goes to Lewis Blackiston to be retained in his
own hands; Ebenezer Palmer gets £346 8p; Mary Massey is allotted £346
8p; and Araminta Massey gets £346 8p. Signed by all of the aforesaid
commissioners. |
TW:2:425 |
1798/03/19 |
| Kent
County: William Massy
(Massey) of the City of Baltimore in the State of Maryland sells for
£18 15/-to John Wright of Georgetown in Kent County a 1/2 acre lot
bequeathed to him by Milcah Massey. The lot is bounded on one side by
the property of James Pearce and on another side by the parcel owned by
John Rumsey. John Wright satisfied this deed with a payment of $50,
[thereby establishing a contemporary exchange rate of $2.67 per £ -
GL,III,ed.] |
TW:2:50 |
1801/12/18 |
|
Nathan Massey
|
County
|
Lib.:No.:Fol.
|
Date
|
| Kent
County: Daniel Massey of
Kent County in Maryland petitions the Court to re-establish the
boundaries of Partnership. Commissioners reviewing the
depositions: Nicholas Smith, William Smith, William Comegys, Junior,
and Isaac Freeman. Deponents: John Falconar, age 33, Nathan
Massey, age about 30; and Samuel Davis, age 38. |
JS:27:347 |
1753/11/20 |
| Kent
County: William Barnes
sells for 10/- the 285 acre tract, part of Partnership, to his sisters
Sarah Barnes Massey (wife of Nathan Massey, Portsmough, Virginia),
Priscilla Barnes Green (wife of Cuthbert Green of Kent County in
Maryland), Rebecca Barnes Massey (wife of Joseph Massey of Kent County
in Maryland), and Jane Barnes of Kent County, Maryland.
Partnership lies near the head of Chester River in Kent County on the
South side of seven hundred acres of land, part of the aforesaid tract
sold Nathaniel Hynson, it being that part of the aforesaid tract [that]
was sold by Andrew Hamilton to Gilbert Falconar for the quantity of two
hundred and eighty five acres of land, which in turn was sold by
Abraham Falconar to William Barnes, Senior, who bequeathed it to his
son, William Barnes, Junior. Daniel Massey of Kent County was
appointed lawful attorney to complete the sale to the four sisters. |
DD:1:15 |
1764/11/17 |
|
Walter Massey
|
County
|
Lib.:No.:Fol.
|
Date
|
| Caroline
County: Walter Massey of
Caroline County in the State of Maryland sells for $1,093.56 to Henry
Ronset, also of Caroline County, a 3/4 acre lot in the village of
Greensborough in Caroline County on the South side of the main street
leading from Choptank Bridge to Boonesborough, which lot of ground
contains three quarters of an acre, and is the same lot that the
Curtiss M. Jones purchased from Henry Cousins & wife and is called
I[illegible remainder]. |
V:16 |
1840/11/07 |
| Caroline
County: Walter Massey of
Caroline County in the State of Maryland sells for $200.00 to Charles
Boadley, free man of color of Queen Anne's County, a 25 acre parcel
inherited from his late father William Massey. |
V:246 |
1841/12/16 |
| Queen
Anne's County: Walter
Massey of Caroline County in the State of Maryland sells for $200.00 to
Charles Bradley, free man of color of Queen Anne's County, a tract
lying partly in Caroline County and the rest in Queen Anne's County
that was inherited by Walter Massey from his father, William Massey. |
JT:3:422 |
1842/01/03 |
| Caroline
County: Abraham Gump, late
of Caroline County in the State of Maryland, bequeathed to his wife Ann
Maria a slave named Caroline with fourteen years of service remaining
from January 1, 1851, and another slave named Isaac with twenty six
years of service remaining from January 1, 1851, but Ann Maria has
since died intestate; and so Walter Massey obtained letters of
administration upon the estate of Ann Maria Gump and is now authorized
by Orphan's Court to sell the terms of service of Caroline and Isaac
unto Samuel Goolt for the sum of $504.00, who has been a bone fide
resident of Maryland for more than one year. |
AA:461 |
1853/01/27 |
| Caroline
County: Walter Massey of
Caroline County in the State of Maryland buys for $3,500.00 from
William G. Henry & Mary C. Henry, also of Caroline County, the
following parcels: Coal Banks Enlarged, Castlebury
& Castleto[w]n,
lying contiguous to each other in Caroline County and containing four
hundred and twenty five acres, being the same land which was sold by
William Williams to William G. Henry. |
BB:44 |
1853/05/17 |
| Caroline
County: Walter Massey and
his wife Mary C. Massey of Caroline County in the State of Maryland
execute a bond for $5,000.00 to secure a debt of $2,700.00 to William
G. Henry, also of Caroline County, to be repaid in four equal [amounts]
with legal interest thereon from the first of January last and also
convey the land where Walter Massey now resides, called Cool Brooks
Enlarged, Castlebury
and Castleto[w]n,
being the same tract which Walter Massey purchased from William G.
Henry, containing four hundred and twenty five acres. The conveyance
became null and void when repayment of the debt was successfully
completed by Walter Massey; see Liber
RJ No.29, Folio 629. |
BB:49 |
1853/05/31 |
| Caroline
County: Walter Massey of
Caroline County in the State of Maryland, administrator of the estate
of Ann M. Gump, late of Caroline County, sells for $140.00 to William
G. Horsey, also of Caroline County, the slave Adaline, with twenty nine
years and two months of service remaining from December 31, 1851. |
BB:74 |
1853/07/12 |
| Caroline
County: Walter Massey of
Caroline County in the State of Maryland, executor of the estate of the
late Abraham Gump, sells at public auction for $6,600.00 to William B.
Massey, also of Caroline County, the various tracts named White
Hall, Willente, Carmarthen,
Grubby
Neck, Grubby
Neck Addition, Buck
Range, Bite
the Biter, Self
Defence, Chance,
Farmers
Fields, Boons
Pleasure, Boons
Covit & Common
Sense Discovered, all lying contiguous to each other in the Upper
Election District of Caroline County, being the same parcels sold to
Abraham Gump by Thomas B. Gurpen and described in the deed recorded in
Liber JR No.R Folio 396-399, excepting the tracts which were sold by
Abraham Gump in his lifetime to Noah Leward, and containing for the
remainder hereby sold to William B. Massey, eight hundred acres. |
BB:84 |
1853/07/26 |
| Caroline
County: William B. Massey
of Caroline County in the State of Maryland sells for $8,000.00 to
Greensbury W. Ridgely of Delaware County in the State of Pennsylvania
the tracts called White
Hall, Willente, Carmarthen,
Grubby
Neck, Grubby
Neck Addition, Buck
Range, Bite
the Biter, Self
Defence, Chance,
Farmers
Fields, Boons
Pleasure, Boons
Covit & Common
Sense Discovered, all lying contiguous to each other in the Upper
Election District of Caroline County, being the same tracts of land
bought by the said William B. Massey from Walter Massey as described in
a deed from Thomas B. Turpin to Abraham Gump recorded in Liber JR No.R
Folio 396-399. |
BB:96 |
1853/08/25 |
| Caroline
County: Walter Massey of
Caroline County in the State of Maryland and executor (with widow Anna
Maria Gump) of the Last Will and Testament of the late Abraham Gump,
sells at public auction for $1.632.00 to John E. Starkey, also of
Caroline County, all that tract lying in Caroline County on the main
road leading from Jumptown to Turners Mill called Bradley
Farm, consisting of the following parts of the tracts called Colins
Rectified lying on Piney Branch containing one hundred acres and also
the tract called New Beckle ... being the same conveyed to the aforesaid
Abraham Gump, deceased, by Richard N. Potter, trustee for the sale of
the real estate of the above named John Bradley recorded by a deed
dated May 11, 1844. Said lands contain three hundred and sixty nine
acres. |
CC:263 |
1856/10/16 |
| Caroline
County: Walter Massey of Caroline County in the State
of Maryland buys for $11.50 from John Williams, also of Caroline
County, all that piece of land on the North side of the rail road
leading from Greensborough to Hillsborough and adjoining the lands of
Thomas Bell and James Swan, containing one acre. |
CC:565 |
1858/02/23 |
| Caroline
County: Walter Massey of
Caroline County in the State of Maryland sells for $11.50 to James
Swan, also of Caroline County, all that piece of land on the North side
of the rail road leading from Greensborough to Hillsborough and
adjoining the lands of Thomas Bell and James Swan, containing one acre. |
CC:565 |
1858/02/23 |
| Caroline
County: Walter Massey and
his wife Catherine V. Massey, both of Caroline County in the State of
Maryland, sell for $300.00 to Greensbury W. Ridgely, also of Caroline
County, all the tract bounded by the main road leading from
Boonsborough to the Brick Mill situated on the Choptank River and by
the main road running above the Camp Ground as far as the Mill Stream
of the brick Mill, thence by the said Mill Stream to the upper
boundary of the Mill Farm, thence viz. the said boundings of the first
mentioned main road leading from Boonsborough Campground to Brick Mill
aforesaid, containing sixty acres, it being part of the farm or tract
on which the said Walter Massey now resides. |
RJ:29:440 |
1860/01/14 |
| Caroline
County: Walter Massey and his wife Mary E. Massey, both
of Caroline County in the State of Maryland, in order to secure a debt
of $2,700.00 owed by William G. Henry, also of Caroline County,
executed a mortgage dated May 10, 1853, and recorded in Liber
TFG No.BB Folio 49-51. Now Walter Massey has fully satisfied the
terms of the referenced mortgage and is hereby released from that
obligation, so William G. Henry hereby completes the conveyance of the
lands called Cool Brooks Enlarged,
Castlebury
and Castleto[w]n
to Walter Massey. |
RJ:29:629 |
1861/05/28 |
| Caroline
County: Walter Massey, of
Caroline County in the State of Maryland and trustee for the sale of
lands in the case of Wm. B. Massey vs. Mary Dukes and others, takes
possession with his wife Catherine V. Massey of the tract called Marblehead
lying a few miles from the town of Greensborough and containing four
hundred and ninety acres and described in a deed dated March 19, 1842,
from James Dukes & wife, James C. Reyner & wife, Mathias Grange
& wife, Enoch Grange & wife and Eliza Jane Boon to Helene
Augusta Boon and John Nicholas Boon. |
RJ:30:38 |
1862/02/10 |
| Caroline
County: William B. Massey of Caroline County in the State of Maryland
buys for $6,000.00 from Walter Massey and his wife
Catherine V. Massey, both of Caroline
County, all that tract called Marblehead
lying in Caroline County and described by the deed dated March 19, 1842
from James Dukes &
wife, James C. Reyner & wife, Mathias Grange & wife, Enoch
Grange & wife and Eliza Jane Boon to Helene Augusta Boon and John
Nicholas Boon. |
RJ:30:38 |
1862/02/10 |
| Caroline
County: Walter Massey and his wife Catherine V. Massey
of Caroline County in the State of Maryland sell for $174.30 to Peter
Draper, also of Caroline County, all that part of a tract of land
located on the North side of the whole tract and on the West side of
the Choptank River ... containing
thirty four acres, three roods and thirteen perches. |
RJ:30:50 |
1862/03/10 |
Caroline
County: William B. Massey
and his wife Elizabeth A. Massey of Caroline County sell for $600.00 to
Walter Massey, also of Caroline County, all of his undivided interest
being the one half in the house and garden by which the said Walter
Massey now occupies, adjoining the property of Elizabeth Rawlings, Mary
Davis, and others which descended to the said William B. Massey and
Walter Massey by the death of our mother Elizabeth Roe and which the
said Elizabeth Roe purchased from William Roe. Witness: A. B. Roe and
Justice of the Peace A.B. Roe, Junior ...
