Massey records in the Grantee/Grantor Index Files for Cecil County, Maryland

Massey Land Records 1658-1867 for Cecil County, Maryland

Date

Parcel

1658/01/01

Grantor	Grantee	Parcel	Acreage	Lib:No:Fol	Type
Thomas Cornewalleys		Verina	1,000	Q:418	Patent

1658 - Verina, 1000 Acres; Thomas Cornewalleys Patent

1662/01/01

Grantor	Grantee	Parcel	Acreage	Lib:No:Fol	Type
Augustine Herman		Bohemia Mannor	4,000	5:109 4:572	Patent

1662: Bohemia Mannor, 4,000 acres - Developer/Owner: Augustine Herman

There are two other tracts like this, both by Augustine Herman, in 1676 and 1682.
See also, the Labadie Tract.

1672/01/01

Grantor	Grantee	Parcel	Acreage	Lib:No:Fol	Type
George Wilson		Slipe	50	14:541	Patent

1672 - Slipe, 50 Acres; George Wilson Patent - PR 14, p. 541

1674/08/12

Grantor	Grantee	Parcel	Acreage	Lib:No:Fol	Type
Richard Lee and wife Joane	Thomas Massey	Verina	125	1:76	Deed

August 12, 1674: Thomas Masie (Massey), planter of Cecil County in Maryland buys for 7,000 pounds of tobacco from Richard Lee, joiner, also of Cecil County, a 125 acre portion of the tract called Verina, lying on the South side of Sassafras River in Cecil County, the bounds and metes of which are: Beginning at a marked cedar tree being the first bounded tree of a parcel of land called The Slipe now in the possession of William Southbee and running South and by West to a marked chestnut tree thirty six perches, and from the said chestnut tree South [one] hundred and sixty four perches to a marked red oak (the trees already marked along the said line not to be altered by any other compass) and from the said oak running East and by North a creek called Corwalleyes Creek bounding on the said creek and running to the mouth of it to a marked red oak upon a point Northerly and from the said oak West to the first bounded cedar, containing by estimation one hundred twenty five acres. George Wilson or his heirs hold the land patent of Verina; and Thomas Masie (Massey) is hereby cleared from the yearly payment of 2/- 6p to George Wilson or his heirs. Witnesses: William Southbee and Richard Thorneton.

[Note: the 1,000 acre parcel called Verina is actually on the South side of the Sassafras River and is therefore in Kent County, where it was patented by Thomas Cornewalleys in 1658; see Patent Record Q, p.418 - On the other hand, The 50-acre tract called Slipe was indeed patented by George Wilson in 1672, and its patent is recorded in Cecil County - see Patent Record 14, p.541 - GL,III, ed.]

1674/08/12

Grantor	Grantee	Parcel	Acreage	Lib:No:Fol	Type
Richard Lee	Thomas Massey	Verina	125	1:77	Bond

August 12, 1674: Richard Lee, joiner of Cecil County in Maryland, is bound to Thomas Masie (Massey), planter, also of Cecil County, in the amount of 12,000 pounds of good sound and merchantable tobacco in cask to be well and truly paid by the said Richard Lee or his heirs upon demand after October 10, 1674, in some convenient place in Cecil County. The condition of the above cited obligation is that if the said Richard Lee does give a good assurance and firmly make over his lands & plantation [Verina] being above one hundred and twenty five acres, etc. within three months from the present date of August 12, 1674, then the above said obligation is to be null and void. Witnesses: John Harnett and Jeffrey Thomson.

1676/01/01

Grantor	Grantee	Parcel	Acreage	Lib:No:Fol	Type
Augustine Herman		Bohemia Manor	6,000	19:269	Certificate

1676: Bohemia Manor, 6,000 acres - Developer/Owner: Augustine Herman, Certificate

There are two other tracts like this, both by Augustine Herman, in 1662 and 1682.

1678/07/20

Grantor	Grantee	Parcel	Acreage	Lib:No:Fol	Type
William Southbee	Thomas Massey	Verina & The Slipe	125 & 50	1:108	Deed

July 20, 1678: Thomas Masie (Massey), planter of Cecil County in Maryland, buys for 12,000 pounds of tobacco from William Southbee of Talbot County a plantation, part of a tract called Verina, which was sold by George Wilson, now deceased, to William Southsbe (Southbee), late of Talbot County, and which is located on the South side of Sassafras River in Cecil County and which is contained within the following metes and bounds: Beginning at a marked cedar tree between two creeks near the landing to the said plantation, being the first bounded tree of a parcel of land called The Slipe and running South and by West to a marked chestnut tree thirty six perches bounding on the said chestnut tree and running South from the said chestnut tree three hundred sixty four perches (the trees being already marked along the said line not to be altered by any other compass) to a marked red oak, and from the said oak running West and by South to a marked white oak being a corner tree at the end of the long line of the said Wilson's tract of land, and from the said white oak running North East four hundred perches to the first bounded tree, containing one hundred twenty five acres. George Wilson or his heirs hold the land patent of Verina; and Thomas Masie (Massey) is hereby cleared from the yearly payment of 2/- 6p to George Wilson or his heirs. The fifty acre parcel called The Slipe now being augmented to the present transaction has the following metes and bounds: Beginning at the aforesaid cedar and running North and West across the neck from the said cedar sixty perches unto a marked cedar standing on a point at the mouth of the Island Branch bounding on said cedar by a line drawn South West and by West forty perches unto a marked oak standing on a point by the side of the said island Branch bounding on the said oak and so running South and by West until it shall intersect the aforesaid long line North North East of South South West as appears by a patent. Witnesses: Richard Thorneton and Abraham Strand; and Justices of the Peace Augustine Harman and William Pearce.

1679/01/01

Grantor	Grantee	Parcel	Acreage	Lib:No:Fol	Type
Daniel Carnell		Yorkeshire	500	CB:2:424 20:247	Patent

1679: Yorkeshire, 500 acres - Developer/Owner: Daniel Carnell, Patent

There is another tract with a similar name, but by Richard Bennett.

1682/01/01

Grantor	Grantee	Parcel	Acreage	Lib:No:Fol	Type
Augustine Herman		Bohemia Manor	6,000	CB:3:15 21:361	Patent

1682: Bohemia Manor, 6,000 acres - Developer/Owner: Augustine Herman, Patent

There are two other tracts like this, both by Augustine Herman, in 1662 and 1676.

1683/01/01

Grantor	Grantee	Parcel	Acreage	Lib:No:Fol	Type
Richard Peacock		Sarahs Joynture	600	CB:3:159	Patent

1683: Sarahs Joynture, 600 Acres; Richard Peacock, Patent

There is another similar tract: but by Thomas Reynolds.

1683/01/01

Grantor	Grantee	Parcel	Acreage	Lib:No:Fol	Type
James Murphy		Skelton	500	CB:3:162	Patent

1683: Skelton, 500 Acres; James Murphy, Patent

1683/01/01

Grantor	Grantee	Parcel	Acreage	Lib:No:Fol	Type
Thomas Vaughan		Stockton	500	CB:3:160	Patent

1683: Stockton, 500 Acres; Thomas Vaughan Patent - PR CB 3, p. 160

1684/01/01

1684: The Labadie Tract, deeded by Augustine Herman to the Labodists; see the article by E. N. Vallandigham of New York, "Lord of Bohemia Manor," reprinted on page 37 of Virginia Cartography, by P. Lee Phillips, City of Washington, published by the Smithsonian Institution in 1896 and placed online by Google Books. Here is the text of the article:

"In the New York Sun of October 23, 1892, an article entitled "Lord of Bohemia Manor," gives the most exhaustive account of Herman, which the editor of that paper has kindly permitted me to republish. The author, E. N. Vallandigham of New York, is indebted to Lednum's Rise of Methodism in America, and Vincent's History of Delaware, for considerable information.

LORD OF BOHEMIA MANOR.

Augustine Herman, an Early Hero of New York and Maryland.
Story of a Seventeenth Century Merchant who became a Great Landowner
and Baron on the Delaware Peninsula.

"Down on the west side of Pearl street, at or near the corner of Pine, there stood some 250 years ago a fine old-fashioned mansion with orchard and gardens, and in this mansion dwelt the man who was probably the first person to become a legally naturalized citizen of this country. He was not of Dutch blood, though he became one of the "Nine Men " who
constituted the council to the Governor of New Netherlands. Augustine Herman was the name of this alien who helped to govern the Dutch colony. He was a Bohemian, born in Prague, now almost two and three-quarter centuries ago. Augustine Herman was a strenuous character of broad grasp, of bold conception, of enormous energy, and of marvellous courage. He was all his life in some sort a merchant, yet he came to be a great land-holder, and he was one of the few Americans to bear a title and to be recognized as lord of the manor. Herman is forgotten as a New Yorker, though his early services were such as to indicate that he was a man of considerable importance during his residence here, but he is a local hero in the region which he named in memory of his birthplace, Bohemia Manor. He is credited by some with having been the "first beginner of the Virginia tobacco trade," and with having successfully experimented in indigo culture near this city. He was, besides, a man of education, a surveyor by profession, a skilled draughtsman, and a trusted diplomat.

