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

Massey in the Land Record Files 1669-1868 for Dorchester County, Maryland

Date

Parcel

1659/01/03

Grantor	Grantee	Parcel	Acreage	Lib:No:Fol	Type
William Southbee	Nicholas Mace	Cedar Point	200	Old:1:26	Deed

January 3, 1659: Nicholas Mace, planter of Fishing Creek Hundred in Little Choptank River in Dorchester County in the Province of Maryland, buys for 3,500 pounds of tobacco from William Southbee, planter of Milows River in Talbritt (Talbot) County, a parcel called Cedar Point, lying on the Eastern Shore on the South side of Little Choptank River on the East side of Fishing Creek in Dorchester County within the following metes and bounds: Beginning at a marked cedar and running North East and by North one hundred perches to a marked red oak and bounded on the East by a line drawn South East and by East from the said red oak for three hundred and twenty perches, on the South by a line drawn South West and by South from the end of the South East and by East line one hundred perches to a marked cedar by a cove, on the West by a line drawn North West and by West down the said creek for three hundred and twenty perches to the first marked cedar, on the North with the said river, containing two hundred acres. Cedar Point is now in the possession of Nicholas Mace and was purchased by William Southby (Southbee) from John Gary of the Cliffs in Calvert County. Witnesses: Thomas Wall and John Faucett; Steven Gary acted as William Southbee's attorney; Edward Sauvage is Dorchester County clerk.

1663

Grantor	Grantee	Parcel	Acreage	Lib:No:Fol	Type
					Patent

1663: Cedar Point - 150 acres - 1663 - Thomas Baxter Patent - PR 6, p.256

1664

Grantor	Grantee	Parcel	Acreage	Lib:No:Fol	Type
					Patent

1664: Cedar Point - 200 acres - 1664 - John Gary Patent - PR 7, p.199

1664/07/28

Grantor	Grantee	Parcel	Acreage	Lib:No:Fol	Type
Peter Sharpe & wife Judeth	Nicholas Mace & Edward Taylor	Fishing Creek	150	Old:1:74	Patent Assignment

On the back side of a patent for Peter Sharpe for one hundred and fifty acres of land called Fishing Creek bearing date July 28, 1664, was written this following assignment:
I, Peter Sharpe, with the advice and consent of my wife, have bargained and sold unto Edward Taylor and Nicholas Mace all my right and title to this land to enjoy and possess forever. Witnesses: John Barber, Symon Cyncoe, and Charles Calvert. [Note: the following entry enables the plat to be drawn - GL,III, ed.]

1664/10/20

Grantor	Grantee	Parcel	Acreage	Lib:No:Fol	Type
Nicholas Mace	William Hill	Fishing Creek	150	Old:1:75	Deed

October 20, 1664: Nicholas Mace, planter of Dorchester County in the Province of Maryland, sells for 4,000 pounds of tobacco to William Hill, also planter of Dorchester County, a 150 acre parcel called Fishing Creek that was granted unto Peter Sharpe, planter, by the name of Color Sharpe, lying on the Eastern Shore and on the South side of Little Choptank River and on the West side of a creek called Fishing Creek within the following metes and bounds: Beginning at a marked cedar and bounded on the North by a line drawn East and by North from the said cedar for fifty perches to a marked white oak, on the East by a line drawn South East and by South from the said oak for four hundred and eighty perches to a marked pins upon a point, on the South by a line drawn West and by North from the said pine fifty perches to a marked white oak, on the West by a line drawn North West and by North from the end of the West and by North line four hundred and eighty perches to the fist marked cedar, containing one hundred and fifty acres. Witnesses: Henry Trippe and Edward Sauvage.

1664/10/20

Grantor	Grantee	Parcel	Acreage	Lib:No:Fol	Type
Nicholas Mace	William Hill	Fishing Creek	150	Old:1:79	Bond

October 20, 1664: Nicholas Mace, planter of Dorchester County in the Province of Maryland, executes a bond for 1,000 pounds of tobacco to William Mace to secure his full and lawful conveyance of the tract called Fishing Creek to William Hill. Witnesses: Henry Trippe and Edward Sauvage.

1667

Grantor	Grantee	Parcel	Acreage	Lib:No:Fol	Type
					Certificate

1667: Cedar Point - 100 acres - 1667 - William Merchant & James Mossley

1670

Grantor	Grantee	Parcel	Acreage	Lib:No:Fol	Type
					Patent

1670: Cedar Point - 100 acres - 1670 - Stephen Carey Patent - PR 14, p.128

1670

Grantor	Grantee	Parcel	Acreage	Lib:No:Fol	Type
					Patent

1670: The Head Range - 150 acres - 1670 - John Gary Patent - PR 14, p.179

1671

Grantor	Grantee	Parcel	Acreage	Lib:No:Fol	Type
					Patent

1671: Cornwall - 100 acres - 1671 - Stephen Garey Patent - PR 15, p.225

1675

Grantor	Grantee	Parcel	Acreage	Lib:No:Fol	Type
					Patent

1675: Cedar Point - 50 acres - 1675 - Edward Taylor Patent, PR 19, p.70

1680/03/01

Grantor	Grantee	Parcel	Acreage	Lib:No:Fol	Type
Nicholas Mace	Howard Taylor	Fishing Creek	[not stated]	Old:4:200	Deed

March 1, 1680: Nicholas Mace, planter of Dorchester County in the Province of Maryland sells for to Howard Taylor, also planter of Dorchester County, the land formerly bought from Peter Sharpe, lying in Fishing Creek within the following metes and bounds: Beginning at a marked cedar and running East and by North fifty perches to a marked oak, thence South East and by South to a small red oak by Fishing Creek, then West and by South the parallel line to the best [first ? - GL,III, ed.] line with a row of trees marked on the divisional line. Witnesses: Benjamin Hunt and William Smithson, who is Dorchester County clerk.