|
JJ:32:242 |
1867/06/17 |
|
Sarah Massey
|
County
|
Lib.:No.:Fol.
|
Date
|
| Kent
County: Sarah Massey of
Kent County in Maryland buys for £51 an 8 acre portion of Spring Garden
from John Vansant. |
DD:3:351 |
1770/08/27 |
| Kent
County: Sarah Massey of
Kent County in Maryland buys for £30 a one acre portion of Spring
Garden from John Vansant, merchant of Kent County. |
DD:3:362 |
1771/09/10 |
| Queen
Anne's County: Sarah Massey
and Elizabeth Massey (daughters of Eleazer Massey) of Queen Anne's
County in Maryland for 5 shillings buy a tract of land called Reviving
Springs, purchased by Eleazer Massey from Samuel Ridgeway and wife
Littilia. |
CD:2:334 |
1787/09/08 |
| Kent
County: Lewis Inry and
Elizabeth (nee Massey) Inry of Kent County in Maryland buy for an
additional 16 pounds, 2 shillings and 6 pence (over 68 pounds, 5
shillings, 6 pence already paid) for a 0.5 acre parcel called
Rich Leville (which Simon Wilmer once sold to Benjamin Dawes) from the
heirs of Thomas Gilpin (Sarah Massey had sold the land to Thomas
Gilpin, who died before the transaction could be completed; afterwards
Sarah Massey also died intestate, having born John Massey, who was lost
at sea, and the aforesaid Elizabeth Massey, sole surviving heir) i.e.,
Lydia Gilpin, Thomas Fisher, Samuel Rowland Fisher, Miers Fisher, and
Joshua Gilpin, collectively represented by William Tilghman, Esquire. |
EF:7:527 |
1790/01/04 |
Queen
Anne's County: Benjamin
Massey of Kent County in Maryland buys back for 586 pounds, 6
shillings, 8 pence (to be paid in installments) from Benoni Harris and
wife Sarah a tract of land called Reviving
Springs (purchased from Benjamin Massey and wife Sarah.)
|
STW:3:482
|
1796/02/09 |
| Queen
Anne's County: Benjamin
Massey and his wife Elizabeth of Kent County in the State of Maryland
sell for £583 6/- 8p (and for
6,200 pounds of tobacco ?) to
Benoni Harris, also of Kent County, the tract called Reviving
Springs which Eleazer Massey, father of the aforesaid Benjamin
Massey, purchased from Samuel Ridgeway, Esquire, deceased, and his wife
Littilia on September 8, 1787, then granted by deed to his two
daughters Sarah Massey and Elizabeth Massey, being the undivided estate
of said Sarah Massey (now Sarah Harris, the wife of Benoni Harris) and
the aforesaid Elizabeth Massey. |
STW:3:491 |
1796/02/14 |
| Queen
Anne's County: Sarah
Massey, Anna Massey, and Elizabeth Massey (daughters of Joseph Massey
and his late wife Elizabeth (Hall)) as tenants in common buy for 5
shillings from Abraham Falconar and wife Sarah (Hall) a 500-acre tract
called Robotham's
Park (inherited by Sarah Hall and Elzabeth Hall from John Seal). |
STW:5:439 |
1801/10/31 |
| Queen
Anne's County: Benoni
Harris and his wife Sarah Massey Harris of Kent County in the State of
Maryland sell for £1,125 to Samuel Cacy of Queen Anne's County, Sarah
Harris's undivided moiety in 179-1/4 acres of the land which Sarah
Massey Harris with her sister Elizabeth Massey, wife of Benjamin Massey
of Kent County, inherited from their father, Eleazer Massey, deceased,
called Reviving
Springs, lying in Queen Anne's County. |
STW:7:373
|
1805/10/28 |
| Queen
Anne's County: Sarah
Massey of New Castle County in the State of Delaware, Anna Massey and
Elizabeth Massey, both of the City of Baltimore in the State of
Maryland sell for $6,555.00 to Samuel Cacy, of Queen Anne's County,
part of the tract called Massey's
[spelling?] Addition ... Excepted
is the burial ground now enclosed with poling, the dimensions of which
are forty two feet by twenty two feet, where Sarah Massey, Anna Massey,
and Elizabeth Massey and their heirs are to have free access forever to
bury their dead, should they incline to do so, and for no other use
whatsoever. |
TM:2:45 |
1819/02/09 |
Queen
Anne's County: Sarah
Massey, a.k.a. Sarah Falconar, of New Castle County in the State of
Delaware and Anna Massey and Elizabeth Massey, both of the City of
Baltimore in the State of Maryland sell for $6,585.00 to Joel Smith, of
Queen Anne's County, 329-1/4 acres of a part of Robotham's
Park.
|
TM:2:82 |
1819/04/05 |
Queen
Anne's County: James Massey
of Queen Anne's County in the State of Maryland sells a combined 557
plus acres in several tracts for $9,000.00 and $5.00, respectively, to
Thomas Murphy for one undivided moiety and to Sarah Massey Murphy for
the other undivided moiety, both of Queen Anne's County, in the tract
called Golden Square, composed of the tracts called Addition and Hemsley's
Reserve, which the said James Massey obtained from William Tilghman
of the City of Philadelphia on October 9, 1805, and also all that
part of a tract called Lambeth Fields, which Elizabeth Richmond and
James Tilghman Hemsley had conveyed by a joint deed on January 21, 1824
to James Massey ... containing five hundred three acres
[illegible] and eighteen perches. Also, all that part of a
tract called Durland
which Richard Tilghman Earle heretofore conveyed to James Massey on
July 30, 1816, and also part of a tract called Broomily
Lambeth, of which two parts Henry Tilghman and wife conveyed to
James Massey on May 9, 1823 ...
containing fifty four acres
[illegible] and twenty perches. |
TM:3:423 |
1825/02/16 |
|
Pamela Lambden
Massey
|
County
|
Lib.:No.:Fol.
|
Date
|
| Kent
County: Elijah Massey, out
of love and affection for Pamela Lambden Massey (daughter of Benjamin
Massey) and Francis Massey (daughter of James Massey) gives the 229
acre tract called Angels Rest (Elijah's present home) to Pamela and
Francis as tenants in common with the proviso that, should Pamela die
unmarried before the age of 21, her share of Angels Rest should go to
Carolyn Massey (another daughter of Benjamin Massey). Angels Rest
was acquired by Elijah from Thomas Witherspoon and adjoins lands of
Casparis Meginniss and Benjamin Massey. |
BC:6:476 |
1811/07/16 |
Queen
Anne's County: Joshua W.
Massey & wife Pamelia L. Massey of
Queen Anne's County in the State of Maryland sell for $4,464.00 to
Edward Sudler, also of Queen Anne's County, 186 acres, consisting of
parts of the tracts called Sheppard's
Forrest, [Spry's
?] Chance, and Sledmore, lying in the upper part of Queen Anne's
County ... to the
divisional line between Joshua Massey, Junior, and Remy Covington's
heirs ...
|
TM:2:84 |
1819/04/05 |
| Kent
County: Francis Massey
Seegar, wife of Arthur Seegar, (both of Queen Anne's County in the
State of Maryland) having reached the age of twenty one, completes the
sale of her
share of Angels Rest that had been willed to her and her sister Pamela
Lambden Massey by Elijah Massey when Francis was a minor, on April
16, 1811. Benjamin Massey of Kent County is the buyer, at
$3,000.00. According to the referenced
deed, Pamela Lambden Massey is the daughter of Benjamin Massey and
Francis Massey is the daughter of James Massey. |
WS:3:474 |
1821/12/29 |
| Kent
County: August 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. |
TW:4:179 |
1822/08/08 |
| Kent
County: Joshua W. Massey
and Pamela L. Massey of Queen Anne's County in the State of Maryland
sell for $1.00 to Benjamin Massy (Massey) for his natural life and
Caroline E. Massy (Massey) for ever a 139-1/2 acre portion of Angels
Lot that Pamela L[ambden] Massey was given by her grandfather Elijah
Massy (Massey). |
TW:4:188 |
1823/01/30 |
| Queen
Anne's County: Joshua W.
Massey of Queen Anne's County in the State of Maryland sells for $90.00
to James Graves his slave, Mary Graves, wife of James Graves, free
black. Joshua W. Massey recently purchased Mary Graves, age
twenty seven, from Oli S. Pardee and his wife Susan, formerly Susan
Elliott, executrix of John Elliott, late of Queen Anne's County.
Joshua W. Massey hereby obligates himself to set Mary Graves free upon
the payment of the aforesaid $90.00 with legal interest thereon from
the 15th of July 1828 to the present. The payment of $90.00 plus
legal interest of $3.53-1/2 was acknowledged on March 30, 1829, by
Pamela L. Massey, executrix of the estate of the late Joshua W. Massey,
who thereupon declared Mary Graves free forever. |
TM:5:205 |
1829/05/05 |
Queen
Anne's County: William R.
Massey of Baltimore County in the State of Maryland agrees to
relinquish his one sixth moiety in all the lands in Queen Anne's and
Kent counties that he inherited from Joshua W. Massey in exchange for
$1,000.00 in cash (less any money owed by William R. Massey to Pamela
L. Massey at the time of settlement on the first of January next) and
the transfer of slaves Robert and Shadrach paid to him by Pamela L.
Massey of the City of Baltimore. The lands are: Bath,
Friendship Manors, Chance, White Oak, Adventure, and Browne's Purchase,
which Joshua W. Massey purchased from James Barr of Kent County.
Witnesses: Ebenezer T. Massey and Thomas Sappington.
|
JT:1:143 |
1834/07/21 |
| Kent
County: James F. Browne,
formerly tax collector for Kent County in the State of Maryland, sells
at auction the 120 acre tract called Rumford
to settle a tax bill of $3.12 owed by the heirs of Joshua W. Massey.