"When Peter Stuyvesant found Lord Baltimore laying claim to the Dutch possessions on the Delaware he sent Herman and Resolved (or Rosevelt) Waldron to St. Mary's, in Maryland, in order that some sort of treaty might be made with the Englishman. Herman went as the diplomat, Waldron as his interpreter. Herman was so pleased with what he saw of Lord Baltimore's possessions that he wrote to say that if Lord Baltimore would grant him a manor he would make for his Lordship a map of Maryland. Lord Baltimore assented to this, and if Herman could have really made Lord Baltimore the proprietor of all that was included in Herman's map, the price which was paid, 20,000 acres of the finest land between Delaware and Chesapeake bays, would have been sufficiently small. Herman's map included not only all of Maryland as it now is, but also all of Delaware and a part of Pennsylvania. It was this map, doubtless, that figured on Lord Baltimore's side in the conflict over the survey of Mason and Dixon's line.

"The noble estate that Herman received for this feat in map-making lay in Cecil County, Maryland, and New Castle County, Delaware. It is still called Bohemia Manor, and when people in the northerly part of the peninsula speak of "the manor " they mean the territory over which Herman ruled. Here Herman built a great house, carried on a large trade with the Indians, dabbled in affairs of State, and exercised a wide hospitality. Here, too, he led a wretched life with a shrewish second wife. Here is his tomb, and one may still see traces of the manor house and the deer park hard by. Herman, two of his sons, a grandson, a greatgrandson, and two great-great-grandsons were successively lords of Bohemia Manor. Of the last two lords of the manor, one was killed by a fall from his horse, and the other was an idiot, who was wont to insist upon his title, and drawing a circle about himself in the soil of his domain, would forbid the approach within its circumference of any who denied his lordship. The heirs fell to quarrelling over the estate, and the legal existence of Bohemia Manor ended 128 years after its founding by Augustine Herman.

"Augustine was the only strikingly forceful man of the line. His story reads like a romance, but at this distance of time it is hard to sift out truth from fiction, for the man so impressed those about him that all sorts of wonderful legends touching his adventures have come down in local history. There are conflicting traditions as to the reasons for Herman's desertion of New York. One story is that he and Stuyvesant quarrelled over the map made for Lord Baltimore. Another is that the two were rivals in love, and that Herman was successful. The latter is hardly true, for Herman was married in 1651, and for nearly ten years afterward he was at times employed in various important missions by the Dutch authorities. He is known to have passed through some sort of bankruptcy proceedings in New York, and possibly out of this fact grew the most astonishing of all the stories preserved in the local traditions of Bohemia Manor.

"According to this story, Herman returned to New York, some time after his settlement in Maryland, to find his estate in this city seized by a squatter, and when Herman protested he was himself placed under arrest. He feigned insanity, the story goes, and refused to be parted from the horse which he had ridden all the way from Bohemia Manor. Accordingly he was bidden to ride his horse to the second story of a stone warehouse, where he and the horse were securely locked in. But when all his enemies had departed, Herman mounted his horse and rode straight at the closed window of his prison. Horse and man went through the window and landed safe on the stones below, but with such force that blood gushed from the nostrils of the horse. The escaping prisoner then rode straight to the Hudson, swam his horse to the Jersey shore, and in due time arrived at Bohemia Manor, having in the course
of his journey swam also the Delaware on the back of his horse. One legend is that the animal died soon after this second feat; the other, that he carried his master straight to the manor house. It is entirely probable that Herman was arrested at the suit of a creditor, and that fearing the tender mercies of the Dutch Government, he managed to escape on his
horse. At any rate there are two or three pictures extant of Herman and his horse, the master being represented as standing beside the horse, with the blood of the faithful creature reddening his hands. It is pretty well authenticated that Herman himself caused at least one of these pictures to be painted. This portrait of Herman shows a powerful Teutonic face. He is clean shaven, his mouth is firm, his eyes are piercing, his cheek bones are high. His hair, parted in the middle, falls in thick masses to his shoulders. He wears a red frock coat ruffled at the wristbands, and a full white tie that falls upon his bosom. Whatever Herman's quarrel with the Dutch, he was evidently on good terms with the English conquerors of New Amsterdam, for in 1671 the authorities at New York gave orders that those at New Castle, Del., should clear half the way for a road from that town to Herman's plantation. The people of Maryland were to clear the other half. But Herman himself had larger schemes that a mere traffic by wagon road, and he is believed to have projected a canal to connect Delaware and Chesapeake bays, an idea realized in the present Chesapeake and Delaware ship canal.

"Herman's friendship with the English conquerors of the Dutch possessions in North America seems to prove that he had lost favor with the Dutch, and an uncommonly interesting fact seems to furnish proof that he needed other protection than that which he had enjoyed while an agent of the Government at New Amsterdam, for in 1660 he applied to the Council of Maryland for a patent of naturalization, and in that year he and his five children received such patents. They seem to have been the first persons to have been naturalized by an American colony. Herman, after his naturalization, received what Lord Baltimore did not really own according to later treaties, the manor of St. Augustine, extending from the shore of Delaware Bay through to the line of Bohemia Manor. He willed this to one of his sons, but the family never made good the title to the whole grant, for this region was afterward adjudged part of Penn's territory. St. Augustine creek flows through the manor.

"The will of Herman is on file in the archives of New Castle County. His sons took an active part in the affairs of Delaware until one after the other they were called to assume the lordship of Bohemia Manor, and to live in the great manor house. There is a picturesque side light upon Herman's character to be obtained from the annals of those Christian Socialists of the seventeenth century, the followers of Jean de Labodie, successively an apostate to the Jesuits and to the Protestants. Some years after Herman had set up as lord of
Bohemia Manor, Brothers Sluyter and Bankers of the Labodists came to the peninsula of Delaware seeking converts and a home for their society. Just about the time they fell in with Herman they had persuaded Samuel Bayard, of the family distinguished in New York and Delaware, to join them, and they had hopes of making even Herman a convert. But they
declare in their journal that they found him, though kindly disposed to them personally, a worldly person, by no means to be won over. Herman did, however, deed to the Labodists in 1684 3750 acres of the manor, and to this day the land is called "the Labodie tract." Sluyter and Bankers set up a Christian Socialist colony there, and were joined by several families from New York. Sluyter proclaimed himself bishop of the flock, and set up his wife as a sort of abbess. Part of the community from Wiewert, in Denmark, came over to join the new society. They built a large house and cultivated the land. Everything was in common. The men and the women took their meals in separate apartments, and no person spoke at table. It often happened that a man dined for months without knowing the name of the next man at table. They eschewed all outward show, and were pledged to give up the world.

"Herman never had the slightest leaning toward the Labodist faith, and he came to repent having made a place for the colonists, as his son joined the society, and, at the instigation of its leaders, deserted his unbelieving young wife. The lands of the society were eventually partitioned, and some of the wealthiest of Maryland families are descended from these, perhaps the first Christian Socialists to organize an industrial society in America.

"By the year 1684 Herman, wearied toward the close of a feverish life, harried by claimants to part of his great estate, and unhappy because of his wife's temper, invested his son with the manor by deed of enfeoffment. The provisions of this deed give one a notion of the state proper to an American lord of the manor in the latter part of the seventeenth century. The consideration to be paid annually by the son was: "Five thousand pounds of good, sound, and merchantable tobacco and casks, and also six barrels of good beer and strong beer, one anchor of rum or brandy, one anchor of spirits, two anchors or twenty gallons of good wine, and one hogshead of the best cider out of the orchard, and one cwt. of good muscovado sugar for my particular private spending; and lastly, if I should remove with my abode to any other place in the country from off the manor, then he, my son, is obliged to pay toward
my said board the sum of 2000 pounds of tobacco and casks, and if I should happen to go to New York, then my son is to furnish me with £25 in money."

"Herman's great desire was to be the founder of a baronial family. His will provided that whosoever in the future should inherit the lordship of Bohemia Manor must add to his Christian name that of Augustine, or forfeit the inheritance to the next heir. He finally provided that heirs male to the estate failing, it should go to found a free school and college
of the "English Protestant Church," under the perpetual name of Augustine Bohemia. His will also provided for an elaborate tombstone, with a proper inscription. This stone of oolite, as are the stones hard by marking Mason and Dixon's line, an outgrowth of the very controversy that first brought Herman to Maryland, was removed from his grave and used as a door for the family vault of the Bassetts, then living on a portion of the manor, and in this vault was laid the body of James A. Bayard the elder. After Mr. Bayard's body was removed to Wilmington, Herman's tombstone fell to the ground and was broken. The inscription, which was cut by a workman who did not know how to spell manor or Bohemia, who is believed to have misspelled the name of the dead man himself, and who blundered by a year in the date accompanying the inscription, reads thus:

AVGVSTINE HERMEN,
Bohemian.
The first fovnder.
Seater of Bohemia Mairor.
Anno 1661.

"The lands of which Herman was lord are perhaps the finest on the Delaware peninsula. They lie mainly on the slope of the Chesapeake, traversed by the marvellously clear and beautiful tide-water streams characteristic of the region, dotted with fine old country homes and showing evidence on every side of a long established civilization. Some descendants
of the first lord still live upon the manor, but the name has long been extinct. The wife of John Randolph and the wife of Benedict Arnold were both descended from Herman."