1681

Grantor	Grantee	Parcel	Acreage	Lib:No:Fol	Type
					Patent

1681: Diss (Dess) - 17 acres - 1681 - Henry Aldred Patent, PR CB No.2, p.349

1682

Grantor	Grantee	Parcel	Acreage	Lib:No:Fol	Type
					Patent

1682: The Head Range - 100 acres - 1682 - Peter Stokes Patent, PR CB No.3 p.117

1684

Grantor	Grantee	Parcel	Acreage	Lib:No:Fol	Type
					Patent

1684: White Haven - 50 Acres - 1684 - Anthony Thompson Patent PR IB & IL No.C, p.152

1692/09/05

Grantor	Grantee	Parcel	Acreage	Lib:No:Fol	Type
John Harwood	Nicholas Mace	Head Range	150	Old:5:7	Deed

September 5, 1692: Nicholas Mace, planter of Fishing Creek in Little Choptank River in Dorchester County Maryland, buys from John Harwood, carpenter, also of Dorchester County, for 4,500 pounds of tobacco that John Gary (Garie) of Calvert County paid in his lifetime, all that parcel called Head Range lying in Dorchester County on Little Choptank River at the head of Gatters Creek and contained within the following metes and Bounds: Beginning at a marked oak at the head of the Western branch of Gatters Creek and running South South East for a breadth of seventy five perches to a marked oak and from the said oak East North East three hundred and twenty perches to a marked hickory, and from the said hickory by a line drawn North North West seventy five perches to an oak and from thence to the [first] bounded tree, containing one hundred and fifty acres. Witnesses: Alexander A. Fisher and Benjamin Hunt and Justices of the Peace Henry Trippe and Jacob Lockerman.

1696

antor	Grantee	Parcel	Acreage	Lib:No:Fol	Type
					Patent

1696: Mace's Chance - 28 acres - 1696 - Josias Mace Patent - PR BB No.3, p.263

1684

Grantor	Grantee	Parcel	Acreage	Lib:No:Fol	Type
					Patent

1684: White Haven - 50 Acres - 1684 - Anthony Thompson Patent PR IB & IL No.C, p.152

1695

Grantor	Grantee	Parcel	Acreage	Lib:No:Fol	Type
					Patent

1695: The Outlett - 110 acres - 1695 - Nicholas Mase & Josias Mase Patent - PR C No.3, p.581

1695

Grantor	Grantee	Parcel	Acreage	Lib:No:Fol	Type
					Patent

1695: Green Bank - 25 acres - 1695- Anthony Thompson Patent - PR BB No.3, p.474

1703/12/04

Grantor	Grantee	Parcel	Acreage	Lib:No:Fol	Type
Stephen Warner	Nicholas Mace	Cornwell	[not stated]	Old:6:25	Deed

December 4, 1703: Nicholas Mace, planter of Dorchester County in the Province of Maryland, buys for 2,500 pounds of good merchantable leaf tobacco from Stephen Warner, also planter of Dorchester County, all that parcel called Cornwell lying on the East side of Chesapeake Bay in Dorchester County and contained within the following metes and bounds: Beginning at the head of Fishing Creek that runs into Little Choptank River at a marked red oak standing near the head of Fishing Creek and running thence South South East one hundred perches to another bounded white oak, and bounded on the South with a line drawn East North East one hundred and sixty perches, bounded on the East with a line drawn North North West one hundred perches, bounded on the North with a line drawn West South West one hundred and sixty perches until it intercepts parallels with the first bounded tree. Witnesses: Will. Douse and Nicholas Phillips; Hugh Eccleston is Dorchester County clerk.

1705/05/07

Grantor	Grantee	Parcel	Acreage	Lib:No:Fol	Type
Thomas Johnson and wife Elizabeth	Josias Macey	Brownes Rest; and Angels Hole	100; & 150	Old:6:64	D eed

May 7, 1705: Josias Macey (Massey) of Dorchester County in the Province of Maryland buys for 3,000 pounds of tobacco from Thomas Johnson and his wife Elizabeth of Centt (Kent) County one half share or moiety of the tract called Brownes Rest that is contained within the following metes and bounds: Beginning for breadth at a marked pine and running thence East and by South fifty perches to a marked oak standing by a swamp side, thence North and by East three hundred and twenty perches, bounding on the North by a line drawn West and by North till it meets with Tar Bay, binding on the West with Tar Bay, containing one hundred acres. Also one half share or moiety of a tract called Angels Hole, contained within the following courses: Beginning at a marked pine tree standing by a marsh side and running for breadth North East and by East fifty perches to a marked white oak by a marsh side, bounded on the North East with a line drawn North West and by North four hundred and eighty perches, bounded on the North West with a line drawn South West and by West till it intersects with Tar Bay, and by the said Tar Bay to the first pine tree, containing one hundred and fifty acres. John Robson is attorney for Thomas Johnson and his wife Elizabeth. Witnesses: John Phillips and John Meekins; Hugh Eccleston is Dorchester County clerk.

1712/08/11

Grantor	Grantee	Parcel	Acreage	Lib:No:Fol	Type
Josiah Macy and wife Angell	Joseph Gontoy, Senior	Catchellers Hope	150	Old:6:191	Deed

August 11, 1712: Josiah Macy (Massey) and wife Angell of Dorchester County in the Province of Maryland sell for 1,500 pounds of good merchantable leaf tobacco to Joseph Gontoy, Senior, planter, also of Dorchester County, all that tract called Catcheller's Hope formerly belonging to Honey Holt, deceased, lying on the North side of the marsh of Raccoon Creek that issues out of Blackwater River in the woods in Dorchester County and is contained within the following metes and bounds: Beginning at a marked pine lestanding in the murtol swamp near the aforesaid marsh, and from thence running North East and by East twenty five perches to another marked pine standing in another myrtle swamp, thence running North West and by North six hundred and forty perches, thence running South West and by [West or East ?] fifty perches, thence running by a straight line to the first marked pine, containing one hundred and fifty acres. Witnesses: Lewis Griffin and John Wingate; Jacob Lockerman is Dorchester County clerk.