Pamela L[ambden] Massey is the high bidder at $6.00 through her agent
Ebenezer T. Massey of Kent County. |
JNG:4:433 |
1837/03/07 |
| Queen
Anne's County: William R.
Massey and wife Emily Ann of the Town of Alexandria, District of
Columbia, being indebted to [difficult reading ahead !] A.C. Lazonas,
John H. Jannoy, Grupper & Dean - Merchants [illegible] George L.
Bumford of George Town, Crawford of McKim, George & Mayes, Mason
& Hanlen, George C. Rollins, merchants of Baltimore and Bank of
Potomac Alexandria [illegible words] amounting to about $2,800.00 which
William R. Massey desires to pay to his creditors, through a deed of
trust to Christopher Neale, one sixth of his equity in the following
lands: Friendship, Bath,
Manor's Chance, White Oak, Spry's
Adventure, [illegible name] Purchase, containing in all about 2,600
acres in Queen Anne's and Kent counties, all of which belonged to his
father, the late Joshua W. Massey of Queen Anne's County, subject first
to the dower right of Pamela L. Massey, widow of Joshua W. Massey, and
also to a previous mortgage made and executed by William R. Massey to
Joseph [illegible surname] of Baltimore for $1,000 or
thereabouts. Should William R. Massey [somehow] repay the stated
debt, then this indenture becomes null and void. If he defaults,
then Christopher Neale is entitled to sell the aforesaid listed tracts
piecemeal for cash until the debt is satisfied. |
JT:2:623 |
1839/03/01 |
| Kent
County: Parmelia (Pamela)
L. Massey of Cumberland County in the State of Pennsylvania sells for
$810.00 to Jeremiah Cosden of Kent County in the State of Maryland the
tracts called The Forest (Forrest) and Rumford,
totaling 118+ acres. ... This
is the same parcel deeded to Parmelia (Pamela) L. Massey by James F.
Browne, Esquire, former [tax] collector of Kent County. |
JNG:8:102 |
1842/02/22 |
Queen
Anne's County: A commission
is set up to divide the lands of the late Joshua W. Massey of Queen
Anne's County in the State of Maryland and is made up of the following
men: Jesse Knock, William H. Foster, Arthur E. Sudler, James Giant
[maybe Skint], and Edward Coppage, all of Queen Anne's County.
The lands at issue are: Friendship, Maynors Chance, Irish Farm etc. The
heirs of Joshua W. Massey are: William R. Massey, James H. Massey,
Marietta I. Dobbs (wife of Alexander Dobbs, formerly Marietta Massey)
Joseph A. Massey, Thomas C. Massey, Benjamin A. Massey and Pamela L.
Massey, his widow. Thomas C. Massey, who was a minor, initiated
the formation of this commission in order properly to divide the lands
of Joshua W. Massey. ...
They thereupon scheduled
and advertised at public sale at Dixon's Tavern in Queen Anne's County,
all of the above lands, excepting the dower right of Pamela L.
Massey. Ebenezer T. Massey subsequently became the highest bidder
for Friendship; James [illegible surname] of Lots No.'s 2 & 3; Lot
No.4, being mainly woodland, was divided among Lots No.'s 1, 2 & 3
[... unintelligible negotiations following...]. |
JT:4:498 |
1845/08/19 |
Queen
Anne's County: Pamela L.
Massey, Joshua A. Massey, and [] his wife, all of the County of Sumples
in the State of Alabama, Benjamin A. Massey and Anna Massey, his wife,
Thomas E. Massey and Sara Massey, his wife, and Alexander F. Dobbs and
Henrietta Dobbs, his wife, all of the State of Ohio, sell for $3,000.00
to Ebenezer T. Massey of Kent County in the State of Maryland the
tracts called Maynor's Chance, Tilghman's Friendship, and Collins
Range, formerly the property of Joshua W. Massey, deceased, who was
the husband of Pamela L. Massey and the father of Joshua A. Massey,
Benjamin A. Massey, Thomas E. Massey, and Henrietta I. Dobbs, his
children and heirs at law. ... And
also, all that part of Collins Range ... containing twenty acres,
assigned to Pamela L. Massey for life as her dower.
|
JT:5:345 |
1847/12/07 |
| Queen
Anne's County: A commission
described in Liber
JT No.4 Folio 498 evaluated and then sold at public auction the
lands of the late Joshua W. Massey of Queen Anne's County in the State
of Maryland. The present deed describes the sale and lands conveyed to
Ebenezer T. Massey of Kent County in the State of Maryland. As before,
the commissioners are Jesse Knock of Kent County, and William H. Foster
and Arthur E. Sudler of Queen Anne's County. The commission was
established by petition from Benjamin A. Massey to dispose fairly the
lands of Joshua W. Massey, now among them the tracts called Tilghman's
Friendship, Pryor's [illegible], and Maynor's Chance. ... except that part of said tract, called
Tilghman's Friendship ... containing twenty acres, which was assigned
to Pamela L. Massey as part of her dower. |
JT:5:493 |
1848/05/29 |
| Queen
Anne's County: Thomas G.H.
Massey of Kent County in the State of Maryland sells for $5,000.00 to
Charles H.B. Massey, also of Kent County, the 362 acre tract called
Tilghmans Friendship, lying in Queen Anne's County between Sudlersville
and Millington, it being the same tract which was conveyed to the late
Ebenezer T. Massey by Jesse Knock, W.H. Foster, and Arthur E. Sudler,
commissioners appointed to divide and sell the real estate of Joshua W.
Massey, by deed dated June 3, 1848, and recorded in Liber
JT No.5, Folio 493; another part
of Tilghmans Friendship lying in Queen Anne's County, containing twenty
acres, which was conveyed to Ebenezer T. Massey by Pamela L. Massey and
Joshua A. Massey and others by deed dated September 18, 1841, and
recorded in Liber
JT No.5, Folio 345; and also a portion of the tract called Woodbridge
Corrected (designated in the Last Will and Testament of Ebenezer T.
Massey as the Cacy Purchase) lying in Queen Anne's County, containing
fifty acres, which had been conveyed to Ebenezer T. Massey by Francis
C. Cacy by deed dated September 13, 1846, and recorded in Liber JP
No.5, Folio 200, all of which lands were devised by the late Ebenezer
T. Massey to his wife Emily Ann Massey for and during her natural life
and after her death to his son, the said Thomas G.H. Massey, in fee
simple. |
SED:1:404 |
1864/12/01 |
| Queen
Anne's County: Charles H.B. Massey and his wife Mary A.O.
Massey, both of Kent County in the State of Maryland, sell for
$5,000.00 to Thomas G.H. Massey of Westmoreland County in the State of
Virginia all that tract called Tilghmans Friendship, lying in Queen
Anne's County between Sudlersville and Millington, containing three
hundred and sixty two acres, it being the same tract which was conveyed
to the late Ebenezer T. Massey by Isaac Knock, W.H. Foster and Arthur
B. Sudler, commissioners appointed to divide or sell the real estate of
Joshua W. Massey by deed dated June 3, 1848, and recorded in Liber
JT No.5, Folio 493; also [another] part of Tilghmans Friendship
containing twenty acres which was conveyed to Ebenezer T. Massey by
Pamela L. Massey and Joshua A. Massey and others by deed dated
September 8, 1841, [probably what is recorded in Liber
JT
No.5, Folio 345 - GL,III, ed.] and also the tract, part
of Woodbridge
Corrected, designated in the Last Will and Testament of Ebenezer T.
Massey as the Cacy Purchase, containing fifty acres, it being the same
tract conveyed to Ebenezer T. Massey by Francis H. Cacy by deed dated
September 13, 1846, [and recorded in Liber
JT No.5, Folio 200] all of which tracts were devised by
the late Ebenezer T. Massey to his wife Emily Ann Massey for and during
her natural life, and after her death to his son, the said Thomas G.H.
Massey in fee simple by his Last Will and Testament, and which were
conveyed by the said Thomas G.H. Massey to the said Charles H.B. Massey
by deed dated December 19, 1864, recorded in Liber
SED No.1, Folio 404. |
SED:2:347 |
1866/06/14 |
|
Notlar/Nollar
Massey
|
County
|
Lib.:No.:Fol.
|
Date
|
| Kent
County: Solomon Wright of
Queen Anne's County in Maryland bequeathed the 440 acre tract called
The Forrest to his sons Solomon Wright, Junior, (John Wright being son
and heir of Solomon) and Charles Wright (Notlar Wright Massey being
daughter and heiress of Charles). In this division, John and Notlar
agree to divide The
Forrest ... the
westernmost to be the property of John Wright, and the easternmost to
go to Notlar Wright (Massey). |
JS:26:241 |
1748/08/16 |
Kent
County: Peter Massey of
Kent County in Maryland for 3,000 pounds of tobacco buys a 25
acre parcel called The Forest from John Wright and wife Nollar.
|
JS:26:254 |
1749/08/12 |
|
Noah Massey
|
County
|
Lib.:No.:Fol.
|
Date
|
Queen
Anne's County: William
Massey of Carlisle [Caroline ?] County, State of Maryland, for the sum
of £15 buys an 8 year old slave boy named Robert from Noah Massey,
farmer of Kent County. Witnesses: Thom. Roberts and Wm.