1686/01/01

Grantor	Grantee	Parcel	Acreage	Lib:No:Fol	Type
Edmund O'Dwyer		New Mounster	6,000	NS:B:201 22:36	Patent

1686: New Mounster, 6,000 acres - Developer/Owner: Edmund O'Dwyer, Patent

1698/01/05

Grantor	Grantee	Parcel	Acreage	Lib:No:Fol	Type
Thomas Massey	Capt. Lewis Frost	Verina	125	1:156	Deed

January 5, 1698: Thomas Massey, planter of Cecil County in Maryland, sells for 6,000 pounds of tobacco to Capt. Lewis Frost, mariner of London in old England, a 125 acre portion of the tract called Verina lying on the South side of the Sassafras River in Cecil County and contained within the following metes and bounds: Beginning at a marked cedar tree being the first bounded tree of a parcel of land called The Slipe now in the possession of John Marsh and running South and by West to a marked chestnut tree thirty six perches and [running South] from the said chestnut tree three hundred and sixty four perches to a marked red oak, then East and by North to a creek called Cornwalleys Creek, and bounding on the said creek and running to the mouth of it to a marked red oak upon a point Northerly, and from the said oak West to the first bounded Cedar, containing by estimation one hundred and twenty five acres. George Wilson or his heirs hold the land patent of Verina; and Capt. Lewis Frost is hereby cleared from the yearly payment of 2/- 6p to George Wilson or his heirs. Witnesses: S. Wilworth, Nathan Oleyfeild, John Carvell and John Hynson, Junior; Daniel Pearce is Cecil County clerk.

1698/01/05

Grantor	Grantee	Parcel	Acreage	Lib:No:Fol	Type
Thomas Massey	Capt. Lewis Frost	Verina & The Slipe	125 & 50	1:159	Deed

January 5, 1698: Thomas Massey, planter of Cecil County in Maryland, sells for 6,000 pounds of tobacco to Capt. Lewis Frost, mariner of London in old England, a portion of the tract called Verina lying on the South side of the Sassafras River in Cecil County and contained within the following metes and bounds: Beginning at a marked cedar tree being the first bounded tree of a parcel of land called The Slipe now in the possession of John Marsh and running South and by West to a marked chestnut tree thirty six perches and [running South] from the said chestnut tree three hundred and sixty four perches to a marked red oak, then East and by North to a creek called Cornwalleys Creek, and bounding on the said creek and running to the mouth of it to a marked red oak upon a point Northerly, and from the said oak West to the first bounded Cedar, containing by estimation one hundred and twenty five acres. George Wilson or his heirs hold the land patent of Verina; and Capt. Lewis Frost is hereby cleared from the yearly payment of 2/- 6p to George Wilson or his heirs. The fifty acre parcel called The Slipe now being augmented to the present transaction has the following metes and bounds: Beginning at the aforesaid cedar and running North and West across the neck from the said cedar sixty perches unto a marked cedar standing on a point at the mouth of the Island Branch bounding on said cedar by a line drawn South West and by West forty perches unto a marked oak standing on a point by the side of the said island Branch bounding on the said oak and so running South and by West until it shall intersect the aforesaid long line North North East of South South West as appears by a patent. Witnesses: S. Whitworth and William Smith; and Justices of the Peace John Carvill and John Hynson, Junior.

1699/02/16

Grantor	Grantee	Parcel	Acreage	Lib:No:Fol	Type
Thomas Massey	Daniel Pearce	Verina & The Slipe	125 & 50	1:202	Deed

February 16, 1699: Thomas Massey, planter of Cecil County in Maryland, sells for 6,000 pounds of tobacco to Capt. Lewis Frost, mariner of London in old England, a portion of the tract called Verina lying on the South side of the Sassafras River in Cecil County and contained within the following metes and bounds: Beginning at a marked cedar tree being the first bounded tree of a parcel of land called The Slipe now in the possession of John Marsh and running South and by West to a marked chestnut tree thirty six perches and [running South] from the said chestnut tree three hundred and sixty four perches to a marked red oak, then East and by North to a creek called Cornwalleys Creek, and bounding on the said creek and running to the mouth of it to a marked red oak upon a point Northerly, and from the said oak West to the first bounded Cedar, containing by estimation one hundred and twenty five acres. George Wilson or his heirs hold the land patent of Verina; and Capt. Lewis Frost is hereby cleared from the yearly payment of 2/- 6p to George Wilson or his heirs. The fifty acre parcel called The Slipe now being augmented to the present transaction has the following metes and bounds: Beginning at the aforesaid cedar and running North and West across the neck from the said cedar sixty perches unto a marked cedar standing on a point at the mouth of the Island Branch bounding on said cedar by a line drawn South West and by West forty perches unto a marked oak standing on a point by the side of the said island Branch bounding on the said oak and so running South and by West until it shall intersect the aforesaid long line North North East of South South West as appears by a patent. Witnesses: M. Earle and John Dowdall; Daniel Pearce is Cecil County clerk.

1699/02/16

Grantor	Grantee	Parcel	Acreage	Lib:No:Fol	Type
Thomas Massey	Daniel Pearce	Verina	125	1:206	Deed

1706/02/19

Grantor	Grantee	Parcel	Acreage	Lib:No:Fol	Type
John Toas, Peter Massey & Sarah Toas Massey	Richard Bennett, Esquire	Stocton; Skelton; Sarahs Joynture; & Yorkshire	500; 500; 600 & 500	2:81	Deed

February 19, 1706: John Toas of Kent County and Peter Massey, planter, and his wife Sarah Toas Massey, of Kent County in Maryland, sell for 23,500 pounds of good sound and merchantable tobacco to Richard Bennett, Esquire, of Talbot County, those lands which John Toas by his bond obliged himself to sell to Richard Bennett some lands in Cecil County and in Kent County but failed to fulfill the bond, and so he has appointed William Comegys as his attorney to complete the sale. The lands are in Cecil County and were formerly purchased and possessed by Daniel Toas, deceased father of the said John Toas and Sarah Toas Massey and ought to have been made over to Richard Bennett by John Toas): Stocton (500 acres) formerly surveyed for and granted to Thomas Vaughan of Talbot County and lying in Cecil County on the branches of the Bohemia River; Skelton (500 acres) formerly surveyed for and granted to James Murphy of Talbot County and lying in Cecil County adjoining Stocton; Sarah's Joynture (600 acres) formerly surveyed for and granted to Richard Peacock of Talbot County and lying in Cecil County near the head of a branch of the Bohemia River and adjoining Skelton; and Yorkshire (500 acres) formerly surveyed for and granted to Daniel Carnell of Talbot County and lying in Cecil County on the East side of the Susquehanna River adjoining Sinclare's Purchase, said four parcels containing two thousand one hundred acres. Witnesses: Nathan Browne and Robert Roberts; and Justices of the Peace Edward Blay and William Pearce; John Dowdall is Cecil County clerk.

1714/01/20

Grantor	Grantee	Parcel	Acreage	Lib:No:Fol	Type
Peter Massey and wife Sarah Toas Massey	Henry Hollingsworth	New Mainster	300	2:260	Deed

January 20, 1714: Peter Massey and his wife Sarah Toas Massey of the Province of Maryland sell for £14 proclamation money to Henry Hollingsworth of Cecil County, 300 acres of land (out of a six thousand acre tract called New Mainster granted to Edmond Duire [O'Dwyer] by survey and certificate dated August 29, 1683) and subsequently conveyed to Daniel Toas, Senior, who 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). Witnesses: Thomas Browning and Re. Stretcher; and Justices of the Peace Thomas Frisby and John Ward; John Dowdall is Cecil County clerk. [Note: I looked in the deed index under Edmond Dwier and under Daniel Toas and at all the deed records for New Mainster w/o success - GL,III, ed.]

1716/01/01

Grantor	Grantee	Parcel	Acreage	Lib:No:Fol	Type
Martin Cartmill		Good Will	100	FF:7:73 PL:4:151	Patent

1716: Good Will, 100 Acres; Martin Cartmill, Patent
1716: Good Will, 100 Acres; Martin Cartmill, Patent

Note: the two links both point to patent records by the same names ...

There are two other tracts called Good Will: by Francis Boyd and Thomas McCleary.

1724/01/01

Grantor	Grantee	Parcel	Acreage	Lib:No:Fol	Type
Rees Jones		New Munster	300	Unpat. cert.244	Certificate

1724: New Munster, 200 acres - Developer/Owner: Rees Jones, Unpatented Certificate

1732/07/27

Grantor	Grantee	Parcel	Acreage	Lib:No:Fol	Type
John Reynolds		Sarahs Joynture	660	PL:8:516 AM:1:269	Patent

July 27, 1732: Sarahs Joynture, 660 Acres; John Reynolds, Patent

Images of the Patented Certificate No.892 can be viewed here.

There is another similar tract: but by Richard Peacock.

1738/10/26

Grantor	Grantee	Parcel	Acreage	Lib:No:Fol	Type
Richard Bennett		Yorkshire	675	Pat. cert.1080	Patent

October 26, 1738: Yorkshire, 675 Acres, Richard Bennett - Patented Certificate 1080

Images can be viewed here.
There is another tract with a similar name, but by Richard Carnell.

1789/12/17

Grantor	Grantee	Parcel	Acreage	Lib:No:Fol	Type
Francis Boyd		Good Will	128.5	Pat. cert.368	Patent

December 17, 1789: Good Will, 128 1/2 Acres; Francis Boyd - Patented Certificate 368

Images can be viewed here.
There are two other tracts called Good Will: by Thomas McCleary and Martin Cartmill.

1790/06/23

Grantor	Grantee	Parcel	Acreage	Lib:No:Fol	Type
Thomas McCleary		Good Will	118.75	Pat. cert.369	Patent

June 23, 1790: Good Will, 118-3/4 acres, Thomas McCleary, Patented Certificate 369

Images can be viewed here.
There are two other tracts called Good Will: by Francis Boyd and Martin Cartmill.