1720/06/12

Grantor	Grantee	Parcel	Acreage	Lib:No:Fol	Type
Nicholas Mace and wife Ann	James Fookes	Cedar Point	200	Old:2:131	Deed

June 12, 1720: Nicholas Mace, planter, and his wife Ann of Dorchester County in the Province of Maryland sell for £70 to James Fookes, shipwright, also of Dorchester County, the 200 acre tract called Cedar Point, lying on the Eastern Shore on the South side of Little Choptank River and on the East side of Fishing Creek and contained within the following metes and bounds: Beginning at a marked cedar where now is set up a post of cedar and running for breadth North East and by North one hundred perches to a marked red oak, and bounded on the East by a line drawn South East and by East from the said red oak three hundred and twenty perches, on the South by a line drawn South West and by South from the end of the South East and by East line one hundred perches to a marked cedar by a cove, on the West by a line drawn North West by West down Fishing Creek three hundred and twenty perches to the first marked cedar, on the North with the said river, containing two hundred acres, excepting a twenty foot square of ground for a burying place. Witnesses: Roger Woolford and Joshua Kennerly.

1720/08/14

Grantor	Grantee	Parcel	Acreage	Lib:No:Fol	Type
Josias Mace & wife Angell, and William W. Wrotton & wife Hannah	Nicholas Mace, Senior	Cedar Point	200	Old:2:81	Deed

August 14, 1720: Josias Mace & wife Angell, and William Wrotton (Wroughton) & wife Hannah, all planters of Dorchester County in the Province of Maryland, sell for £20 and 3,000 pounds of good sound merchantable leaf tobacco to Nicholas Mace, Senior, also planter of Dorchester County, all the tract known as Cedar Point, lying on the East side of Chesapeake Bay on the South side of Little Choptank River and on the East side of Fishing Creek and contained within the following metes and bounds: Beginning at a marked cedar and running for breadth North East and by North one hundred perches to a marked red oak, bounded on the East by a line drawn South East and by East from the said red oak three hundred and twenty perches, on the South by a line drawn South West and by South from the end of the South East and by East line one hundred perches to a marked cedar by a cove, on the West by a line drawn North West and by West down Fishing Creek for three hundred and twenty perches to the first marked cedar, on the north with the said line, containing two hundred acres. Witnesses: John Kobson and Roger Woolford; Justin Good Lockerman is Dorchester County clerk.

1720/08/14

Grantor	Grantee	Parcel	Acreage	Lib:No:Fol	Type
Josias Mace & wife Angell	William W. Wrotton and wife Hannah	Cedar Point	200	Old:2:82	Power of Attorney

August 14, 1720: Josias Mace & wife Angell, planter of Dorchester County in the Province of Maryland, grants power of attorney to William W. Wrotton (Wroughton) and wife Hannah, also planter of Dorchester County, to execute the sale of Cedar Point to Nicholas Mace, Senior, also of Dorchester County. Witnesses: John Kobson and Roger Woolford; Justin Good Lockerman is Dorchester County clerk.

1721/08/07

Grantor	Grantee	Parcel	Acreage	Lib:No:Fol	Type
Joseph Woodward & wife Mary	Nicholas Mace, Junior	Dess	17	Old:8:28	Deed

August 7, 1721: Nicholas Mace, Junior, planter of Dorchester County in the Province of Maryland, buys for £4 from Joseph Woodward and his wife Mary, also planter of Dorchester County, all that tract called Dess, lying on the East side of Chesapeake Bay at the head of Short Beaver Dam Branch that comes out of Southys Beaver Dam Branch that issues out of Blackwater River in Dorchester County and which is contained within the following metes and bounds: Beginning at a marked oak standing in the woods near the head of said branch, and from thence running Est South East twenty eight perches to another marked oak, thence running South South West one hundred perches, thence running West North West twenty eight perches, thence running with a straight line to the first specified marked oak, containing seventeen acres, and recorded by certificate dated November 11, 1720 in the Land Office at St. Maries. Witnesses: John Brannock, Junior, Edmond Mace, and Leonard Milburne; Jacob Lockerman is Dorchester County clerk.

1723/07/15

Grantor	Grantee	Parcel	Acreage	Lib:No:Fol	Type
Nicholas Mace and wife Ann	Thomas Mace	Head Range, Comsock, & Outlet	[not stated]	Old:8:55a	Deed

July 15, 1723: Nicholas Mace, planter of Dorchester County in the Province of Maryland, grants to his son Thomas Mace, born of my wife Ann Massey, after my decease and my wife Ann Mace's decease, all that part of two tracts of land called Head Range and Comsock being that part towards my dwelling house and where my dwelling house now stands: Beginning at a white oak marked with six notches being the division tree of the aforesaid lands, thence running from the white oak South South East one hundred perches into the woods, the aforesaid division tree standing on the East side of a cove that runs up between Nicholas Mace's and the branches standing near the head of the cove and that part of land on the North East side of the division line, that part which I give to my son Thomas Mace; also the one moiety of another tract called Outlet also to have liberty to occupy or build upon the one half part of the above said lands, such half part as the aforesaid Nicholas Mace shall in reasonable equity think fit during the natural life of the aforesaid Nicholas Mace. Witnesses: Benjamin Labronsse, Rebecca Mills and Roger Wollford.