Frederick. The deed is endorsed to the effect that if Noah Massey
returns the £15 with legal interest on or before the next August 20th,
then the transaction shall be of no effect, meaning that this deed is a
mortgage instrument for a short-term loan.
|
STW:5:269 |
1800/08/09 |
| Queen
Anne's County: Noah Massey,
of Queen Anne's County and State of Maryland, sells for £300 the
24-year-old slave woman called Sarah and her two children John (6 years
old) and James (18 months old) to John Roberts, also of Queen Anne's
County. |
STW:6:430 |
1803/08/26 |
|
Winder Massey
|
County
|
Lib.:No.:Fol.
|
Date
|
| Kent
County: Winder Massey of
the City of Baltimore in the State of Maryland buys a 142 acre portion
of Angels Rest for $1.00 from his grandfather Elijah Massey, who
purchased the tract from Cornelius Vansant, deceased, who in turn had
obtained it from Jacob Gibson. Ann Massey, mother of Winder
Massey, now lives on Angels Rest. |
BC:6:356 |
1811/03/19 |
| Kent
County: Benjamin Massey,
Esquire, of Kent County, buys for £710 the 142 acre tract called Angels
Rest from Winder Massey, gentleman of Baltimore County, who had bought
the tract from his grandfather Elijah Massey. |
BC:6:479 |
1811/07/15 |
| Kent
County: Benjamin Massey,
Esquire, in order to secure a debt of £710 owed to Winder Massey,
gentleman of Baltimore, sells in a mortgage deed the 142 acre tract
called Angels Rest to Winder for $5.00, which sale becomes null and
void if Benjamin makes payment of £355 on October 1, 1811 and another
payment of £355 on October 1, 1812, plus legal interest. In the
meantime, Benjamin is free to occupy and use the land and premises as
he wishes. Winder Massey had previously obtained the land (on
March 19, 1811) from his grandfather and sold it to Benjamin in an
earlier transaction. |
BC:7:10 |
1811/09/22 |
| Kent
County: Benjamin Massey of
Kent County and State of Maryland buys for $826.87 the 142 acre tract
called Goose
Haven (said tract inherited by Elizabeth (nee Comegys) Vanhorn from
the William Comegys, Senior and her own father William, and adjoining
the land of Arthur Wheatley) from Jonathan Vanhorn and wife Elizabeth
Vanhorn. |
BC:7:289 |
1813/01/18 |
| Kent
County: Winder Massey of
the city of Philadelphia transfers ownership of the 142 acre tract
called Angels Rest back to Benjamin Massey, having received timely
repayment of the £710 debt plus legal interest owed by Benjamin to
Winder. Winder previously had been given the land by his
grandfather (on March 19, 1811) and subsequently sold it to Benjamin. |
BC:7:309 |
1813/02/03 |
|
William Massey
|
County
|
Lib.:No.:Fol.
|
Date
|
| Queen
Anne's County: Patent - Paccolott,
Paccolett - 18 acres - Developer/Owner: William Massey |
Pat
cert. 758 |
1728/10/08 |
Queen
Anne's County: Patent - Hazard
- 110 acres - Developer/Owner: William Massy
|
Pat.
cert. 445 |
1728/10/10 |
Queen
Anne's County: Moses
Massey of Queen Anne's County in the State of Maryland gives out
of good will and affection a number of items and real estate to his
children: daughter Permela, son Samuel, son Hemsley, daughter
Elizabeth, son Levi, his friend Rachel Lacharse and his daughter
Permela, the wife of John Peters. ... Witnesses: James Massey, William Massey, and
Charles Simmond.
|
RT:L:445 |
1781/10/26 |
| Queen
Anne's County: William
Massey of Queen Anne's County in the State of Maryland buys for £20 in
specie from William Charles Neill and wife Mary of the same place, a
1-1/2 acre portion of the tract called Bridgewater in Queen Anne's
County. Courses: Beginning at the end of the East North East line that
is eighty four and 22/25 perches, part of the tract called Bridgewater,
sold by Joseph Nicholson, Junior, to James Massey ... containing by
estimation one and a half acres. |
RT:3:25 |
1782/08/10 |
| Queen
Anne's County: William
Massey of Queen Anne's County in the State of Maryland buys for £15
15/- from Francis Rochester, also of Queen Anne's County, a 6-1/4 acre
portion of the tract called Nasoby
in Queen Anne's County. Courses: Beginning at the end of fifty one
perches upon the second line of a tract called Nasoby and from thence
running ... to a tract called Bridgewater,
thence ... to a tract called Reviving
Springs ... containing six and a quarter acres. |
RT:3:70 |
1783/02/11 |
| Queen
Anne's County: James Massey
of Queen Anne's County in the State of Maryland buys for £100 from
Joseph H. Nicholson, Senior, and wife Mary of Kent County a 61 acre
portion of the 300 acre tract called Bridgewater
that was allotted to the said Joseph Nicholson, Senior, and his wife
Mary by the Sheriff of Queen Anne's County in 1773 by writ of partition
obtained from the Provincial Court to partition between Joseph
Nicholson and his wife Mary, Joseph Nicholson, Junior and his wife
Elizabeth, and William Charles Neill, eldest son and heir of the late
Henrietta Neill the tracts called Bridgewater, another parcel called Stepney,
and a third tract called Camberwells, whose metes and bounds were duly
recorded. James Massey agreed to pay for the land as adjudged by the
jury at the rate of £7 per acre. Witnesses: William Massey ... |
CD:1:95 |
1784/10/30 |
| Queen
Anne's County: James Massey
and William Massey of Queen Anne's County in the State of Maryland
manumit the slave woman named Amy whom they inherited at the death of
their father James Massey to carry out the Will of their late father,
who intended to set the Amy free from a state of slavery. |
STW:1:152 |
1788/10/08 |
| Kent
County: William Massy
(Massey) of Baltimore County in Maryland sells for £300 one-sixth
portions of Massey's
Venture Resurveyed, The Exchange, and Partnership in Kent County to
Lewis Blackiston of Kent County. William was bequeathed Masseys
Venture Resurveyed, The Exchange, and Partnership by his father,
Ebenezer Massey. |
BC:4:269 |
1795/10/07 |
| Kent
County: Proceedings of the
Second Judicial District of the State of Maryland before Chief Justice
James Tilghman, Esquire, and Samuel Chew & Philip Reed, Esquire,
Associate Justices. William Massey, Ebenezer Palmer & his wife
Sarah, Lewis Blackiston & Milcah Massey Blackiston, by her guardian
Lewis Blackiston, petition the court that they, together with Daniel
Massey, Mary Massey, and Araminta Massey are entitled as heirs to
Ebenezer Massey, who died intestate, to the following tracts of land in
Kent County: Massey's
Venture Resurveyed, Exchange and part of Partnership. Daniel
Massey, Mary Massey, and Araminta Massey are infants, under the age of
twenty one years, so the petitioners request that a commission be
formed to decide whether to partition or sell off the referenced lands.
James Scott is attorney for the petitioners; James Parker is guardian
to Mary Massey and Araminta Massey. The commissioners are to be
selected from Nathaniel Comegys, William Spencer, William Thomas,
Samuel Johnson, and Oliver Smith, all of Kent County. The commissioners
subsequently decided that the land could not be divided, as the heirs
would get less than fifty acres each, and the lands were not worth more
than £7 1/- per acre, whereupon they adjourned for several months to
the second Monday October of 1797, whereupon none of the heirs took the
option of receiving the lands and then paying to the other heirs their
fair shares, so the commission decided that the lands would be sold and
the proceeds divided among the heirs. The terms of the sale are that
one quarter of the purchase money be required at time of sale, and the
remainder to be paid in two equal yearly installments with legal
interest, the sale to be held on January 2, 1798. Subsequently the
lands were sold at public auction to Lewis Blackiston for £7 15/- 8p
per acre, thereby amounting to a total price of £2,076 4/- 1p.
The proceeds were allotted as follows: Lewis Blackiston produced two
deeds, one dated May 25, 1795 and the other dated April 14, 1796 which
conveyed to him the interests of William Massey and Daniel Massey;
Lewis Blackiston is further entitled to one sixth of the land by virtue
of his guardianship of his daughter Milcah Massey Blackiston; one half
of the purchase money goes to Lewis Blackiston to be retained in his
own hands; Ebenezer Palmer gets £346 8p; Mary Massey is allotted £346
8p; and Araminta Massey gets £346 8p. |
TW:2:425 |
1798/03/19 |
| Queen
Anne's County: James
Massey, farmer of Queen Annee's County in the State of Maryland sells
for £1,275 to Hemsley Massey, also farmer of Queen Anne's County, parts
of the following tracts totaling 345 acres: Massey's
Part of Friendship Corrected, Spry's
Chance, and Spry's Friendship ... Unicorn Branch [of Chester River] it being
the beginning tree of a division line formerly established between
James Massey, deceased, and William Massey, also deceased, by the Will
of their late father, James Massey ... to a stone at one end of a division line
between the said James Massey and Joshua Massey ... at the other end of the aforesaid division
line between the lands of James Massey and Joshua Massey ... One exception is a forty foot square burial
ground within Massey's Part of Friendship Corrected that is reserved
for James Massey and his heirs with the privilege of egress and regress. |
STW:4:445 |
1798/06/12 |
Queen
Anne's County: William
Massey of Carlisle [Caroline ?] County, State of Maryland, for the sum
of £15 buys an 8 year old slave boy named Robert from Noah Massey,
farmer of Kent County. Witnesses: Thom. Roberts and Wm.
Frederick. The deed is endorsed to the effect that if Noah Massey
returns the £15 with legal interest on or before the next August 20th,
then the transaction shall be of no effect, meaning that this deed is a
mortgage instrument for a short-term loan.
|
STW:5:269
|
1800/08/09 |
| Queen
Anne's County: William
Massey of Caroline County in the State of Maryland buys for £25 in
specie from George Spry of Queen Anne's County a slave named Nan, about
twenty nine years old, and her child Hanna, aged three. |
STW:5:444 |
1801/03/17 |
| Kent
County: William Massy
(Massey) of the City of Baltimore in the State of Maryland sells for
£18 15/-to John Wright of Georgetown in Kent County a 1/2 acre lot
bequeathed to him by Milcah Massey. The lot is bounded on one side by
the property of James Pearce and on another side by the parcel owned by
John Rumsey. John Wright satisfied this deed with a payment of $50,
[thereby establishing a contemporary exchange rate of $2.67 per £ -
GL,III,ed.] |
TW:2:50 |
1801/12/18 |
| Queen
Anne's County: William
Massey of Caroline County in the State of Maryland buys for £75 from
Samuel Keene of Queen Anne's County a Mulatto slave boy called Newton
about thirteen years old. |
STW:6:59 |
1802/04/15 |
| Queen
Anne's County: Hemsley
Massey of Queen Anne's County in Maryland for 1,500 pounds buys a 399.5
acre tract of land (including the 46.75 acres bought in 1801) called Collins
Range or Collins His Range in Queen Anne's Countyn from Daniel Toas
Massey, farmer. ... be the
same more or less which said lines also include the quantity of forty
six acres and three eights of an acre of land heretofore sold and
conveyed by the said Daniel Toas Massey to the said Hemsley Massey and
for which no consideration money is now paid by the said Hemsley Massey
to the said Daniel Toas Massey. Witnesses: William Lindsay,
William B. Hackett, William & Joshua Massey, and Hemsley Massey. |
STW:6:493 |
1804/10/04 |
Queen
Anne's County: William
Massey of Caroline County in the State of Maryland buys for $5,664.50
from Richard W.N. Keene of Queen Anne's County, the male slaves named
Stutly, aged forty five years, and Lavis, aged thirty three years, the
women named Mary, aged twenty four years, and Rachel, aged twenty two
years, one girl named Jane, aged twelve years, one D. named Caroline,
aged eight years, one D.named Nan, aged seven years, one boy named
Sonnen, aged three years, another named Dick, aged two years, a child
aged five months ... [and sundry goods & chattels.]
|
JB:2:353 |
1814/06/03 |
| Queen
Anne's County: William
Massey of Caroline County in the State of Maryland sells for $2,657.00
to Richard W. Newton Keene of Queen Anne's County 265-3/4 acres of the
lands in Queen Anne's County ... (1) Part of a tract called Marshland
...and (2) Part of the tract called Eden Kelly ...
|
TM:1:95 |
1816/09/05 |
Queen
Anne's County: William
Massey of Caroline County in the State of Maryland sells for $2,664.50
to Richard W. Newton Keene of Queen Anne's County the very same slaves,
animals, furniture and household goods bought from Mr. Keene on June
13, 1814; see this deed:
Liber
JB: No.2: Folio 353. One slave named Stutley, aged forty six years,
another named Lavis, aged twenty three years, two women named Mary,
aged twenty four years, and Rachel, aged twenty two years, one girl
named Nan, aged seven years, one boy named Lonnon, aged three years,
another boy named Dick, aged two years, one infant boy, five months old
... [and the same sundry goods & chattels ... Except for my difficulty in reading the
slaves' names, it is oddly telling that their estimated ages have not
materially changed - GL,III, ed.]
|
TM:1:98 |
1816/09/05 |
Caroline
County: Elizabeth Massey of
Caroline County in the State of Maryland buys for $798.87 from Col.