1795/09/02

Grantor	Grantee	Parcel	Acreage	Lib:No:Fol	Type
Robert Armstrong	John Cochran & Moses Cochran	Labodee Tract	109.25	JB:3:260	Deed

September 2, 1795: Robert Armstrong of New Castle County in the State of Delaware sells for £750 to John Cochran and Moses Cochran of Cecil County in the State of Maryland, 109-1/4 acres of lands lying in Cecil County on the North side of Bohemia River, including that parcel called Labodee Tract and also the plantation late of John Neide, deceased, and which his son John Neide has lately sold and conveyed unto the said John Cochran, who in turn sold it absolutely to the said Robert Armstrong, the present grantor. These lands are contained within the following metes and bounds: Beginning at a stake and stone set on the division line between the said land and the land belonging to John Knight, near the corner of an orchard, and a corner of the land lately sold to Col. James Moore, thence running with the said division line North seventeen and a quarter degrees East two hundred and twenty six perches to a cedar post standing on the North side of the road leading from Benjamin Sluyter's Mill to the head of Bohemia River, thence North one and three quarter degrees West one hundred and ten perches to a locust post on the South side of the road leading from the Church to the head of Behemia River, thence with the said road North fifty one degrees West eleven perches to a marked red oak, a corner of Doctor Sluyter Bonchell's land, thence with the said land South twenty four and a half degrees West forty perches to a stake or stone on the East side of a Branch falling into Bohemia River, thence continuing down the East side of said branch by the lines of land formerly sold by Henry VanBebber to Doctor Sluyter Bonchell [by] the following courses: South ten and a half degrees East sixteen perches, thence South five and a half degrees West fourteen perches, thence South three and a half degrees West fourteen perches, thence South twenty three degrees West sixteen perches, thence South forty eight degrees West fourteen perches, thence South thirty two and a half degrees West fourteen perches, thence South twenty eight degrees West twelve perches, thence South thirty eight and a half degrees West ten perches, thence South twenty five degrees West sixteen perches, thence South twelve and a half degrees West sixteen perches to the crossing of the road from Sluyter's Mill to the head of Bohemia River, over said branch, thence South eighteen degrees West twelve perches, thence South twenty degrees West forty six perches, thence South forty nine degrees West sixteen perches to where formerly was an old road, thence crossing over said branch North sixty eight degrees West thirteen perches to a white oak marked with six notches, thence South five and a half degrees West twenty six perches, thence South thirty one degrees West three and a quarter perches to another corner of the land lately sold to Col. James Moore, thence with the said Moore's line South seventy one degrees East eighty five perches to the beginning, containing one hundred and nine and a quarter acres. Witnesses: Justices of the Peace Sal. Glenn and Lambert Beard; Jo. Baxter is Cecil County clerk.

1800/04/13

Grantor	Grantee	Parcel	Acreage	Lib:No:Fol	Type
Hugh Boyd and wife Jane	John Mace	Good Will	128.5	22:147	Deed

April 13, 1800: John Mace (Massey ?) of Marpleton Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, buys for $900.00 from Hugh Boyd of West Nottingham in Cecil County, State of Maryland, the entire 128-1/2 acre tract called Good Will, lying in West Nottingham and adjoining the lands of Robert Findley, William Johnson and others, containing one hundred and twenty eight and a half acres within the following metes and bounds: Beginning at a heap of stones and running thence South seventy six degrees West one hundred and thirty five perches to a heap of stones, thence South eighty three degrees West twenty eight and three quarter perches to a stone in a road, thence [South] three degrees East ninety eight perches to a stone in a field or corner of Amos Ewing's land, thence South seventy six degrees East thirty and a half perches to a stone in the woods, thence North eighty five and a half degrees East one hundred and fifty five and a quarter perches to a small hickory sapling, thence North ten and a quarter degrees West eighty one perches to a stone in a lane above Capt. Johnston's Smith [illegible], thence North twenty two degrees West one and a half perches to the beginning heap of stones, containing one hundred and twenty eight and a half acres. Reference: Liber BW No.2 Folio 522, which tract was purchased from the State of Maryland by Francis Boyd for which the State of Maryland granted patent in Liber JC No.8 Folio 226 dated December 17, 1780. Witnesses: John Mifflin and Richard Oldham; J. Baxter is Cecil County clerk.

1804/04/27

Grantor	Grantee	Parcel	Acreage	Lib:No:Fol	Type
John Mace and wife Ann	Davis Read	Good Will	128.5	25:265	Deed

April 27, 1804: John Mace (Massey ?) of West Nottingham in Cecil County, State of Maryland, sells for $950.00 to Davis Read, also of Cecil County, the entire 128-1/2 acre tract called Good Will granted to Francis Boyd by the State of Maryland and recorded in Liber JC No.8 Folio 226 and dated December 17, 1789, in the land records for the Western Shore of Maryland and subsequently conveyed by deed dated March 6, 1790, to Hugh Boyd (see Liber BW No.2 Folio 522 - not yet available - GL,III, ed.) and then by another deed dated April 2, 1800, from Hugh Boyd to John Mace (see Liber JB No.6 Folio 147). The present tract, called Good Will, is contained within the following metes and bounds: Beginning at a heap of stones and running thence South seventy six degrees West one hundred and thirty two perches to a heap of stones, thence South eighty three degrees West twenty eight and three quarter perches to a stone in a road, thence South three degrees East ninety eight perches to a stone in a field, a corner of Amos Ewing's land, thence South seventy six degrees East thirty and a half perches to a stone, thence North eighty five and a half degrees East one hundred and fifty five and a quarter perches to hickory [tree], thence North ten and a quarter degrees West eighty one perches to a stone, thence North twenty two degrees West one and a half perches to the place of beginning, containing one hundred and twenty eight and a half acres. Witnesses: [illegible] Reynolds and Justices of the Peace Jacob Reynolds and John Porte[r]; J. Baxter is Cecil County clerk.

1819/01/13

Grantor	Grantee	Parcel	Acreage	Lib:No:Fol	Type
John Roberts	Nicholas Massey	slave James	[none]	JS:16:59	Mortgage to Secure a Debt

January 13, 1819: Nicholas Massey of Cecil County in the State of Maryland buys for $168.00 from John Roberts, also of Cecil County, the slave named James, seventeen years old, contingent on the payment by John Roberts of half of the $168.00 with interest by the first of January next and the residue by January 1, 1821, in which case the sale becomes void and of no effect. Witnesd: Justice of the Peace John T. Veazey; James Sewall is Cecil County clerk.

1821/12/08

Grantor	Grantee	Parcel	Acreage	Lib:No:Fol	Type
Nicholas Massey	William Knight	slaves Emanuall, Edward & Elizabeth	[none]	JS:18:240	Bill of Sale

December 8, 1821: Nicholas Massey of Cecil County in the State of Maryland sells for $1,050.00 to William Knight of Kent County the following slaves: Emanuall, age about twenty six, five feet nine inches and of sound health; Edward, age about nineteen, six feet tall, stout and healthy; and Elizabeth, age about twenty three, free of all bodily disability. Witness: Justice of the Peace John Caroll; James Sewall is Cecil County clerk.

1831/10/24

Grantor	Grantee	Parcel	Acreage	Lib:No:Fol	Type
Thomas Miller, Junior, Esq.	William Cochran	Labodee Tract	109.25	JS:30:186	Sheriff's Sale to Settle a Court Judgment

October 24, 1831: William Cochran of Cecil County in the State of Maryland buys for $50.00 and $5.00 earnest money from Thomas Miller, Junior, Esquire, late Sheriff of Cecil County, the land called Labodee Tract, lately seized for payment of a court judgment against James Cochran, and located in Cecil County on Bohemia Manor on the North side of Bohemia River, and containing one hundred and nine and a quarter acres. Ephraim Sterling was administrator of the proceedings against James Cochran; and the judgment was for $95.00 in damages plus costs of $7.54. Labodee Tract is described in the deed recorded in Liber JB No.3, Folio 260. Witnesses: Justices of the Peace Will Hewitt and James Purnell; James Sewall is Cecil County clerk.

1837/06/30

Grantor	Grantee	Parcel	Acreage	Lib:No:Fol	Type
John Wales & wife Ann	Richard I. Foard	Bohemia Manor	255	JS:39:443	Deed

June 30, 1837: Richard I. Foard of Cecil County in the State of Maryland buys for $400.00 from John Wales and his wife Ann of the State of Delaware, one undivided moiety or half share of the 255 acre parcel sold to John Wales by the trustees James R. Black and James Rogers and held in common and lying on Bohemia Manor in Cecil County and enclosed within the following metes and bounds: Beginning at the corner of the land of Mary Oldhauer, now in the tenure of George Rhodes, on the road leading from the Brick Mill at the head of Bohemia River to the Old Manor Church, thence along the said road toward the said church until it intersects the road leading from the said church to the Buck Tavern, thence along the said last mentioned road to another corner of the said Mary Oldhauer's land, thence with the line of the said land to the place of beginning, containing two hundred and fifty five acres. Witnesses: Justices of the Peace for Delaware Joseph M. Palten and Willard Hale; certified by William A. Mendenhall, U.S.District Court clerk. James Sewall is Cecil County clerk.

1837/06/30

Grantor	Grantee	Parcel	Acreage	Lib:No:Fol	Type
Elihu Chauncey	Richard I. Foard	Bohemia Manor	255	JS:39:446	Deed

June 30, 1837: Richard I. Foard of Cecil County in the State of Maryland buys for $400.00 from Elihu Chauncey of the City of Philadelphia, one undivided moiety or half share of the 255 acre parcel lying on Bohemia Manor in Cecil County and enclosed within the following metes and bounds: Beginning at the corner of the land of Mary Oldhauer, now in the tenure of George Rhodes, on the road leading from the Brick Mill at the head of Bohemia River to the Old Manor Church, thence along the said road toward the said church until it intersects the road leading from the said church to the Buck Tavern, thence along the said last mentioned road to another corner of the said Mary Oldhauer's land, thence with the line of the said land to the place of beginning, containing two hundred and fifty five acres. Witnesses: Justices of the Peace for the City of Philadelphia K.L. Cropper and Richard Randall; certified by Archibald Randall, Judge of Common Pleas Court inPhiladelphia; Robert Morris is Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas; and James Sewall is Cecil County clerk.