1726/09/27

Grantor	Grantee	Parcel	Acreage	Lib:No:Fol	Type
					Patent

September 27, 1726: Mace's Purchase - 174 acres - 1726 - Josias Mace Patent - PR PL No.6, p.337

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1727/08/22

Grantor	Grantee	Parcel	Acreage	Lib:No:Fol	Type
Angela Mace	Mary Mace and Susanna Mace	Browns Rest & Angels Hole	100 & 150	Old:8:162a	Deed of Gift

August 22, 1727: Angela (Angell) Mace, new widow of Josias Mace of Dorchester County in the Province of Maryland and daughter of Thomas Brown, late of Dorchester County, also deceased, gives outright to her daughters Mary Mace and Susanna Mace one half share or moiety of that 100 acre tract lying at the head of Tar Bay called Browns Rest as well as another one half share or moiety in the tract lying adjacent called Angels Hole, containing 150 acres. The gift carries with it the stipulation that the daughters are only to have use of the land to dwell upon until they marry and that any construction thereon to be sufficient only for a dwelling house and small garden. Witnesses: Roger Wollford (Dorchester County clerk) and Josias Mace (obviously signed before his death - GL,III,ed.)

1730/04/07

Grantor	Grantee	Parcel	Acreage	Lib:No:Fol	Type
Nicholas Mace	John Mace, Elizabeth Mace, Ann Mace Sharshane, and Thomas Mace	Slaves Tanfill and Janny	[none]	Old:8:410	Deed of Gift

April 7, 1730: Nicholas Mace of Dorchester County in the Province of Maryland gives to his son John Mace and daughter Elizabeth Mace one slave called Tanfill; should Elizabeth Mace marry, John Mace and his heirs of his body lawfully begotten to get her share of the slave Tanfill; likewise, one slave called Janny shall go to my daughter Ann Mace Sharshane and to the heirs of her body lawfully begotten; only the first child of the aforesaid woman slave shall go to my son Thomas Mace and the second to my daughter Ann Mace Sharshane; and all the aforesaid slaves shall remain and be for the use of my loving wife during her life and that she may have the work and occupation of them also during her life and then to go as above mentioned. Witnesses: Richard Cormack, Thomas Brannock, Junior, and Tobias Pollard.

1732

Grantor	Grantee	Parcel	Acreage	Lib:No:Fol	Type
					Patent

1732: Mace's Back Range - 100 acres - 1732 - Thomas Mace Patent - PR PL No.8, p.701

1733/08/28

Grantor	Grantee	Parcel	Acreage	Lib:No:Fol	Type
Ann Mace	Thomas Parker	Tobacco crop	[none]	Old:9:117	Deed

August 28, 1733: Ann Mace, widow of Dorchester County in the Province of Maryland, sells for 2,000 pounds of tobacco to Thomas Parker, merchant of Dorchester County, all her tobacco crop as well as tobacco stored on her land. Witnesses: Thomas Novell and Ephraim [illegible].

1741/01/27

Grantor	Grantee	Parcel	Acreage	Lib:No:Fol	Type
Edward Mardon	Thomas Mace	Hobs Kindness	100	Old:10:221	Power of Attorney & Deed

January 27, 1741: Edward Mardon, planter, initially of Dorchester County in the Province of Maryland and now of North Carolina, grants power of attorney to his friend Thomas Mace, also planter, of Dorchester County for the purpose of conveyance of his lands called Hobs Kindness for £25 to John Smith of Dorchester County, the metes and bounds of which are: Located at the East side of Chesapeake Bay and beginning at a marked red oak, the starting close by the mouth of a small branch that issues out of the North side of the North East branch of Coattses Creek and about four perches of the upper boundary of a tract called Jamses Park, then running North West one hundred and twenty seven perches, then North one hundred and forty two perches, then South fifty eight degrees East eighty perches, then South East one hundred and seventy perches, then by a straight line drawn to the said marked red oak, [containing] one hundred acres [All of the original patented tract - GL,III, ed.]. Witnesses: Thomas Nonott and William Murray.

1743/06/18

Grantor	Grantee	Parcel	Acreage	Lib:No:Fol	Type
Josias Mace	Joseph Shinton & Lewis Griffith	Wards Chance & Maces Purchase	28 & 118	Old:11:124	Deed

June 18, 1743: Josias Mace, planter of Dorchester County in the Province of Maryland, sells for £100 to Joseph Shinton & Lewis Griffith, planters, also of Dorchester County, all that tract called Ward's Chance that lies in Dorchester County on a Beaver Dam Branch called Southoy's Dam or Hodson's Branch that issues from Blackwater River and which is contained within the following metes and bounds: Beginning at a bounded poplar standing a little below the going over of the said dam, then running South by East twenty six perches, then West by South fifty perches, then South East and by South eight perches, then South and by West forty perches, then North West and by North eight perches, West and by South two degrees West fifty perches, then West North West twelve perches, then North and by West twenty six perches to the said Beaver Dam Branch, then by a straight line to the first tree, containing twenty eight acres. Also all that tract called Mace's Purchase that is located on the East side of the aforesaid dam or branch called Southoy's Dam alias Hodson's Branch, binding with the East side of the said branch and to be laid out according to the patent of the said land, containing one hundred and eighteen acres. Witnesses: Justices of the Peace J. Eccleston and Benjamin Keene.