Richard Keene, also of Caroline County, parts of the tracts called Lot, Goshen & Edenborough,
lying in Caroline County ... to
the bridge on the said road opposite William Massey's gate that leads
to the said William Massey's late dwelling house ...
|
M:233 |
1818/08/05 |
| Caroline
County: William B. Massey
of Caroline County in the State of Maryland sells for $182.50 to
William Jones, also of Caroline County, a 50 acre portion of a tract
lying partly in Queen Anne's County and the rest in Caroline County
that William B. Massey inherited from his late father, William Massey,
and which adjoins lands belonging to the heirs of Samuel Keene, late of
Queen Anne's County, John Robert, late of Caroline County, deceased,
and the aforesaid William Jones. |
T:227 |
1837/03/15 |
| Caroline
County: Walter Massey of
Caroline County in the State of Maryland sells for $200.00 to Charles
Boadley, free man of color of Queen Anne's County, a 25 acre parcel
inherited from his late father William Massey. |
V:261 |
1841/12/16 |
| Queen
Anne's County: Walter
Massey of Caroline County in the State of Maryland sells for $200.00 to
Charles Bradley, free man of color of Queen Anne's County, a tract
lying partly in Caroline County and the rest in Queen Anne's County
that was inherited by Walter Massey from his father, William Massey. |
JT:3:422 |
1842/01/03 |
|
| William A. Massey |
County
|
Lib.:No.:Fol.
|
Date
|
| Queen
Anne's County: William A.
Massey of Queen Anne's County in the State of Maryland sells for
$300.00 to James Britton, also of Queen Anne's County, a 1/2 acre town
lot in the village of Millington, formerly Head of Chester,
adjoined on the North by a lot belonging to Samuel Shane, on the West
by a lot belonging to Isaac Jackson, and on the South by a another lot
belonging to the said James Britton. |
TM:2:219 |
1820/05/02 |
|
| William B. Massey |
County
|
Lib.:No.:Fol.
|
Date
|
| Caroline
County: William B. Massey
of Caroline County in the State of Maryland sells for $182.50 to
William Jones, also of Caroline County, a 50 acre portion of a tract
lying partly in Queen Anne's County and the rest in Caroline County
that William B. Massey inherited from his late father, William Massey,
and which adjoins lands belonging to the heirs of Samuel Keene, late of
Queen Anne's County, John Robert, late of Caroline County, deceased,
and the aforesaid William Jones. |
T:227 |
1837/03/15 |
Caroline
County: William B. Massey
of Caroline County in the State of Maryland buys for $1,800.00 from
Henry Straughn and his wife Martha, also of Caroline County, a portion
of a tract that Henry Straughn purchased from James W. Williams and a
part of Addition to Ducks, part of Duck's Park and Skinner's Chance
Corrected, and a part of Kiddeman's Fancy ... Witnesses: Justices of the Peace E.T. Massey
and ...
|
U:197 |
1839/08/06 |
| Caroline
County: William B. Massey
and William H. Downs of Caroline County in the State of Maryland buy
for $200.00 from Eleanor T. Barwick, also of Caroline County, all the
187-1/2 acre tract which the late Joshua H. Barwick purchased from the
heirs of William E. Chelton, late of Caroline County. |
V:244 |
1841/11/13 |
| Caroline
County: William B. Massey
and his wife Ann M. Massey of Caroline County in the State of Maryland
sell for $2,000.00 to Thomas C. Clendenning, Junior, also of Caroline
County, 240 acres of tracts in the Upper District of Caroline County
which William B. Massey purchased from Tierney Sharghan, a part of Addition
to Buck Park, Buck
Park, Skinners Chances Corrected and Fiddaman's Fancy. |
V:261 |
1842/01/04 |
| Caroline
County: William B. Massey
& wife Ann Maria Massey and Matthew Chitton of Caroline County in
the State of Maryland sells for $500.00 to William H. Downes, also of
Caroline County, the tract called Ingeraine in Caroline County
adjoining the lands of William Turner & others and immediately on
the main road leading from Greensborough to Parnell's Blacksmith Shop,
containing one hundred and eighty seven acres. |
V:324 |
1842/03/03 |
| Caroline
County: William B. Massey
and Henry Rosette have taken out a note for $125.00 to the Bank of
Maryland at Easton, due at six months, the security for which is the
present tract called Ingram's
Desire that Doctor Shadrack Harper and his wife Mary are mortgaging
to William B. Massey and
Henry Rosette. Ingram's
Desire lies in Caroline County in Greensborough on the West side of the
main road leading from the Methodist Church to the Deep Branch and
adjoins lands belonging to the heirs of the late Doctor Charles Tilden
& others and contains three quarters of an acre; Shadrack Harper
purchased Ingram's Desire from Batchelder Chance, late of Caroline
County. The present sale is to become completely null and void if
Shadrack Harper
and his wife Mary pay back the borrowed sum with legal interest. |
X:17 |
1845/11/06 |
| Caroline
County: William H. Downes
and his wife Sarah M. Downs of Queen Anne's County in the State of
Maryland sell for $237.50 to William B. Massey of Greesborough in
Caroline County a one acre lot in the village of Greensborough which
William H. Downs purchased from James Smith and which adjoins the
property of George Reed, Henry M. Godwin, and William Turner's heirs
and which lies on the main street of the village, a part of the tract
called Ingram. |
X:72 |
1846/02/03 |
| Caroline
County: William B. Massey
of Caroline County and John Dunning of Talbot County, both in the State
of Pennsylvania, acting as the executors of the last will and testament
of the late Samuel P. Dunning, sell for $100.50 at public sale to the
highest bidder, Cornelius Comegys of Caroline County, the lot in the
Upper Election District of Caroline County which Samuel P. Dunning
purchased from William H. Downs ... containing six acres, one rood, and fourteen
perches, excepting one half acre reserved within the described area for
a grave. |
X:221 |
1846/10/12 |
| Caroline
County: William B. Massey
of Caroline County and John Dunning of Talbot County, both in the State
of Pennsylvania, acting as the executors of the last will and testament
(dated February 19, 1844, and recorded in Caroline County) of the late
Samuel P. Dunning, sell for $445.00 to Doctor Henry Rousset of Caroline
County, the lot in the Upper Election District of Caroline County which
formerly belonged to Doctor William Jackson and was then sold to the
said Samuel P. Dunning by deed dated July 24, 1830 and recorded in
Liber JR No.2 [Book R - not yet available - GL,III,ed.], Folio 491
& 492 of Caroline County. |
X:235 |
1846/10/20 |
Caroline
County: Thomas H. Jackson,
Sarah Collins & Harriett Jackson of Milford in Kent County, State
of Maryland; and Nathaniel Jackson and wife Mary of the City of
Philadelphia, sell for $25.00 to William B. Massey of Greensborough in
Caroline County, a 1/4+ acre lot in the town of Greensborough adjoining
a lot in Greensborough leased by Peter Harrington to John Brown ...
This is the same lot that
was leased by deed recorded in Caroline County and dated November 18,
1791 for ninety nine years, renewable forever, to Abednigo Jackson by
Peter Harrington. |
X:241 |
1846/11/21 |
| Caroline
County: William B. Massey and wife Ann M. Massey of Caroline County in
the State of Maryland sell for $1,100.00 to Thomas A. Turner, Esquire,
also of Caroline County, several lots in the town of Greensborough
which were purchased by William B. Massey at public sale from Thomas A.
Turner surviving executor of the estate of William Turner, deceased,
and which are described in a deed dated November 2, 1847. |
X:524 |
1847/12/04 |
| Caroline
County: Thomas A. Turner,
of Caroline County in the State of Maryland, acting as surviving
executor of the estate of William Turner sells, at public auction on
June 3,1847, for a total of $1,090.00, to William B. Massey, several
lots in the town of Greensborough: Parcel 1: $640.00; Parcel 2:
$335.00; and Parcel 3: $115.00, confirmed in Orphan's Court of Caroline
County. |
X:532 |
1847/12/04 |
| Caroline
County: William B. Massey
of Caroline County in the State of Maryland, acting as trustee in a
complaint against James Francis Love, Thomas Keeny Love, and Martha Ann
Love, heirs of Aaron Love, deceased, sells for $1,030.00 to William
Willson, also of Caroline County, 224-1/2 acres of the parcel called
Cold Spring, lying in Caroline County and adjoining the lands of Thomas
Burchenall, Edward Carpenter's heirs, and others. |
X:599 |
1848/02/08 |
| Caroline
County: William B. Massey
of Caroline County and John Dunning of Talbot County, both in the State
of Maryland, executors of the Last Will and Testament of Samuel P.
Dunning, late of Caroline County, deceased, sell for $1,100.00 to
Richard Jarrell of Queen Anne's County the following lands &
parcels lying in Caroline County: Ingraam's
Desire, Saylorton, Bear
Point and Hickory
Ridge. |
AA:212 |
1852/05/25 |
| Caroline
County: Walter Massey of
Caroline County in the State of Maryland, executor of the estate of the
late Abraham Gump, sells at public auction for $6,600.00 to William B.