1838/06/05

Grantor	Grantee	Parcel	Acreage	Lib:No:Fol	Type
William Cochran & wife Sarah M. Cochran	Ashton Roberts	Labodee Tract	109.25	JS:41:172	Deed

June 5, 1838: William Cochran and his wife Sarah M. Cochran of Cecil County in the State of Maryland sell for $1,100.00 to Ashton Roberts, also of Cecil County, the 109-1/4 acre parcel called Labodee Tract, lying in Cecil County on the North side of Bohemia River on Bohemia Manor and described in the deed recorded in Liber JB No.3 Folio 260, adjoining lands of Philip Smith on the East and lands of Thomas Bonchell on the West and conveyed by Thomas Miller, Junior, former Sheriff of Cecil County, to the said William Cochran by deed dated about October 24, 1831, and recorded in Liber JS No.30, Folio 186. Witnesses: William Mackey and John A. Rankin; James Sewall is Cecil County clerk.

1838/06/26

Grantor	Grantee	Parcel	Acreage	Lib:No:Fol	Type
Joshua J. Massey	George Turner	animals	[none]	JS:41:354	Mortgage to Secure a Debt

June 26, 1838: Joshua J. Massey of Cecil County in the State of Maryland sells for $50.00 to George Turner, also of Cecil County, the following animals: One bay horse, red cow, one white cow, and one heifer calf, unless Joshua J. Massey pays forty nine dollars with interest from the fifteenth day of January 1838 (for which judgment was obtained on the Magistrate's Docket for the 2nd Election District) on or before the 4th day of June 1839, in which case this bill of sale becomes void and of no effect. Witnesses: Justice of the Peace Joseph Bryan and Thomas M. Bryan.

1844/03/23

Grantor	Grantee	Parcel	Acreage	Lib:No:Fol	Type
Thomas Massey, Junior & wife Eliza Jane Massey	Richard I. Foard	Bohemia Manor	255+	GMC:6:164	Bond

March 23, 1844: Thomas Massey, Junior & wife Eliza Jane Massey of New Castle County in the State of Maryland executes his bond for $2,000.00 to Richard I. Foard of Cecil County to secure their payment of a debt of $1,000.00 on or before March 23, 1846. Additional security in the form of a parcel of land is also presented; the land is situated in Cecil County on Bohemia Manor, the metes and bounds of which are: Beginning at the point of the intersection of the public roads leading from the Bohemia Manor Church or St. Augustine to the brick mill at the head of Bohemia River and the public road leading from the said church to the Buck Tavern on the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal in New Castle County in the State of Delaware and running thence along by and with the said road leading to the Buck Tavern to a line of the land belonging to John Reed, then by and with the said line of John Reed's land to the aforesaid road leading from the said church to the said brick mill, and thence along by and with said last mentioned road to the place of beginning, containing two hundred and fifty five acres two roods and eight perches. This is the land that was conveyed to the said Thomas Massey, Junior by the said Richard I. Foard and Susan I. Foard by their deed dated March 21, 1844. Witnesses: Justices of the Peace William Hanes and George H. Sayer; George McCullough is Cecil County clerk.

1844/03/23

Grantor	Grantee	Parcel	Acreage	Lib:No:Fol	Type
Richard I. Foard & wife Susan I. Foard	Thomas Massey, Junior	Bohemia Manor	255+	GMC:6:166	Deed

March 23, 1844: Richard I. Foard and Susan I. Foard of Cecil County in the State of Maryland sell for $2,500.00 to Thomas J. Massey of New Castle County in the State of Delaware the tract of land called Bohemia Manor, situated in Cecil County on Bohemia Manor, the metes and bounds of which are: Beginning at the point of the intersection of the public roads leading from the Bohemia Manor Church or St. Augustine to the brick mill at the head of Bohemia River and the public road leading from the said church to the Buck Tavern on the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal in New Castle County in the State of Delaware and running thence along by and with the said road leading to the Buck Tavern to a line of the land belonging to John Reed, then by and with the said line of John Reed's land to the aforesaid road leading from the said church to the said brick mill, and thence along by and with said last mentioned road to the place of beginning, containing two hundred and fifty five acres two roods and eight perches. This is the land which was conveyed as one undivided moiety to Richard I. Foard by Elihu Chauncey by deed dated June 13, 1837 and recorded in Liber JS No. 39, Folio 446 and by the other undivided moiety conveyed to Richard I. Foard by John Wales and wife by deed dated June 7, 1837 and recorded in Liber JS No. 39, Folio 443. The same land was [previously] conveyed by James M. Baroome and wife by deed dated March 12, 1844 and again mentioned and described in a deed from Rendall S. Cropper and wife by deed dated March 16, 1844. Witnesses: Justices of the Peace R.S. Cropper and Jacob Vandegrift; George McCullough is Cecil County clerk.

1851/01/23

Grantor	Grantee	Parcel	Acreage	Lib:No:Fol	Type
Thomas Massey & wife Eliza Jane Massey	Richard T. Foard, John Mears, William C. Crow, John Peach and Henry Kibler	[not named]	0.13	RCH:3:58	Deed

January 23, 1851: Thomas Massey and his wife Eliza Jane Massey of Cecil County in the State of Maryland sell for 6¢ to Richard T. Foard, John Mears, William C. Crow, John Peach and Henry Kibler, all of Bohemia Manor in Cecil County, trustees of St. Augustine School House on Bohemia Manor, all that tract lying in Cecil County at the North West corner of said Thomas Massey's farm at the junction of the roads leading from Thomas Murphy's Factory and from Delaware to St. Augustine's Church, containing one eighth of an acre and bounded as follows: On the North by the road leading from Saint Augustine to the Buck or Summit Bridge, Delaware, on the West by the road leading from the said Saint Augustine to the Bohemia Mills, on the East by a straight line from the aforesaid road to road, being a part or corner of a tract purchased by the said Thomas Massey from Richard T. Foard of Bohemia Manor. Witnesses: Justices of the Peace William S. Cropper and Lambert D. Nowland; R.C. Hollyday is Cecil County clerk.

1851/07/25

Grantor	Grantee	Parcel	Acreage	Lib:No:Fol	Type
Thomas Massey, Junior, & wife Eliza Jane Massey	Lawrence Simmons	Bohemia Manor	255+	RCH:3:671	Bond & Mortage to Secure a Debt

July 25, 1851: Thomas Massey, Junior, and his wife Eliza Jane Massey of Cecil County in the State of Maryland execute a bond for $2,000.00 to Lawrence Simmons, also of Cecil County, to ensure completion of their obligation of $1,000.00 in debt to Mr. Simmons on or before July 25, 1853. Also added as security is the present conditional sale of the two hundred and fifty five acre, two roods and 8 perches tract located on Bohemia Manor in Cecil County which was conveyed to the said Thomas Massey, Junior, by Richard I. Foard and his wife Susan I. Foard by deed dated March 1, 1844, and recorded in Liber GMC No.6, Folio 166. If the $1,000.00 debt herein mentioned is repaid without default, then the present sale is void and of no effect. Witnesses: Justices of the Peace Lambert D. Nowland and William S. Cropper; R.C. Hollyday is Cecil County clerk.

1852/09/08

Grantor	Grantee	Parcel	Acreage	Lib:No:Fol	Type
Thomas Massey & wife Eliza Jane Massey	Mary E. Hollingsworth	Bohemia Manor	255+	HHM:1:47	Mortgage & Bond to Secure a Debt

September 8, 1852: Thomas Massey and his wife Eliza Jane Massey of Cecil County in the State of Maryland execute a bond for $4,000.00 to secure the repayment of $2,000.00 in debt with legal interest thereon to Mary E. Hollingsworth in annual installments ending on or before September 8, 1857. Also added as security is a tract of land whose metes and bounds are: Beginning at the point of intersection between the public road leading from the Bohemia Manor Church or St. Augustine to the Brick Mill at the head of Bohemia River and the public road leading from the said church to the Buck Tavern on the Chesapeake & Delaware Canal in New Castle County in the State of Delaware, and running thence along by & with the said road leading to the said Buck Tavern to a line of the land belonging to John Reed, then by & with said line of John Reed's land to the aforesaid road leading from the said church to the said brick Mill, thence along by & with the said last mentioned road to the place of beginning, containing two hundred and fifty five acres, two roods and eight perches. See Liber GMC No.6 Folio 166 for the complete description of the tract. Should the repayment be fully completed, this sale becomes void and of no effect. Witnesses: Justices of the Peace George H. Joyce and J.E. Brown; H.H. Mitchell is Cecil County clerk.

