County

Lib:No.:Fol.

Date

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

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, Joshua W.'s 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

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

County

Lib.:No.:Fol.

Date

Queen Anne's County: Benjamin Massey of Kent County in Maryland buys back for £586, 6/, 8p (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: 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 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 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 Lambdin 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[ambdin] 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

County

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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 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

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

DD:5:54

TW:1:194

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 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 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, 9/, and 4p 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 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, 10/, 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
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1803/01/01

Queen Anne's County: Hemsley Massey of Queen Anne's County in Maryland for £1,500 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. 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

County

Lib.:No.:Fol.

Date

Cecil County: Daniel Toas is the father of John Toas and Sarah Toas.  Sarah Toas married Peter Massey.

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

County

Lib.:No.:Fol.

Date

Kent County: Joseph Massey and Ebenezer Massey patent 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

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 black 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 black) 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

County

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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 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, 16/ and 7p, 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

County

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Date

Kent County: Elijah Massey, farmer, of Kent County in Maryland leases for £15 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 (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/ 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 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 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

County

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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 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/ 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

County

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Date

Kent County: Lewis Inry and Elizabeth (nee Massey) Inry of Kent County in Maryland buy for an additional £16, 2/ and 6p (over £68, 5/, 6p 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

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

County

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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

County

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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

County

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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 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

County

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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

County

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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

County

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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 Queen 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.

Notes The plat was inverted 180 degrees to make it more readable, so the letters below are upside down on the surveyor's plat. A. The place of beginning, on the out lines of the whole. B. A post planted at the corner of Hemsley Massey's land. C. A post standing South 7-3/4 degrees East 19 perches from the post at the corner of Hemsley Massey's land, said stone being the place of beginning of the division between James Massey & Joshua Massey. D. A stone standing at the end of the division line South 80-1/2 degrees West from the first stone.

RT:3:314

1797/10/28

Queen Anne's County: James Massey, farmer of Queen Anne'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, 10/ 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 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. 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.

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

RT:H:45

RT:K:321