Massey, also of Caroline County, the various tracts named White
Hall, Willente, Carmarthen,
Grubby
Neck, Grubby
Neck Addition, Buck
Range, Bite
the Biter, Self
Defence, Chance,
Farmers
Fields, Boons
Pleasure, Boons
Covit & Common
Sense Discovered, all lying contiguous to each other in the Upper
Election District of Caroline County, being the same parcels sold to
Abraham Gump by Thomas B. Gurpen and described in the deed recorded in
Liber JR No.R Folio 396-399, excepting the tracts which were sold by
Abraham Gump in his lifetime to Noah Leward, and containing for the
remainder hereby sold to William B. Massey, eight hundred acres. |
BB:84 |
1853/07/26 |
| Caroline
County: William B. Massey
of Caroline County in the State of Maryland sells for $8,000.00 to
Greensbury W. Ridgely of Delaware County in the State of Pennsylvania
the tracts called White
Hall, Willente, Carmarthen,
Grubby
Neck, Grubby
Neck Addition, Buck
Range, Bite
the Biter, Self
Defence, Chance,
Farmers
Fields, Boons
Pleasure, Boons
Covit & Common
Sense Discovered, all lying contiguous to each other in the Upper
Election District of Caroline County, being the same tracts of land
bought by the said William B. Massey from Walter Massey as described in
a deed from Thomas B. Turpin to Abraham Gump recorded in Liber JR No.R
Folio 396-399. |
BB:96 |
1853/08/25 |
| Caroline
County: William B. Massey
of Caroline County in the State of Maryland buys for $182.00 from
Clinton Cook, trustee of Queen Anne's County, according to a decree of
Caroline County Circuit Court of Equity dated October 13, 1852, and
passed in the cause in said court between Complainants William and
Margaret A. Turner and Samuel Wells and Harriett A. Wells and other
Defendants wherein Clinton Cook was appointed Trustee with authority to
sell real estate mentioned in said cause, and William B. Massey being
the highest bidder, all that lot of ground of unknown acreage adjacent
to the Town of Greensborough in Caroline County on Choptank River on
which stands a large framed building known as the Lower Granary. |
BB:553 |
1855/06/12 |
| Caroline
County: William B. Massey
of Caroline County in the State of Maryland buys for $345.62 from
Thomas Jarrell and his wife Levina, also of Caroline County, a portion
of the tract called Ingrahms
Desire, lying in Caroline County near the Village of Greensborough
on the South side of the road leading from the village to Purnell's
[Blacksmith] Shop ... containing
four acres. |
BB:554 |
1855/06/13 |
| Caroline
County: William B. Massey
of Caroline County in the State of Maryland executes a bond in the
amount of $2,000.00 to the State of Maryland to secure his performance
as Bailiff, Constable, and [Tax] Collector in Caroline County.
Others bound at the same time: John A. Lee (Village of Greensborough)
Csma Lowe, and William Turner. |
CC:394 |
1857/05/06 |
| Caroline
County: William B. Massey
and William C. Meeds (of the late firm of Massey & Meeds) of
Caroline County in the State of Maryland buys for $242.00 from Thomas
Henry Porter and his wife Anna Matilda, also of Caroline County, a one
fifth interest in the tract called Golden
Grove lying in Caroline County on the East side of the Great
Choptank River in the first or Upper Election District of Caroline
County and adjoining the lands of Henry Roussett, Moses Coker and
others and containing three hundred and fifteen acres, but subject to
Clementia Porter's life interest to one third part thereof, being the
same land which Henry Roussett and his wife Augusta Roussett conveyed
by deed dated September 9, 1852, to Clementine Porter (to her a life
interest), Thomas Henry Porter, George Washington Porter, Sarah
Elizabeth Porter, Mary Catharine Porter, and Cornelius Porter (in fee
simple). |
CC:397 |
1857/05/14 |
| Caroline
County: William B. Massey
of Caroline County in the State of Maryland buys for $10.00 from Edwin
Wood and his wife Lydia all that part of the tract called Sylvester's
Discovery [see Valentine Green. Sylvesters Discovery, 200 acres. CA
Upper Choptank District Hundred, p. 10. MSA S 1161-3-4
Location: 1/4/5/46], lying in the first or Upper Election
District of Caroline County and adjoining the lands of Greenbury W.
Ridgely ... William B.
Massey is to distribute the proceeds of such sale as follows: Pay to
Morgan and Greely the sum of $95.85 plus the costs of execution and any
other costs that have accrued on their claim against Edwin Wood as a
debt of preference; to John Harriss, assignee of Dr. George Lacey,
$45.51; to James Gooding, $71.28; to S.Naneveckle, $36.11; to John T.
Langston, $82.76; to Alexander Ridgeway, $70.66; to Massey & Meed,
$13.81; to William B. Massey, $16.41; to William T. Chance, $26.53,
according to the force of several executions, now in the hands of John
L. McCombs and Alexander Knotts, Constables, against the aforesaid
Edwin Wood.... |
CC:495 |
1857/12/01 |
| Caroline
County: William B. Massey
of Caroline County in the State of Maryland buys for $800.00 from
Thomas Jarrell and his wife Livinia, also of Caroline County, all of
that parcel of land called Ingrahms
Desire located in the Upper Election District of Caroline County
which is contained within the following metes and bounds: Beginning at
the South East corner of the lot which the said Thomas Jarrell and
Livinia Jarrel sold to the said William B. Massey by deed dated May 23,
1855, and thence running in a Southerly direction along the lands of
Spencer Hitch, William C. Meeds and to the lands of John W. Simpson,
thence in a Westerly direction along the lands of the said Simpson to
the lines of the said Thomas Jarrell, thence in a Northerly direction
to the South East corner of the lot which the said Jarrell sold to the
said Massey, thence in an Easterly direction to the place of beginning,
containing twenty two acres, being a part of the same tract which
Richard Jarrell, late of Queen Anne's County, purchased at the sale of
the real estate of Samuel P. Dunning, late of Caroline County, by John
Dunning and William B. Massey,m executors of the said Samuel P.
Dunning, called and known by the name of Ingrahm's Desire. |
CC:522 |
1858/01/05 |
| Caroline
County: William B. Massey,
William C. Meeds and Alexander Ridgeway, all of Caroline County in the
State of Maryland, buy for $100.00 from William T. Chance and his wife
Lydia R. Chance, also of Caroline County, all that parcel lying in the
Town of Greensborough in the Upper Election District of Caroline County
which is enclosed within the following metes and bounds: Situated on
the East side of the new street running North and South and bounded on
the West by said street and [panting ?] the lot owned by Spencer
Keitch, bounded on the South by the new street running East and West,
and on the East by the lot belonging to Cornelius Comegys, and on the
North by the lots belonging to Harriett Turner and John F. Langston,
being the same parcel which the said William F. Chance obtained from
William H. Comegys and a part of the same parcel which William H.
Comegys obtained from William C. Meeds. |
RJ:29:91 |
1858/10/02 |
| Caroline
County: William B. Massey,
William C. Meeds and Alexander Ridgeway, all of Caroline County in the
State of Maryland, buy for $1051.47 from William T. Chance and his wife
Lydia R. Chance, also of Caroline County, all that parcel lying in the
Town of Greensborough in the Upper Election District of Caroline County
which is enclosed within the following metes and bounds: Situated on
the West side of the main street and bounded on the East by said
street, on the South by the premises known as the Parsonage Lot which
belongs to the trustees of the Methodist Episcopal Church and on the
West and North by lands belonging to Eliza Jane Reed (formerly Eliza
Jane Boon) in fee simple being the same lot which the said William T.
Chance obtained from Thomas S. [illegible] and Daniel R. Stewart and
wife by deed dated April 25, 1858, recorded in Liber ...No.BB Folio
495-497. |
RJ:29:92 |
1858/10/02 |
| Caroline
County: William B. Massey
of Caroline County in the State of Maryland, acting as trustee for
Edwin Wood and his wife Lydia A. Wood, sells for $625.00 to Denny
Rhodes for the benefit of the creditors of Edwin Wood and Lydia A.
Wood, all the 33-3/4 acre parcel located in the Upper Election District
of Caroline County. |
RJ:29:149 |
1859/01/13 |
| Caroline
County: William B. Massey,
William C. Meeds and Alexander Ridgeway, all of Caroline County in the
State of Maryland, sell for $1,100.00 to James T. Clark, also of
Caroline County, all the parcel located in the Town of Greensborough in
the Upper Election District of Caroline County and which is described
as follows: Situated on the West side of the main street and bounded on
the East by said street, on the South by the premises known as the
Parsonage Lot, belonging to the trustees of the Methodist Episcopal
Church, on the West and North by lands belonging to Eliza Jane Reed
(formerly Eliza Jane Boon) in fee simple being the same parcel which
the said William B. Massey, William C. Meeds and Alexander Ridgeway
obtained from William T. Chance and wife. |
RJ:29:166 |
1859/01/31 |
| Caroline
County: William B. Massey
and James Merrick, both of Caroline County in the State of Maryland,
buy for $800.00 from Richard M. Legg and his wife Mary, also of
Caroline County, all the parcels of land located in the Upper Election
District of Caroline County on the road leading from Greensborough to
Bridgetown, being the same property purchased by the said Richard M.
Legg from DoctorHenry C. Comegys and his wife Helen A Comegys and John
W. Boon, all of Caroline County, and which is described in the deed
November 5, 1859, provided that Richard M. Legg and wife Mary pay the
$800.00 purchase price in stages, $200.00 with legal interest from
November 7, 1859 on or before January 1, 1861; $200.00 as above on or
before January 1, 1862, $200.00 as above on or before January 1, 1863,
and $200.00 as above on or before January 1, 1864. Should default
occur, William B. Massey and James Merrick may sell the mortgaged
premises at public auction. |
RJ:29:309 |
1859/11/16 |
| Caroline
County: William B. Massey
of Caroline County in the State of Maryland buys for $5,000.00 from
John W. Boon, also of Caroline County, the tract called Marblehead,
located in the Upper Election District of Caroline County on the public
road leading from Greensborough to Purnell's [Blacksmith] Shop, and on
which the late John Boon resided and of which he died seized,
consisting of several tracts described in the following deeds:
Surveyors Certificated dated May 15, 1811 and recorded in Liber JR
No.B, Folio 292; Deed of sale from Salaman Swiford and wife to John
Boon dated November 6, 1813 and recorded in Liber JR No.L Folio 70
& 71; Deed of sale from Jacob Boon to John Boon recorded in Liber
JR No.Q, Folio 276 & 277; Deed of sale from Thomas McCutcheon to
Alexander Saleon dated October 18, 1797 and recorded in the Land
records of Caroline County, exclusive of the tract conveyed by deed
from John Boon, deceased, to John Hawley of E. dated September 21,
1825, the whole being known by the name Mansion Farm as held, used and
occupied by the late John Boon in his lifetime and to the time of his
death, containing four hundred and ninety acres and one rood. |
RJ:29:329 |
1859/12/07 |
| Caroline
County: William B. Massey
of Caroline County in the State of Maryland buys for $675.00 from John
T. Langston and wife Charlotte A. Langston, also of Caroline County,
the parcel of land located in the Upper Election District of Caroline
County in the Town of Greensborough that is now occupied by Doctor H.C.