1746/11/01

Grantor	Grantee	Parcel	Acreage	Lib:No:Fol	Type
					Patent

1746: Tootell's Venture - 370 acres - 1746 - John Tootell Patent - PR PT No.2, p. 242

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1747/04/16

Grantor	Grantee	Parcel	Acreage	Lib:No:Fol	Type
					Patent

1747: Ennalls Forrest of Friendship - 510 acres - 1747 - Henry Ennalls Patent - PR BT & BY No.3, p.382

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1747/10/17

Grantor	Grantee	Parcel	Acreage	Lib:No:Fol	Type
					Patent

October 17, 1747: Ennalls Addition, Bartholomew Ennalls, 100 Acres

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1752/06/15

Grantor	Grantee	Parcel	Acreage	Lib:No:Fol	Type
John Mace	Mason Shehawn	Goods and chattels	[none]	Old:14:621	Bill of Sale to Secure a Debt

June 15, 1752:John Mace, planter of Dorchester County in the Province of Maryland, for 1,809 pounds of tobacco and £34 8/-to him paid by Mason Shehawn became security to Doctor William Murray, and for which sum as security to indemnify the said Mason Shehawn, I, John Mace, do sell, make over and deliver unto Mason Shehawn the following articles: One cow and calf, one cow, two steers three years old, one steer t,wo years old, one bull, one heifer two years old marked with a cross, [illegible animal] ... slit in left ear, two horses, one called Fox, the other Friendship, Fox branded with I, Friendship with a pot hook, two blacknut [illegible] tables, seven pewter dishes, fourteen pewter plates, four pewter basins, three feather beds & furniture, three iron pots and two chests iron bound, four ewes and lambs, one ram, all the goods and several living creatures, etc. All these goods and animals to remain as security with Jon Mace unless Mason Shehawn pays the associated debt within one year from this date, in which case the sale becomes null and void. Witness: Justice of the Peace William Murray.

1752/09/15

Grantor	Grantee	Parcel	Acreage	Lib:No:Fol	Type
					Patent

September 15, 1752: Cornwell, Thomas Mace, 300 Acres.

1754/02/07

Grantor	Grantee	Parcel	Acreage	Lib:No:Fol	Type
John Mace and wife Mary	Jean Fishwick	Cornwell & Head Range	74	Old:15:32	Deed

February 7, 1754: John Mace and his wife Mary of Dorchester County in the Province of Maryland sell for £53 5/- to Jean Fishwick, daughter of the late William Fishwick, who made the payment before his death, the two tracts called Cornwell and Head Range lying at the head of Fishing Creek in Dorchester County and which are included within the following metes and bounds: Beginning at a marked pine tree being the first bounded tree of Cornwell and running thence South South East one hundred and ten perches, then East North East ninety four perches, then North North West ninety nine perches to a marked white oak, being a division tree between the aforesaid John Mace and Thomas Mace, thence running North twenty eight degrees East thirty perches, then South fifty seven degrees West fifty four perches, then North sixty degrees West forty four perches, then West South West eight perches to the beginning tree called head Range, then South twenty two degrees West forty perches to the first beginning, containing seventy four acres. [Afterwards comes some legal language involved in this transaction, perhaps due to the early demise of William Fishwick - GL,III, ed.] Witnesses: Justices of the Peace William Murray and J. Ermalls; Charles Dickenson is Dorchester County clerk.

1755

Grantor	Grantee	Parcel	Acreage	Lib:No:Fol	Type
					Patent

1755: Priviledge - 25 acres - 1755 - John Hurley, PR BC & GS No.4, p.54

1756/12/01

Grantor	Grantee	Parcel	Acreage	Lib:No:Fol	Type
Josiah Mace, Junior	Josiah Mace, Senior	[none mentioned]	[not stated]	Old:16:50	Land Valuation

December 1, 1756: Josiah Mace, Junior, orphaned son of the late Josiah Mace, Senior, requests that the land he inherited be evaluated and a guardian selected for him. Thomas Jones and Roger Jones were selected to perform the valuation, and Josiah Mace selected Henry Wales, tailor, to be his guardian. The premises in question were accordingly visited and an inventory made: A rotten fence, one log house, rotten, covering another old house 15 by 10 [feet] not worth repairing, twenty five apple trees; we therefore think and order that Henry Wales pay the orphaned Josiah Mace three hundred and fifty pounds of tobacco yearly and every year, beginning from December 1, 1757, and likewise deliver him, the said orphan, the aforesaid land and all rents and arrears of rents due his part of the said land and to leave them in the same repair as the houses, excepted as it is at this time and to liberty to clear three acres of land with liberty to cut rail timber for the use of the plantation, and to be left on the plantation [until] the orphan arrive at the age of twenty one. [signed] Thomas Jones .... Roger Jones. Memorandum: Thomas Jones and Roger Jones were duly qualified by John Jones on December 1, 1756 under law to perform the valuation.

1763

Grantor	Grantee	Parcel	Acreage	Lib:No:Fol	Type
					Patent

1763: Tinian - 30 acres - 1763 - Nicholas Mace - PR BC & GS No.24, p.88

1764/05/05

Grantor	Grantee	Parcel	Acreage	Lib:No:Fol	Type
					Patent

1764: Mace's Back Range - 427 acres - 1764 - Thomas Mace Patent - PR BC & GS No.24, p.255

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1764/06/24

Grantor	Grantee	Parcel	Acreage	Lib:No:Fol	Type
					Patent

1764: White Haven - 177 acres - 1764 - Absalom Thompson Patent - PR BC & GS No.28, p.381

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1765/06/11

Grantor	Grantee	Parcel	Acreage	Lib:No:Fol	Type
Josias Mace & wife Anna	Jonathan Wood	Maces Purchase & Outlet	54 & 55	Old:20:83	Deed

June 11, 1765: Josias Mace, planter of Dorchester County in the Province of Maryland, sells for £111 to Jonathan Wood, shipwright, also of Dorchester County, 54 acres of the tract called Mace's Purchase that lies on the West side of Hodson's Branch and 55 acres of the tract called Outlet that was formerly taken up between Josias Mace, the grandfather of the present Josias Mace, and Nicholas Mace, the brother of Josias Mace, the grandfather as by the Last Will and Testament of Josias Mace the grandfather. Acting for the Crown: as witnesses: Justices of the Peace Dan Sullivan and Thomas White; Charles Dickinson is Dorchester County clerk.