1853/12/28

Grantor	Grantee	Parcel	Acreage	Lib:No:Fol	Type
George Earle	Thomas Massey	[not named]	152+	HHM:2:347	Deed

December 28, 1853: Thomas Massey of Cecil County in the State of Maryland buys for $3,809.37 from George Earle, trustee, also of Cecil County, according to a decree by the Court of Chancery of Maryland dated August 9, 1851, passed in a cause between Alexander Young, next friend of Sarah Maitland, Thomas Maitland, William Maitland, and Margaret Maitland, complainants, and Sarah Maitland, William Maitland, Thomas Maitland, and Margaret Maitland, defendants, wherein George Earle was appointed trustee with authority to sell the real estate in Bohemia Manor designated as Lot No.2 in the plat made by Francis B. Gottier, Cecil County Surveyor, and contained within the following metes and bounds: Beginning at a stone set in the ground on the West side of the public road leading from Warwick to Elkton, marked on the aforesaid plat by the black letter B, it being at a corner of part of the same land sold to Thomas Massey, and running thence North two degrees ten minutes East one hundred and forty seven and 7/10 perches along the West side of the public road leading from Warwick to Elkton to the middle of the public road leading to St. Augustine, thence north forty three degrees West twenty four perches along the middle of said road, thence North thirty nine degrees forty minutes West one hundred and thirty one and 2/10 perches, still along the middle of said road, thence South half a degree West one hundred and twelve and 3/10 perches, thence South nineteen degrees and fifty five minutes West one hundred and fifty eight and 8/10 perches to a stone set in the ground and at a point in the aforesaid plat marked C, thence South eighty eight degrees East one hundred and forty nine and 8/10 perches to the place of beginning, containing one hundred and fifty two acres, one rood and twenty perches. Witnesses: Justices of the Peace John A. Rankin and Edmond Brown, Senior; H.H. Mitchell is Cecil County clerk.

1853/12/28

Grantor	Grantee	Parcel	Acreage	Lib:No:Fol	Type
Thomas Massey & wife Eliza Jane Massey	Lewis T. Roberts	Bohemia Manor	152+	HHM:2:349	Deed

December 28, 1853: Thomas Massey & wife Eliza Jane Massey of Cecil County in the State of Maryland sell for $4,000.00 to Lewis T. Roberts, also of Cecil County, all that tract of land lying in Cecil County on Bohemia Manor and contained within the following metes and bounds: Beginning at a stone set in the ground on the West side of the public road leading from Warwick to Elkton, it being a corner of part of this same land sold to a certain Thomas Massey, and running thence North two degrees and ten minutes East one hundred and forty seven and 7/10 perches along the West side of the public road leading from Warwick to Elkton to the middle of the public road leading to St. Augustine, thence North forty three degrees West twenty four perches along the middle of said road, thence North thirty nine degrees and forty minutes West one hundred and thirty one and 2/10 perches, still along the middle of said road, thence South half a degree West one hundred and twelve and 3/10 perches, thence South nineteen degrees and fifty five minutes West one hundred and fifty eight and 8/10 perches to a stone set in the ground, thence South eighty eight degrees East one hundred and forty nine and 8/10 perches to the place of beginning, containing one hundred and fifty two acres, one rood and twenty perches, this being the same land which George Earle, acting under a decree of the High Court of Chancery of Maryland, sold to the aforesaid Thomas Massey. Witnesses: Justices of the Peace John A. Rankin and Edmond Brown, Senior; H.H. Mitchell is Cecil County clerk.

1854/03/14

Grantor	Grantee	Parcel	Acreage	Lib:No:Fol	Type
Benjamin F. Sluyter, Executor	Thomas Massey	Bohemia Manor	255+	HHM:2:540	Deed of Release of a Mortgage

March 14, 1854: Thomas Massey and his wife Eliza Jane Massey of Cecil County in the State of Maryland close for $1,000.00 from Benjamin E. Sluyter, also of Cecil County, trustee and executor of the Last Will and Testament of Lawrence Simmons, the mortgage on lands in Bohemia Manor which Thomas Massey and his wife Eliza Jane Massey had put up as security to pay a debt (See Liber GMC No.6, Folio 164) and which Thomas Massey and Eliza Jane Massey had earlier put up as security to cover a debt of $1,000.00 to Lawrence Simmons (See Liber RCH No.3 Folio 671). Thomas Massey & Eliza Jane Massey had purchased this tract in Bohemia Manor, comprising two hundred and fifty five acres, two roods and eight perches, from Richard I. Foard & wife Susan I. Foard; see Liber GMC No.6, Folio 166. Witnesses: Justices of the Peace John A. Rankin and Edmond Brown, Senior; H.H. Mitchell is Cecil County clerk.

1855/04/12

Grantor	Grantee	Parcel	Acreage	Lib:No:Fol	Type
Ashton Roberts & wife Sarah	Samuel E. Massey	Labodee Tract	109.25	HHM:4:649	Deed

April 12, 1855: Samuel E. Massey of Cecil County in the State of Maryland buys for $2,500.00 from Ashton Roberts and his wife Sarah Roberts of Philadelphia County in the State of Pennsylvania all that 109-1/4 acre part of a tract of land called Labodee Tract lying in Cecil County on the North side of Bohemia River on Bohemia Manor that is contained within the following metes and bounds: Beginning at a stake and stone set on the division line between this said land and land formerly belonging to John Wright, near a corner of land once sold to Col. James Moore, thence running with said division line North seventeen and a quarter degrees East two hundred and twenty six perches to a cedar post standing on the North side of the road leading from Sluyter's Mill to the head of Bohemia River, thence North one and a quarter degrees West one hundred and ten perches to a locust post on the South side of the road leading from the Church to the said head of Bohemia River, thence with said road North fifty one degrees West eleven perches to a marked red oak, a corner of what was on a Dr. Sluyter Burchell's land, thence with said land South twenty four and a half degrees West forty perches to a stake or stone on the East side of a Branch falling into Bohemia River, thence continuing down the east side of said branch by the lines of the land formerly sold by Henry VanBibbert to Dr. Sluyter Burchhell the following courses: South ten and a half degrees East sixteen perches,thence South five and a half degrees West fourteen perches, Thence South three and a half degrees West fourteen perches, thence South twenty three degrees West twenty four perches, thence South sixteen and a half degrees West thirty perches, thence South forty one degrees West sixteen perches, thence South [forty] eight degrees West fourteen perches, thence South twenty eight degrees West twelve perches, thence South thirty eight and a half degrees West ten perches, thence South twenty five degrees West sixteen perches, thence South twelve and a half degrees West sixteen perches to the crossing of the road from Sluyter's Mill to the head of Bohemia River over said branch, thence South eighteen degrees West twelve perches, thence South twenty degrees West forty six perches, thence South forty nine degrees West sixteen perches to where was formerly an old road, thence crossing over said branch North sixty eight degrees West thirteen perches to a white oak marked with six notches, thence South five and a half degrees West twenty six perches, thence South thirty one degrees West three and a quarter perches to another corner of said land once sold to Co. James Moore, thence with the said Moore's land South seventy one degrees East eighty five perches to the place of beginning, containing one hundred and nine and a quarter acres, being the same land which was conveyed to William Cockran and his wife Sarah to the said Ashton Roberts by deed dated April 5, 1838, and recorded in Liber JS No.41, Folio 172, and also being the same land that was conveyed by Robert Armstrong to John Cochran by deed dated August 7, 1795 and recorded in Liber JB No.3 Folio 260. Witnesses: Commissioner Edward Shippen and S.P. Hastings; H.H. Mitchell is Cecil County clerk.

1855/04/23

Grantor	Grantee	Parcel	Acreage	Lib:No:Fol	Type
Samuel E. Massey & wife Sarah Ann Massey	Lewis T. Roberts	Labodee Tract	109.25	HHM:4:652	Deed

April 23, 1855: Samuel E. Massey and his wife Sarah Ann Massey of New Castle County in the State of Delaware sell for $4,500.00 to Lewis T. Roberts of Cecil County in the State of Maryland, a 109-1/4 acre part of the parcel called Labodee Tract, lying on Bohemia Manor in Cecil County on the North side of Bohemia River that is contained within the following metes and bounds: Beginning at a stone and stake set on the division line between the said land and land formerly owned by John Knight near a corner of land once sold to Col. James Moore, thence running with said division line North seventeen and a quarter degrees East two hundred and twenty six perches to a cedar post standing on the North side of the road leading from Sluyter's Mill to the head of Bohemia River, thence North one and three quarter degrees West one hundred and ten perches to a locust post on the South side of the road leading from the Church to the said head of Bohemia river, thence with the said road North fifty one degrees West eleven perches to a marked red oak, a corner of what was once Dr. Sluyter Bonchell's land, thence with said land South twenty four and a half degrees West forty perches to a stake or stone on the East side of a branch falling into Bohemia River, thence continuing down the East side of said branch by the lines of the lands formerly sold by Henry VanBibbert to Dr. Sluyter Bonchell [by] the following courses: South ten and a half degrees East sixteen perches, then South five and a half degrees West fourteen perches, then South three and a half degrees West fourteen perches, then South twenty three degrees West twenty four perches, then South sixteen and a half degrees West thirty perches, then South fifty one degrees West sixteen perches, then South forty eight degrees West fourteen perches, then South thirty two and a half degrees West fourteen perches, then South twenty eight degrees West twelve perches, then South thirty eight and a half degrees West ten perches, then South twenty five degrees West sixteen perches, then South twelve and a half degrees West sixteen perches to the beginning road from Sluyter's Mill to the head of Bohemia River over said branch, thence South eighteen degrees West twelve perches, thence South twenty degrees West forty six perches, thence South forty nine degrees West sixteen perches to where was formerly an old road, thence crossing over said branch North sixty eight degrees West thirteen perches to a white oak marked with six notches, thence South five and a half degrees West twenty six perches, thence South twenty one degrees West three and a quarter perches to another corner of the land once sold to col. James Moore and thence with the said Moore's land South seventy one degrees East eighty five perches to the place of beginning, containing one hundred ans nine and a quarter acres, being the same tract of land which was conveyed to the said Samuel E. Massey by Ashton Roberts and his wife Sarah Roberts of the County of Philadelphia in the State of Pennsylvania by deed dated April 5, 1855 [and recorded in Liber HHM No.4, Folio 649 - GL,III, ed.]. Witness: Justice of the Peace John A. Rankin; H.H. Mitchell is Cecil County clerk.