Comegys, being the same property that was bought by Francis A. Ellis,
trustee of the Bayne heirs. |
RJ:29:332 |
1859/12/28 |
| Caroline
County: William B. Massey
of Caroline County in the State of Maryland buys for $350.00 from John
T. Langston, also of Caroline County, the parcel of land lying in the
Upper Election District of Caroline County near the Village of
Greensborough on the West side of the County Road leading from
Greensborough to the Village of Hillsborough and adjoining the lands of
H.R.Staley, containing five acres; and also another parcel located in
the same election district on the East side of the Aforesaid County
Road and running back and binding on the Choptank River adjoining the
lands of H.R. Staley and T.T. Martin & brother, containing ten
acres, both tracts being part of the lands which the said John T.
Langston brought from W.R. Sulley, known as part of the Chilcott Land,
which was bought by the said Sulley from William H. Downes. |
RJ:29:383 |
1860/03/12 |
| Caroline
County: William B. Massey
of Caroline County in the State of Maryland buys for $668.99 from
Thomas Jarrell, also of Caroline County, which amount is owed by Thomas
Jarrell to William B. Massey, all of the several parcels lying in
Caroline County, known as Ingrahm's
Desire, Taylorton, Burs Point, and Hickory Ridge, together being
the farm on which Thomas Jarrell now resides, as well as another parcel
lying in the Upper Election District of Caroline County known as
Hickory Ridge [II ? - GL,III, ed.]; also Oak Ridge Partnership and
Clark's Farm, all together containing one hundred and forty nine and a
half acres; and also the following goods and chattels: ... The present
sale becomes null and void if Thomas Jarrell pays his debt of $668.99
to William B. Massey by September 1, 1860. |
RJ:29:472 |
1860/08/16 |
| Caroline
County: William B. Massey, William C. Meeds and
Alexander Ridgeway, all of Caroline County in the State of Maryland,
sell for $130.00 to Richard H. Comegys, also of Caroline County, all
that parcel which is located in the Upper Election District of Caroline
County as follows: Situated on the new street recently opened in the Town of
Greensborough and bounded on the West by one of the said new streets
and on the South by the other new street, on the East by a lot of
ground belonging to Cornelius Comegys, and on the North by the lands of
Harriett Turner and others in fee simple, being the same lot which the
said William B. Massey, William C. Meed and Alexander Ridgeway obtained
from William T. Chance and wife and which the said William T. Chance
obtained from William N. Comegys and wife. |
RJ:29:578 |
1861/03/04 |
| Caroline
County: Walter Massey, of
Caroline County in the State of Maryland and trustee for the sale of
lands in the case of Wm. B. Massey vs. Mary Dukes and others, takes
possession with his wife Catherine V. Massey of the tract called Marblehead
lying a few miles from the town of Greensborough and containing four
hundred and ninety acres and described in a deed dated March 19, 1842,
from James Dukes & wife, James C. Reyner & wife, Mathias Grange
& wife, Enoch Grange & wife and Eliza Jane Boon to Helene
Augusta Boon and John Nicholas Boon. |
RJ:30:38 |
1862/02/10 |
| Caroline
County: William B. Massey of Caroline County in the State of Maryland
buys for $6,000.00 from Walter Massey and his wife
Catherine V. Massey, both of Caroline
County, all that tract called Marblehead
lying in Caroline County and described by the deed dated March 19, 1842
from James Dukes &
wife, James C. Reyner & wife, Mathias Grange & wife, Enoch
Grange & wife and Eliza Jane Boon to Helene Augusta Boon and John
Nicholas Boon. |
RJ:30:38 |
1862/02/10 |
| Caroline
County: William B. Massey
of Caroline County in the State of Maryland buys for $289.93 from Ezra
M. Hitch and his wife Mary E. Hitch all that tract located in Caroline
County in Tuckahoe Neck that is called Oxenhams Pleasure containing one
hundred and eighteen acres and also the two slaves Moses Hart and Aaron
Hart, provided that if the said Ezra M. Hitch shall pay on or before
February 14, 1864, the said sum of $289.93 with interest thereon from
January 12, 1863, then this mortgage shall become void; should default
occur, then William B. Massey is hereby authorized to sell the
referenced land and slaves at public auction with appropriate notice. |
RJ:30:222 |
1863/02/14 |
| Caroline
County: William B.Massey of
Caroline County in the State of Maryland in order to secure a debt of
$3,000.00 owed by James M. Whitby and
his wife Catharine Whitby, also of Caroline County, executes a mortgage
of contingent sale of their tract lying in Caroline County on the South
side of the main road leading from the Town of Greensborough to
Purnell's [Blacksmith] Shop adjoining the lands of the aforesaid
William B. Massey on the West, by William Delahay on the East, by
Doctor H. Rousett on the South, and containing two hundred and forty
acres, whereon the said James M. Whitby now resides, being the same
land and premises devised to the said James M. Whitby by his father
Nathan Whitby and by virtue of his Last Will and Testament, dated July
9, 1850, excepting the enclosed graveyard, and enrolled in the Registry
of Orphans Court of Caroline County, dated August 13, 1850. |
RJ:30:266 |
1863/04/21 |
| Caroline
County: William B. Massey
of Caroline County in the State of Maryland assigns to James Merrick
the mortgage executed by Richard M. Legg and his wife Mary J. Legg to
sell for $800.00 and accumulated interest to William B. Massey and
James Merrick the land described in Liber RJ No.29, Folio 309 and dated November 16, 1859, unless Richard M.
Legg and his wife Mary J. Legg repay the $800.00 debt with interest.
[That is to say: James Merrick now has full control of the mortgage and
its remedies - GL,III, ed.] |
RJ:30:464 |
1864/01/15 |
| Caroline
County: William B. Massey
and William C. Meeds, both of Caroline County in the State of Maryland,
sell for $300.00 to George W. Porter, also of Caroline County, all that
tract called Golden
Grove, lying in the Upper Election District of Caroline County on
the East side of the Great Choptank River and adjoining the lands of
[illegible] Rousett, Moses Coker and others and containing three
hundred and fifteen acres in fee simple, subject to Clementine Porter's
life interest to one third part thereof, being the same land which
Henry Rousett and his wife Augusta Rousett conveyed be deed dated
September 19, 1852, to Clementine Porter (to her a life interest)
Thomas Henry Porter, George Washington Porter, Sarah Elizabeth Porter,
Mary Catherine Porter, and Ermaline Porter in fee simple. |
RJ:30:532 |
1864/03/22 |
| Caroline
County: William B. Massey
of Caroline County in the State of Maryland and Executor of Thomas
Wyatt, late of Caroline County and who died some time in the year 1861,
sells for $850.00 at public auction, duly noticed, to Mary E. Thawley,
wife of George W. Thawley, Margaret J. Wyatt and August F. Harris, wife
of Thomas Harris, all that farm or tract lying in the Upper Election
District of Caroline County on the West side of the main road leading
from Greensborough to the Castle Hall School House and adjoining the
lands of Thomas C. Wyatt, Dr. Alexander Hardcastle and Thomas O.
Culbeth and others commonly called Fern
Ridge Corrected, being the same land whereon the said Thomas Wyatt
resided at the time of his death and containing one hundred and forty
eight acres. |
JJ:31:94 |
1864/11/01 |
| Caroline
County: William B. Massey
of the Town of Greensborough in Caroline County in the State of
Maryland, executor of the Last Will and Testament of Thomas Wyatt, late
of Caroline County, sells for $800.00 to Thomas C. Wyatt all that tract
of land (widow's dower excepted) whereon the said Thomas C. Wyatt now
resides, lying in the Upper Election District of Caroline County and
adjoining the lands of George W. Kugler, Gorden Kinnamon, Thomas Jones
and others, commonly known as the Home farm of the said Thomas Wyatt,
deceased, or Golden
Rod Ridge, containing 100 acres. |
JJ:31:104 |
1864/11/22 |
| Caroline
County: William B. Massey
and his wife Elizabeth A. Massey of Caroline County sell for $600.00 to
Walter Massey, also of Caroline County, all of his undivided interest
being the one half in the house and garden by which the said Walter
Massey now occupies, adjoining the property of Elizabeth Rawlings, Mary
Davis, and others which descended to the said William B. Massey and
Walter Massey by the death of our mother Elizabeth Roe and which the
said Elizabeth Roe purchased from William Roe. |
JJ:32:242 |
1867/06/17 |
|
| William F. Massey |
County
|
Lib.:No.:Fol.
|
Date
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| Queen
Anne's County: William F.
Massey of Queen Anne's County in the State of Maryland sells for
$952.25 to John H. Evans, also of Kent County, all that 47+ acre lot of
woodland formerly belonging to the Kinsley Farm, of which Josiah
Massey, late of Queen Anne's County died possessed, which is described
in a cause in the Circuit Court of Queen Anne's County in Equity,
entitled, "William F. Massey vs. Mary Jane Massey and heirs." |
SED:2:532 |
1866/09/26 |
| Queen
Anne's County: John B.
Brown, (trustee appointed by the Circuit Court of Queen Anne's County
in Equity in the case of William F. Massey vs. Mary Jane Massey and
others) William Elliott & wife Sarah A. Elliott, and James R.
Burris & wife Susan Burris, all of Queen Anne's County in the State
of Maryland, sell Bradford and Elliotts
Addition for $3,567.80 to William Elliott and James R.
Burris, who have since sold the land to Cloudsbury H. Clark in fee
simple. These lands lie in Queen Anne's County and adjoin the lands of
Richard Skinner and Ezekiel F. Sharsley and others. |
SED:3:336 |
1868/01/10 |
|
| William H. Mace |
County
|
Lib.:No.:Fol.
|
Date
|
| Queen
Anne's County: John Brown & David H. Crane, commissioners
appointed by the Circuit Court of Queen Anne's County to divide the
real estate of John Hendris, deceased, and Mary Ann Baker and George
Vickers, executors of Samuel E. Baker, late of Kent County, deceased,
sell to William H. Mace, Charles R.