1766/06/13

Grantor	Grantee	Parcel	Acreage	Lib:No:Fol	Type
Leven Woollford & wife Mary	Josias Mace	Grace	60	Old:21:7	Deed

June 13, 1766: Josias Mace of Dorchester County in the Province of Maryland buys for £60 from Leven Woollford and his wife Mary, also of Dorchester County, the tract called Grace, lying in Dorchester County and which is included within the following metes and bounds: Beginning from a marked pine, a bounded tree of the aforesaid land standing at the head of [three illegible words] North West and by West eighty two perches, then North East and by East half a point Easterly ten perches, then North forty two degrees West forty five perches, and from thence begin the lands bargained and sold and running the following courses: North seventy four degrees East one hundred and fifty eight perches, then North thirty three degrees West seventy one perches, then South seventy four degrees West eighty four perches, then East and by South thirty five perches, then South six degrees West seventy six perches, then South seventy four degrees East twelve perches, then with a straight line to the beginning, containing sixty acres. Witnesses: Justices of the Peace Benjamin Keene and Daniel Sullivan; Charles Dickinson is Dorchester County clerk.

1766/09/09

Grantor	Grantee	Parcel	Acreage	Lib:No:Fol	Type
Thomas Mace, Sr.	Thomas Mace, Jr.	Maces Back Range & Cornwell	77 & 61	Old:21:117	Deed

September 9, 1766: Thomas Mace, [Senior] planter of Dorchester County in the Province of Maryland, sells for £10 to Thomas Mace [Junior] son of the aforesaid Thomas Mace, all that 77 acre parcel called Mace's Back Range, and a 61 acre part of the parcel called Cornwell, both lying in Dorchester County, adjoining and contiguous to each other, within the following metes and bounds: Beginning at a marked gum standing in Hodson's Branch, then running up the said branch North eight degrees East fifty three perches, then North forty degrees East forty perches to another marked gum, then North ten degrees West one hundred and seventy perches, then West South West ninety four perches to [yet another] marked gum standing at the end of a division line between John Mace and the said Thomas Mace, the younger, and from thence South one hundred and ninety perches to a marked maple standing on the side of the said branch, containing by implication one hundred and thirty eight acres. Witnesses: Justices of the Peace Dan. Sullivan and John Campbell; Charles Dickinson is Dorchester County clerk.

1766/09/09

Grantor	Grantee	Parcel	Acreage	Lib:No:Fol	Type
Thomas Mace, Sr.	John Mace	Maces Back Range, Cornwell & Outlet	66; 25 & 21	Old:21:120	Deed

September 9, 1766: Thomas Mace, [Senior] planter of Dorchester County in the Province of Maryland, sells for £10 to John Mace, son of the aforesaid Thomas Mace, a 66 acre portion of the tract called Mace's back Range, 25 acres of the tract called Cornwell, and 21 acres of the tract called Outlet, all lying contiguous to and adjoining each other in Dorchester County, and to the West of a line drawn North from a marked maple standing by the [side] of a branch called Hodson's Branch, being a division line between Thomasd Mace, son of the said Thomas Mace, and John Mace, to a marked gum one hundred and ninety perches, then South seventy five degrees West one hundred and twelve perches to a marked white oak standing on the West side of the aforesaid tract called Outlet, being a division line between Nicholas Mace and the said John Mace.

1766/09/09

Grantor	Grantee	Parcel	Acreage	Lib:No:Fol	Type
Thomas Mace, Sr.	Edmond Mace	Dess, Maces Back Range, & Cornwell	17; 284; & 76	Old:21:121	Deed

September 9, 1766: Thomas Mace, [Senior] planter of Dorchester County in the Province of Maryland, sells for £10 to Edmond Mace, son of the aforesaid Thomas Mace, all the 17 acre tract of land called Dess, lying on the East side of Chesapeake Bay in Dorchester County at the head of a short Beaver Dam Branch that comes out of Southey's Beaver Dam Branch that issues out of Blackwater River within the following metes and Bounds: Beginning at a marked oak standing in the woods near the head of the said branch and running according to the original metes and bounds as mentioned in the patent of Dess, containing seventeen acres; also a part of another tract called Mace's Back Range containing two hundred and eighty four acres; and a part of the tract called Cornwell containing seventy six acres; the said [last] two parts of the aforesaid two tracts of land lying to the Eastward and Southward of a line beginning at a marked gum standing in Hodson's Branch, then running up that branch North eight degrees East fifty three perches, then North forty degrees East forty perches to another marked gum, then North ten degrees West one hundred and seventy perches to a marked red oak, then East South East fifty four perches, which said two parts of [the last] two tracts are contiguous to and adjoining each other, containing three hundred and sixty acres. Witnesses: Justices of the Peace Dan. Sullivan and John Campbell; Charles Dickinson is Dorchester County clerk.

1772/10/02

Grantor	Grantee	Parcel	Acreage	Lib:No:Fol	Type
Thomas Mace, Sen.	John Mace	Cornwell & Outlett	2.0	Old:26:21	Deed

October 2, 1772: Thomas Mace, Senior, of Dorchester County in the Province of Maryland, sells for £2 to John Mace, also of Dorchester County, parts of the tracts called Cornwell and Outlett, which are contained within the following metes and bounds: Beginning at a marked gum being the division tree between Thomas Mace, Junior, and the said John Mace and running from thence with a straight line to a cedar post standing in the head of a gut [?] which is the head of the Church Creek and which Gut is to the Westward of the dwelling house of Thomas Mace, Senior, and from the said post two perches wide back o the beginning gum tree, containing two acres. Witnesses: Justices of the Peace John Goldsborough and James Tootell; Henry Dickinson is Dorchester County clerk.