1857/04/22

Grantor	Grantee	Parcel	Acreage	Lib:No:Fol	Type
Benjamin W. Harris	Thomas Massey & wife Eliza Jane Massey	Bohemia Manor	255+	HHM:8:442	Release of Mortgage

April 22, 1857: Thomas Massey and his wife Eliza Jane Massey of Cecil County in the State of Maryland satisfies for $1,000.00 from Benjamin W. Harris, also of Cecil County, the mortgage on the 255+ acre parcel which Thomas Massey and his wife Eliza Jane Massey had sold to Richard I. Foard and his wife Susan I. Foard by mortgage deed dated June 17, 1845 and recorded in Liber GMC No.6, Folio 164 that is located on Bohemia Manor on the North side of Bohemia River in Cecil County, who then assigned the mortgage to Benjamin W. Harris. Witness: Justice of the Peace Alexander P. Bannick; H.H. Mitchell is Cecil County clerk.

1858/05/20

Grantor	Grantee	Parcel	Acreage	Lib:No:Fol	Type
William D. Morris	Samuel V. Mace	Goods & chattels	[none]	WHR:1:264	Bill of Sale

May 20, 1858: Dr. Samuel V. Mace (Massey) of Cecil County in the State of Maryland buys for from William D. Morris, also of Cecil County, the following goods and chattels: Three feather beds & bedding, six red chairs, one rocking chair, one desk & drawers, three tables, one cookstove, and two stands. Witness: Edmund Brown, Senior; William H. Rickells is Cecil County clerk.

1858/12/11

Grantor	Grantee	Parcel	Acreage	Lib:No:Fol	Type
Thomas Ford & wife Helen M. Ford	Samuel V. Mace	[not stated]	[not stated]	HHM:9:608	Deed

December 11, 1858: Samuel V. Mace (Massey) of Cecil County in the State of Maryland buys for $2,000.00 from Thomas Ford and his wife Helen M. Ford, also of Cecil County, part of the tract of land lying in Cecil County in the Village of Cecilton on the North side of the road leading from the Village of Warwick in Cecil County and contained within the following metes and bounds: Beginning at the South East corner of the parcel, in the middle of the said public road, thence from a stone set in the ground at the South West corner of a lot of land formerly conveyed by the said Thomas Ford and wife to William T. Weldon South Westerly one perch, thence running by and with said Weldon's lot North thirty nine and a half degrees East sixty one and 9/10 perches to the land of George Davis, then by and with said Davis's land North forty five degrees West twenty three and a half perches to a stone, a corner of Francis R. Crookshank's lot, then by and with said Crookshank's lot and thence South forty five and a half degrees West sixty seven and 8/10 perches, then North sixty four and a half degrees West five and 4/10 perches to a lot belonging to the late Joshua Greenwood's heirs, then with said lot South Twenty six degrees West five and 7/10 perches, then South thirty five and a half degrees West four and 8/10 perches into the middle of the aforesaid public road, then by and with said road South sixty seven degrees East seven perches, then South sixty and a half degrees East six perches, then South seventy two and three quarter degrees East twelve perches, then South eighty one and a half degrees East twelve and 3/10 perches to the place of beginning, containing [not stated] acres. Witnesses: Justices of the Peace William F. Weldon and Samuel Hays; William H. Ricketts is Cecil County clerk.

1858/12/11

Grantor	Grantee	Parcel	Acreage	Lib:No:Fol	Type
Samuel V. Mace	Thomas Ford	[not stated]	[not stated]	WHR:1:619	Mortgage to Secure a Debt

December 11, 1858: Samuel V. Mace (Massey) of Cecil County in the State of Maryland mortgages for $2,000.00 to Thomas Ford, also of Cecil County, all that tract of land lying in Cecil County in the Village of Coalton which is contained within the following metes and bounds: Being bounded on the North by the land of George Davis; on the South by the public road leading from Cecilton to Warwick; on the East by a lot of land conveyed by the said Thomas Ford and his wife to William T. Weldon; and on the West by lands of Francis B. Crickshank, Peregrine Pennington, and others, it being the same tract which was conveyed to Samuel V. Mace by Thomas Ford and wife by deed bearing this same date. If the said Samuel V. Mace should pay the $2,000.00 indebtedness to Thomas Ford on or before January 1, 1861, then this transfer shall be null and void and of no effect. Witnesses: Justices of the Peace Samuel Hays and William F. Weldon; H.H. Mitchell is Cecil County clerk. Thomas Ford released this mortgage on November 12, 1862.

1860/01/02

Grantor	Grantee	Parcel	Acreage	Lib:No:Fol	Type
Richard D. Aiken & wife Elizabeth A. Aiken	Samuel V. Mace	[not stated]	0.5	WHR:2:342	Deed

January 2, 1860: Samuel V. Mace (Massey) of Cecil County in the State of Maryland buys for $1,250.00 from Richard D. Aiken and his wife Elizabeth A. Aiken, also of Cecil County, all that 1/2 acre parcel of land located in the Village of Cecilton in Cecil County which is contained within the following metes and bounds: Beginning at a stone buried in the ground in the public road leading from Cecilton to Saint Stephen's Church at the South West corner of a lot belonging to Thomas P. Jones, Esquire, and running thence North sixty degrees West five and a half perches, then North eighteen and a half degrees East fourteen and 8/10 perches, then South sixty degrees East five and a half perches, and from thence to the place of beginning, containing half an acre, this being the same parcel conveyed to Richard D. Akin by Thomas P. Jones and his wife Anna C. Jones by deed dated December 30, 1859. Witnesses: Justices of the Peace John R. Smith and Samuel Hays; W.H. Ricketts is Cecil County clerk.

1860/03/16

Grantor	Grantee	Parcel	Acreage	Lib:No:Fol	Type
Richard D. Aiken	Isaac B. Parker	[not stated]	[not stated]	WHR:3:368	Mortgage Assignment

March 16, 1860: Richard D. Aiken of Cecil County in the State of Maryland assigns for $591.00 paid to him by Isaac B. Parker the entirety of the lands and property mortgaged to Richard D. Aiken by Samuel V. Mace (Massey) by deed dated January 2, 1860 and recorded in Liber WHR No.3, Folio 264. Witnesses: George W. Massey and Samuel Hays; William H. Ricketts is Cecil County clerk.

1860/01/02

Grantor	Grantee	Parcel	Acreage	Lib:No:Fol	Type
Samuel V. Mace	Richard D. Aiken	[not stated]	[not stated]	WHR:3:264	Mortgage to Secure a Debt

January 2, 1860: Samuel V. Mace of Cecil County in the State of Maryland mortgages for his debt of $591.00 to Richard D. Aiken, also of Cecil County, all that parcel of land located in the Village of Cecilton in Cecil County that is contained within the following metes and bounds: Beginning at a stone buried in the ground in the public road leading from Cecilton to Saint Stephen's Church at the South West corner of a lot belonging to Thomas P. Jones, Esquire, and running thence North sixty degrees West five and a half perches, then North eighteen and a half degrees East fourteen and 8/10 perches, then South sixty degrees East five and a half perches, and from thence to the place of beginning, containing half an acre, this being the same parcel conveyed to Samuel V. Mace by Richard D. Akin and wife by deed dated January 2, 1860 [and recorded in Liber WHR No.2, Folio 342]. However, it is herein provided that if Samuel V. Massey pays the $591.00 to Richard D. Aiken on or before January 1, 1863, then the present conveyance shall be void and of no effect. Witnesses: John R. Smith and Justice of the Peace Samuel Hays; W.H. Ricketts is Cecil County clerk.

1861/09/23

Grantor	Grantee	Parcel	Acreage	Lib:No:Fol	Type
William Reed et al.	Samuel V. Mace	[not stated]	[not stated]	WHR:4:237	Deed

September 23, 1861: William Reed and his wife Elizabeth Reed of Harford County, Ann Reed, Benjamin Reed and his wife Rebecca Reed, Joshua Reed and his wife Sarah Elizabeth Reed, and John Reed and his wife Eliza Reed, all of Cecil County, all in the State of Maryland, sell for $200.00 to Samuel V. Mace (Massey) also of Cecil County, in fee simple, all that lot or parcel of ground lying in Cecilton, Cecil County, Maryland, which is bounded on the North by John S. Pearce's lot, on the South by the public road leading from the Village of Cecilton to the Village of Warwick, on the East by lands of Samuel V. Mace, and on the West by a lot belonging to William Pearce's heirs and a lot belonging to Hyland B. Pennington, Esquire. Witnesses: B. Segae, Mary A. Segae, James Megee, Justice of the Peace Samuel Hays, and Justice of the Peace Benedict Segae; certified by William Galloway, Clerk to the Circuit Court for Harford County; William H. Ricketts is Cecil County clerk.