Mace, John H. Mace, Carville V. Mace, and Sophia V. Mace, all of
Baltimore County, Franklin Mace of Montgomery County, Ann C.Jones, wife
of T.P. Jones of Cecil County, and Alfred Mace of Baltimore City, lands
which formerly belonged to Anna Maria Brice, late of Queen Anne's
County, and which descended to sundry children and heirs, and which
were petitioned to be divided by Thomas Walker, but could not
economically be so distributed among the said heirs, which were then
sold to a purchaser, the said John Hendris, who died intestate without
having paid the purchase price, followed by Samuel E. Baker, who did
manage to pay his bid price after public auction and who subsequently
sold the lands to Samuel V. Mace. The present deed solemnifies this
complex series of transactions. The land, called Tullys
Lot, contains 247+ acres (less 4 acres previously sold) |
SED:3:346 |
1868/01/17 |
| Queen
Anne's County: William H. Mace and his wife Henrietta M. Mace,
Charles R. Mace, John H. Mace, Carville V. Mace, and Sophia V. Mace,
all of Baltimore County in the State of Maryland, Alford Mace of
Baltimore City, Franklin Mace and his wife Frances R. Mace, both of
Montgomery County, and Thomas S. Jones and his wife Ann C. Jones, both
of Cecil County, sell for $3,500.00 to Rhoda Riley (wife of Joseph
Riley) the tract called Tully's
Lot contains 247+ acres. [See Liber
SED No.3, Folio 346.] |
SED:3:349 |
1868/01/17 |
|
| William I. Massey |
County
|
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|
Date
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| Worcester
County: Purnell Massey and
his wife Nancy Massey, both of Worcester County in the State of
Maryland sell for $190.00 to William I. Massey, also of Worcester
County, the lands which Purnell Massey purchased from Major Hastings,
James Massey and Fanney (Fanny) Massey, wife of James Massey, by a deed
dated October 24, 1844, [see Liber
GMH
No.7, Folio 502] it being the property that formerly belonged to
John Hill, containing nineteen acres and called Smith's
Industry, also two acres called Poplar
Neck, also all that parcel adjoining the aforesaid land and on the
North side of said land and on the South side of a road running between
the said land and the said Purnell Massey's farm, the said road leading
to Saint Martin's Church, it being a part of the land (Freeman's
Lot) that the said Purnell Massey purchased from Err Truitt,
containing about fifteen or twenty acres [see Liber
AY, Folio 232]. |
EDM:2:212 |
1848/12/22 |
|
| William N. Massey |
County
|
Lib.:No.:Fol.
|
Date
|
| Worcester
County: William N. Massey
and his wife Mary Grace Massey, of Worcester County in the State of
Maryland, sell for $400.00 to George W. Bishop, also of Worcester
County, a house and lot in the Village of Lindseyville, being a part of
the tract called Cart Wheel, containing about one acre. |
WET:1:219 |
1858/07/15 |
|
| William Randolph
Massey |
County
|
Lib.:No.:Fol.
|
Date
|
| Queen
Anne's County: William
R.Massey of Baltimore County in the State of Maryland agrees to
relinquish his one sixth moiety in all the lands in Queen Anne's and
Kent counties that he inherited from Joshua W. Massey in exchange for
$1,000.00 in cash (less any money owed by William R. Massey to Pamela
L. Massey at the time of settlement on the first of January next) and
the transfer of slaves Robert and Shadrach paid to him by Pamela L.
Massey of the City of Baltimore. The lands are: Bath,
Friendship Manors, Chance, White Oak, Adventure, and Browne's Purchase,
which Joshua W. Massey purchased from James Barr of Kent County. |
JT:1:143 |
1834/07/21 |
| Queen
Anne's County: William R.
Massey of the City and County of Baltimore, indebted to Henry Bruce to
the extent of $678.06, mortgages as security all the lands inherited
from Joshua W. Massey lying on the Eastern Shore of Maryland to Henry
Bruce, said conveyance to be null and void if Mr. Massey satisfies the
debt within one month from the present date. |
JT:1:127 |
1835/06/09 |
| Queen
Anne's County: William R.
Massey of the City of Baltimore in the State of Maryland sells for
$50.00 to John Palmer the slave named Robert, who is now in the
possession of Col. John Tilghman, together with all the wages due for
the said Robert and not paid at the time of the execution of this deed.
|
JT:2:101 |
1836/07/01 |
| Queen
Anne's County: William R.
Massey and wife Emily Ann of the Town of Alexandria, District of
Columbia, being indebted to [difficult reading ahead !] A.C. Lazonas,
John H. Jannoy, Grupper & Dean - Merchants [illegible] George L.
Bumford of George Town, Crawford of McKim, George & Mayes, Mason
& Hanlen, George C. Rollins, merchants of Baltimore and Bank of
Potomac Alexandria [illegible words] amounting to about $2,800.00 which
William R. Massey desires to pay to his creditors, through a deed of
trust to Christopher Neale, one sixth of his equity in the following
lands: Friendship, Bath,
Manor's Chance, White Oak, Spry's
Adventure, [illegible name] Purchase, containing in all about 2,600
acres in Queen Anne's and Kent counties, all of which belonged to his
father, the late Joshua W. Massey of Queen Anne's County, subject first
to the dower right of Pamela L. Massey, widow of Joshua W. Massey, and
also to a previous mortgage made and executed by William R. Massey to
Joseph [illegible surname] of Baltimore for $1,000 or
thereabouts. Should William R. Massey [somehow] repay the stated
debt, then this indenture becomes null and void. If he defaults,
then Christopher Neale is entitled to sell the aforesaid listed tracts
piecemeal for cash until the debt is satisfied. |
JT:2:623 |
1839/03/01 |
Queen
Anne's County: Ebenezer T.
Massey of Kent County in the State of Maryland buys for $703.37 from
Israel Griffith of the City of Baltimore the mortgage deed of William
R. Massey of Spring Hill in the State of Mississippi recorded in Liber
JT No.2 Folio 235, 236 & 237 and dated September 4, 1837. By
this deed Ebenezer T. Massey becomes the owner of any and all payments
made by William R. Massey to satisfy the referenced deed of mortgage.
|
JT:3:198 |
1841/01/13 |
Queen
Anne's County: A commission
is set up to divide the lands of the late Joshua W. Massey of Queen
Anne's County in the State of Maryland and is made up of the following
men: Jesse Knock, William H. Foster, Arthur E. Sudler, James Giant
[maybe Skint], and Edward Coppage, all of Queen Anne's County.
The lands at issue are: Friendship, Maynors Chance, Irish Farm etc. The
heirs of Joshua W. Massey are: William R. Massey, James H. Massey,
Marietta I. Dobbs (wife of Alexander Dobbs, formerly Marietta Massey)
Joseph A. Massey, Thomas C. Massey, Benjamin A. Massey and Pamela L.
Massey, his widow. Thomas C. Massey, who was a minor, initiated
the formation of this commission in order properly to divide the lands
of Joshua W. Massey. ...
They thereupon scheduled
and advertised at public sale at Dixon's Tavern in Queen Anne's County,
all of the above lands, excepting the dower right of Pamela L.
Massey. Ebenezer T. Massey subsequently became the highest bidder
for Friendship; James [illegible surname] of Lots No.'s 2 & 3; Lot
No.4, being mainly woodland, was divided among Lots No.'s 1, 2 & 3
[... unintelligible negotiations following...]. |
JT:4:498 |
1845/08/19 |
| Queen
Anne's County: A commission
described in Liber
JT No.4 Folio 498 evaluated and then sold at public auction the
lands of the late Joshua W. Massey of Queen Anne's County in the State
of Maryland. The present deed describes the sale and lands conveyed to
James Merrick, also of Queen Anne's County. However, William R.
Massey has by now alienated all his individual interest in his father's
estate to Mssrs. [Perma] and Fisher of the City of Baltimore; James H.
Massey has alienated all his interest to Ebenezer T. Massey of Kent
County; and Thomas E. Massey is still a minor. |
JT:5:186 |
1847/02/09 |
| Queen
Anne's County: Ebenezer T.
Massey of Kent County in the State of Maryland buys for $400.00 from
John McCormick and wife Jane Ann McCormick of Alexandria in the State
of Virginia,a portion of the lands devised to William R. Massey which
he subsequently sold to Henry Bruce, and thence from Bruce to John
McCormick, which lands are Maynor's Chance, Tilghman's Friendship, Collins
Range and Harriss's
Rambles. |
JT:5:449 |
1848/05/09 |
|
| William S. Massey |
County
|
Lib.:No.:Fol.
|
Date
|
| Worcester
County: William S. Massey
of Worcester County in the State of Maryland buys for $264.00 from
Laban J. Taylor and his wife Sally Taylor, also of Worcester county,
the tract of land called Hudson's
Endeavor. |
WET:3:399 |
1863/04/21 |
| Worcester
County: William S. Massey
and his wife Mary Ann Massey of Worcester County in the State of
Maryland sell for $62.50 to Francis E. Fisher, also of Worcester
County, all the land that William S. Massey bought from Nancy C.
Massey, given to her by the Will of Purnell Massey, deceased, lying
near the lands of Perry Rodney and John S. Purnell of Worcester county,
containing half an acre, by deed from Nancy C. Massey to Mary Ann
Massey dated December 18, 1863, [and recorded in Liber
GHR
No.1, Folio 33]. |
GHR:3:33 |
1867/10/05 |
| Worcester
County: William S. Massey
and his wife Mary Ann Massey, both of Worcester County in the State of
Maryland, in order to secure a debt of $180.00, sell to their creditor
James Robins Bunting, the following goods and chattels: One sorrel
horse, blaze face and one Morgan horse, provided that if the said James
Robins Bunting should pay to the said William S. Massey the sum of one
hundred and eighty dollars and legal interest thereon on or before the
first day of October, 1869, then these presents shall be void. |
GHR:3:211 |
1868/03/10 |
|
| William W. Mace |
County
|
Lib.:No.:Fol.
|
Date
|
| Dorchester
County: William W. Mace and
his wife Ennie Mace, both of Dorchester County in the State of
Maryland, sell for $1,400.00 to Lazarus Powell, also of Dorchester
County, 93 acres of the parcel called Tubmans
Resolution ... being a
part of the land conveyed by John E. Applegate and his wife Ann to the
said William W. Mace and his wife Annie by deed dated November 20, 1856. |
FJH:5:425 |
1863/09/21 |
| Dorchester
County: William W. Mace of
Dorchester County in the State of Maryland buys for $2,000.00 from John
C. Stapleford of Baltimore City 260 acres in several tracts, among them
one called Back Range (excepting fifteen acres deeded to Ezekiel
Keene) ... a second
part ... containing two
hundred and thirteen and a half acres. Two more tracts: Cow Pasture,
with eighteen acres; and half of a tract called Rod Island, the whole
forty five acres in fee simple. |
FJH:5:672 |
1864/11/14 |
| Dorchester
County: William W. Mace of
Dorchester County in the State of Maryland buys for $225.00 from John
C. Staplefort, also of Dorchester County, 56 acres of the tract called
Brown's Folly, lying in Dorchester County (except what is to the East
of the County Road leading from the Little Black Water Bridge to
Cambridge). |
FJH:6:323 |
1866/03/07 |
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