1774/08/11

Grantor	Grantee	Parcel	Acreage	Lib:No:Fol	Type
Nicholas Mace	[same]	Cornwell		Old:27:304	Commission

August 11, 1774: Nicholas Mace asks for and is granted a commission to reestablish the boundaries of his tract called Cornwell; the commission is composed of the substantial and capable landowners: Thomas Jones, Stevens Woolford, John Anderson, and Arthur Whitely. D.Sprigg is Dorchester County clerk. Thomas Jones and Stevens Woolford took over this task and obtained the following depositions: (1) Absalom Thompson, age about sixty one, described the stump of a tree that he had heard from James Busick that is was Mace's boundary, but that the stump was marked instead of the first boundary which stood near by; (2) James Busick, age about fifty two, stated that the aforesaid stump was the boundary of Cornwell as he had heard directly from Nicholas Mace and Thomas Mace; and also that he heard John Mace also describe the stump as the boundary of Cornwell; (3) Colman Mace, age about forty three, said that he heard his father and many others say that the stump in question was marked for the first boundary of Cornwell; and (4) Absalom Thompson - again - now at another stump - said that John Mace took him to this place and told him that this white oak was the original boundary. Accordingly, the commissioners put down new cedar posts at the positions of the two original boundary trees.

1779/03/15

Grantor	Grantee	Parcel	Acreage	Lib:No:Fol	Type
Edmond Mace	Thomas Colsten	Maces Back Range	75 & 5	JCH:1:174	Deed

March 15, 1779: Edmund (Edmond) Mace, planter of Dorchester County in the Province of Maryland, sells for £60 to Thomas Colsten, carpenter, also of Dorchester County, (1) a 75 acre part of the tract called Mace's Back Range, lying in Dorchester County within the following metes and bounds: Beginning at a marked red oak standing at the end of one hundred and seventeen perches on the North sixty degrees West line, it being the forty second course of the aforesaid tract, and from thence running North seventeen degrees East one hundred and forty one perches, then South thirty four degrees East one hundred and fifty perches, then South South West seventy two perches, then to the aforesaid first beginning, containing seventy five acres. (2) Another part of the same tract which is contained within the following courses: Beginning at a marked poplar, it being the original boundary or beginning of a tract of land called Blackford, and from thence running South fifty eight degrees West thirty five perches, then North twenty degrees East eighteen perches, then North fifty seven degrees West ten perches, then North eight degrees East twenty six perches, then East twelve perches, then with a straight line to the beginning, containing five acres. Witnesses: Justices of the Peace Benjamin Keene and Henry Lake.

1780/03/07

Grantor	Grantee	Parcel	Acreage	Lib:No:Fol	Type
Thomas Callendar	John Mace	Tootells Venture	18	JCH:1:314	Deed

March 7, 1780: John Mace, planter of Dorchester County in the Province of Maryland, buys for eighteen pounds in gold from Thomas Callendar, also of Dorchester County, all that 18 acre part of a tract called Tootell's Venture, lying upon a branch of Blackwater River called Hodsons Branch in Dorchester County, lying between a tract called Mace's Purchase and another tract called Mace's Back Range, beginning at a marked post standing near the land called Mace's Purchase and which is contained within the following metes and bounds: Beginning at the said post and running thence South and by West eighty eight perches with the land called Mace's Purchase, then North east one hundred and forty four perches to the land called Mace's Back Range, then North seventy degrees West thirty two perches, then South South West to the said marked post, containing eighteen acres. Witnesses: Justices of the Peace Thomas Jones and Henry Lake.

1780/03/17

Grantor	Grantee	Parcel	Acreage	Lib:No:Fol	Type
Nehemiah Vickars and wife Nancy	John Mace	Head Range	9	JCH:1:311	Deed

March 17, 1780: John Mace, planter of Dorchester County in the Province of Maryland buys for three pounds in gold from Nehemiah Vickars and his wife Nancy, planter, also of Dorchester County, a 9 acre portion of that part of a tract called Head Range that lies in Dorchester County on the West side of a cove that runs up between Nicholas Mace's and James Besick's commonly called the Indian Gut, and which is contained within the following metes and bounds: Beginning at a marked post put down in the room of the first boundary of the aforesaid tract and thence running East North East twenty perches, then South sixty degrees East twenty five perches, then North fifty seven degrees East fifty four perches, then South twenty eight degrees West eleven perches, then North forty seven degrees East eighteen perches, then North twenty degrees East ten perches, then North forty four degrees East nine perches, and from thence with a straight line to the beginning, containing nine acres. Witnesses: Justices of the Peace Henry Lake and Thomas Jones. Thence follows this statement: We hereby certify that the within named John Mace acted for and on our parts and behalf in carrying on the lawsuit against a certain James Busick whereby we recovered a judgment for the within bargained and sold land and premises out of Dorchester County Court by virtue of a a lease of ejectment brought against the said James Busick on May 10, 1774, he the said John Mace paying the sixpence of the said suit for us. In witness whereof we have set our hands the day and year aforesaid.

Nehemiah Vickers

1783/07/05

Grantor	Grantee	Parcel	Acreage	Lib:No:Fol	Type
Nicholas Mace	George Robinson	Dwelling Plantation	[not stated]	NH:2-4:169	Deed of Lease

July 5, 1783: Nicholas Mace, Senior, planter of Dorchester County in the State of Maryland, leases for 40/- per year to George Robinson, schoolmaster of Dorchester County, part of the Dwelling Plantation lying in Dorchester County at the head of Fishing Creek and enclosed within the following metes and bounds: Beginning at the Westward end of an orchard lying on the North side of the road leading through the said plantation, and thence running and binding with the said road and creek as far as the said Nicholas Mace's Land extends or to the division line between him and the plantation where John Ross now lives, together with the right to cut firewood or lumber for building or fencing improvements and to graze three horses, four cattle, ten sheep in any of the pastures belonging to the said Nicholas Mace and to range hogs in the woods, for a term of twelve years. George Robinson is to be allowed a reasonable sum to be determined by indifferent men, less a deductible of £10 pounds, for improvements made over the course of his twelve year term. Witnesses: Justices of the Peace Thomas Jones and Thomas F. Eccleston.