1863/02/04

Grantor	Grantee	Parcel	Acreage	Lib:No:Fol	Type
H.M. Vanzant & wife Anna E. Vanzant	Samuel V. Mace, M.D.	[not stated]	[not stated]	WHR:5:497	Mortgage to Secure a Debt

February 4, 1863: Samuel V. Mace (Massey) M.D., of Cecil County in the State of Maryland, buys for $500.00 from H.M. Vanzant and his wife Anna E. Vanzant, also of Cecil County, all that parcel of land located in John Town near St. Paul's Methodist Episcopal Church in Cecil County and bounded by lands of William H. Emerson, Jeremiah C. Price, William H. Knock, and the public roads leading from John Town to Pearce's Nook, provided that if the said H.M. Vanzant shall pay on or before February 4, 1866, to the said Samuel V. Mace the sum of five hundred dollars with interest thereon from the present date, payable in three different payments as follows: One hundred and sixty eight dollars on or before February 4, 1864; one hundred and sixty six dollars on or before February 4, 1865, and the remaining one hundred and sixty six dollars on or before February 4, 1866, then this instrument of writing shall be null, void and of no effect. If default should occur, Samuel V. Mace has the authority to sell this parcel at public auction with appropriate notice. Witnesses: Justice of the Peace William L. Bell and E.E. Bell; W.H. Ricketts is Cecil County clerk.

1863/11/03

Grantor	Grantee	Parcel	Acreage	Lib:No:Fol	Type
Mary E. Hollingsworth	Thomas Massey & wife Eliza Jane Massey	Bohemia Manor	255+	WHR:6:40	Release of Mortgage

November 3, 1863: Thomas Massey and his wife Eliza Jane Massey olf Cecil County in the State of Maryland satisfy their mortgage of Bohemia Manor by completing their payment of $2,000.00 to Mary E. Hollingsworth, also of Cecil County, who hereby conveys title in the 255+ acre portion of Bohemia Manor to Thomas Massey and his wife Eliza Jane Massey. the original mortgage is recorded in Liber HHM No.1, Folio 47. This parcel was conveyed to Thomas Massey by Richard I. Foard and his wife Susan I. Foard by deed dated March 21, 1844 and recorded in Liber GMC No.6, Folio 166. Witness: Justice of the Peace William Torbert; W.H. Ricketts is Cecil County clerk [but did not sign this release.]

1864/02/09

Grantor	Grantee	Parcel	Acreage	Lib:No:Fol	Type
Samuel V. Mace	Susan Beaston	[not stated]	[not stated]	WHR:6:138	Mortgage to Secure a Debt

February 9, 1864: Samuel V. Mace (Massey) of Cecil County in the State of Maryland sells for $1,200.00 to Susan Beaston all that parcel located in the Village of Cecilton in Cecil County on the North side of the public road leading from Cecilton to the Village of Warwick and contained within the following metes and bounds: Beginning at a stone set in the ground at the South West corner of a lot of land conveyed by Thomas Ford and his wife Hellen [sic - GL,III, ed.] M. Ford to William J. Weldon, and running by and with said Weldon's lot North thirty nine and a half degrees East sixty one and 9/10 perches to the land of George Davis, then by and with said Davis's land North forty five degrees West twenty three and a half perches to a stone at the corner of Francis B. Crookshank's lot, then by and with said Crookshank's lot and others, South forty five and a half degrees West sixty seven and 8/10 perches, then North sixty four and a half degrees West five and 4/10 perches to a lot formerly belonging to the late Joshua Greenwood's heirs, then with said lot South twenty six degrees West five and 7/10 perches, then South thirty five degrees West four and 8/10 perches into the middle of the aforesaid public road, then by and with the said road South sixty seven degrees East seven perches, then South sixty and a half degrees East six perches, then South seventy two and three quarter degrees East twelve perches, then South eighty one and a half degrees East twelve and 3/10 perches to the place of beginning, containing [not stated], it being the same parcel that was conveyed to Samuel V. Mace by Thomas Ford and his wife Hellen M. Ford by deed dated December 11, 1858 and recorded in Liber HHM No.9, Folio 608. Should Samuel V. Mace satisfy this mortgage by repayment of the $1,200.00 debt on or before February 6, 1867, then this present conveyance become void and of no effect. Witnesses: Justices of the Peace L.M. Bracton and William H. Pearce; Charles H. Harris is Cecil County clerk. [There is a notation: Delivered to Washington Crookshank February 14, 1865 - GL,III, ed.]

1864/02/09

Grantor	Grantee	Parcel	Acreage	Lib:No:Fol	Type
Samuel V. Mace	Ann E. Vansant	[not stated]	[not stated]	WHR:7:82	Mortgage Assignment

February 9, 1864: Samuel V. Mace (Massey) of Cecil County in the State of Maryland sells for $527.50 to Ann E. Vansant all that property which is described in a deed of mortgage from Hamilton M. Vansant to the said Samuel V. Mace dated February 4, 1863 and recorded in Liber WHR No.5, Folio 497, the quantity of interest being conveyed being the interest of Samuel V. Mace under the said mortgage from and after the date of the present deed. Witness: Justice of the Peace William Torbert; W.H. Ricketts is Cecil County clerk [but did not sign this document - GL,III, ed.]

1865/01/02

Grantor	Grantee	Parcel	Acreage	Lib:No:Fol	Type
Isaac B. Parker	Samuel V. Mace	[not stated]	[not stated]	WHR:6:412	Release of Mortgage

January 2, 186[5]: Samuel V. Mace (Massey) of Cecil County in the State of Maryland pays the last $591.00 of the mortgage debt (which has been assigned by Richard D. Aiken) to Isaac B. Parker, and so title to the land used to secure the debt is hereby conveyed to Samuel V. Mace by the present deed. The relevant mortgage was recorded in Liber WHR No.3, Folio 264. Isaac B. Parker was assigned the balance of the mortgage by Richard D. Aiken by deed recorded in Liber WHR No.3, Folio 368. Witness: John Rodgers; certification of Isaac B. Parker in New Jersey was done by Notary Public John Rodgers; Charles H. Haines is Cecil County clerk.

1865/04/19

Grantor	Grantee	Parcel	Acreage	Lib:No:Fol	Type
Samuel V. Mace	John Piser	[not stated]	0.5	WHR:7:539	Deed

April 19, 1865: Samuel V. Mace of Cecil County in the State of Maryland sells for $1,500.00 to John Piser all that parcel of land located in the Town of Cecilton and contained within the following metes and bounds: Beginning at a stone buried in the ground in the public road leading from Cecilton to Saint Stephen's Church at the South West corner of a lot belonging to Thomas P. Jones, Esquire, and running thence North sixty degrees West five and a half perches, then North eighteen and a half degrees East fourteen and 8/10 perches, then South sixty degrees East five and a half perches, and from thence to the place of beginning, containing half an acre, it being the same parcel of land which was conveyed by Richard D. Atkinson (Aiken) and his wife Elizabeth A. Atkinson (Aiken) by deed dated January 2, 1860 and recorded in Liber WHR No.2, Folio 342. Witness: Justice of the Peace William H. Pearce; Charles H. Haines is Cecil County clerk.

1865/04/20

Grantor	Grantee	Parcel	Acreage	Lib:No:Fol	Type
John Piser & wife Arabella	Samuel V. Mace	[not stated]	0.5	WHR:6:517	Mortgage to Secure a Debt

April 20, 1865: Samuel V. Mace (Massey) of Cecil County in the State of Maryland buys for $1,000.00 from John Piser and his wife Arabella Piser all that parcel of land lying in the Town of Cecilton and which is contained within the following metes and bounds: Beginning at a stone buried in the ground in the public road leading from Cecilton to Saint Stephen's Church at the South West corner of a lot belonging to Thomas P. Jones, Esquire, and running thence North sixty degrees West five and a half perches, then North eighteen and a half degrees East fourteen and 8/10 perches, then South sixty degrees East five and a half perches, and from thence to the place of beginning, containing half an acre, it being the same piece of land which was conveyed to John Piser by Sameul V. Mace on this same day, provided that if we, John Piser and my wife Arabella Piser, pay to Samuel V. Mace $1,000.00 on or before April 19, 1866, then this mortgage shall be null and void. Witness: Justice of the Peace William N. Pearce; Charles H. Haines is Cecil County clerk. On the bottom of the record is this notation: I hereby release the foregoing mortgage; September 8, 1869 [signed] Thomas P. Jones, attorney for Dr. Samuel V. Mace, deceased. Witness: H.H. Gilpin.

1867/02/06

Grantor	Grantee	Parcel	Acreage	Lib:No:Fol	Type
Franklin Mace et al.	Susan Allen	Two town lots	[not stated]	HRT:1:392	Deed

February 6, 1867: William H. Mace (Massey) and his wife Henrietta M. Mace, Charles R. Mace, John H. Mace, Carville V. Mace, and Sophia V. Mace of Baltimore County, Alford Mace of Baltimore City, Franklin Mace and his wife Frances R. Mace of Montgomery County, and Thomas P. Jones and his wife Ann C. Jones of Cecil County, all in the State of Maryland, surviving heirs of the late Samuel V. Mace (Massey), deceased, of Cecil County, sell for $3,000.00 to Mrs. Susan N. Allen of Cecil County in fee simple all those two lots or parcels of land lying in Cecilton, Cecil County, Maryland, and which are described in deeds, one made by Thomas Ford and wife to Samuel V. Mace and recorded in HHM No.9, Folio 608, and the other made by William Reed and others to Samuel V. Mace and recorded in Liber WHR No.4, Folio 237. Witness: George Councilman and Justice of the Peace for the City of Baltimore W.H. Hebden; certified by Alford Mace and John Longnecker, Clerks of Superior Court of Baltimore City; notarized by John S. Hollingshead; Justice of the Peace William Hunter is Cecil County clerk.

Grantor	Grantee	Parcel	Acreage	Lib:No:Fol	Type

Grantor	Grantee	Parcel	Acreage	Lib:No:Fol	Type