1783/11/15

Grantor	Grantee	Parcel	Acreage	Lib:No:Fol	Type
					Patent

November 15, 1783: Colstons First Purchase, Thomas Colston, Jr., 130 Acres.

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1784/03/24

Grantor	Grantee	Parcel	Acreage	Lib:No:Fol	Type
					Patent

March 24, 1784: Middle Ground, Thomas Colsten, 112 Acres.

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1784/05/25

Grantor	Grantee	Parcel	Acreage	Lib:No:Fol	Type
Edmond Mace, Junior, and wife Mary	Thomas Colston	Maces Back Range & Dess	1.0 & 4.0	NH:2-4:320	Deed

May 25, 1784: Edmond (Edmund) Mace, Junior, and his wife Mary of Dorchester County in the State of Maryland sell for £3 to Thomas Colsten (Colston), carpenter, also of Dorchester County: (1) A 1.0 acre portion of the parcel called Mace's Back Range, lying in Dorchester County, and which is included within the following metes and bounds: Beginning at a marked post standing at the end of the third course of Mace's Back Range (it being the North eighty four degrees West line) and running thence South ten degrees East eighteen perches, then South thirty degrees East thirty four perches, then South fifty eight degrees West thirty five perches, then North twenty degrees East eighteen perches, then North fifty seven degrees West ten perches, then North eight degrees East forty four perches, then to the aforesaid place of beginning, containing one acre; (2) Another portion, 4.0 acres, of Mace's Back Range which is included within the following metes and bounds: Beginning at a marked post standing at the end of the second course of the tract called Dess, and from thence running North eighty two degrees East thirty two perches, then South South West fifty six perches, then West North West thirty two perches, then to the aforesaid beginning, containing four acres. Witnesses: Justices of the Peace Benjamin Keene and Thomas Jones.

1784/05/25

Grantor	Grantee	Parcel	Acreage	Lib:No:Fol	Type
Thomas Thompson	Thomas Colston	Old White Haven and Addition to White Haven	18	NH:2-4:323	Deed

May 25, 1784: Thomas Thompson and his wife Priscilla of Dorchester County in the State of Maryland sell for £15 to Thomas Colsten (Colston), carpenter, also of Dorchester County, parts of the tract called Old White Haven as well as the tract called Addition to White Haven, lying in Dorchester County on the North side of Fishing Creek and contained within the following metes and bounds: Beginning from the out lines of said parts of the aforesaid tracts at a marked cedar post which is standing on the home line of a tract called Head Range and at the water side, and from thence running North four degrees West eighteen perches, then East North East twenty four perches, then South East five perches, then East North East one hundred and three perches, then North seven degrees East eighty eight perches, then South eighty degrees East nine perches to a tract called Tinian, then South seven degrees West seventy three perches, then South thirty seven degrees East seventeen perches, then South South East seventy six perches, then West South West six perches, then North North West seventy one perches, then to the aforesaid first specified beginning, containing eighteen acres. Witnesses: Justices of the Peace Benjamin Keene and Thomas Jones.

1784/05/25

Grantor	Grantee	Parcel	Acreage	Lib:No:Fol	Type
Thomas Colston	Edmond Mace	Colstens First Purchase	3.0	NH:2-4:367	Deed

May 25, 1784: Edmond Mace, planter of Dorchester County in the State of Maryland, buys for £3 from Thomas Colsten (Colston), carpenter, also of Dorchester County, 3.0 acres of that tract called Colsten's First Purchase that is contained within the following metes and bounds: Beginning at a marked red oak standing at the end of one hundred and seventeen perches on the North sixty degrees West line, it being the fortieth second course of Mace's Back Range, and from thence running North sixty degrees West forty eight perches, then South seventeen degrees West nine perches, then South sixty degrees East forty eight perches, then to the aforesaid first beginning, containing three acres. Witnesses: Justices of the Peace Benjamin Keene and Thomas Jones.

1784/09/11

Grantor	Grantee	Parcel	Acreage	Lib:No:Fol	Type
Thomas Kallendar	George Williams	Dwelling Plantation	[not stated]	NH:2-4:479	Deed of Lease

September 11, 1784: Thomas Kallendar, shipwright of Dorchester County and State of Maryland, leases for £8 10/- yearly rent to George Williams, also of Dorchester County, a parcel whose lease George Robinson assigned to Thomas Kallendar and which lease was given to George Robinson by Nicholas Massey, said lease bearing the date of April 8, 1783, and running thence for a term of twelve years. The parcel under lease is contained within the following metes and bounds: Beginning next to the orchard of the aforesaid Nicholas Mace and as far towards the head of the cove as the bottom of the valley between Sawyard Point and the hill where the cedar stands between the said point and the orchard of the said Nicholas Mace, that is to say, the whole part of the lot therein contained, together with the right to cut firewood or lumber for building or fencing improvements and to graze three horses, four cattle, ten sheep in any of the pastures belonging to the said Nicholas Mace, for the term of twelve years. The rent is to be paid in gold or silver or in Spanish milled dollars, estimating them at 5/- 6p each, or in Half Joes (Johannes) at £3 each. [There is additional language requiring sufficient notice and security if the parcel is leased to someone else - GL,III, ed.] Witnesses: Bartholomew Warren and William Meddiss (Medes). There follows the deposition of Edmund Brannock of Dorchester County, age about seventy two, regarding the forefathers of Nicholas Mace, Senior: This Nicholas Mace, Senior, was son to Thomas Mace, deceased, who was son to Nicholas Mace, deceased, who claimed land near Town Point in Dorchester County, and that in those times they were called by the name Massey; and further the deponent saith not on September 19,1784. Witness: Thomas Jones.

1784/09/27

Grantor	Grantee	Parcel	Acreage	Lib:No:Fol	Type
Nicholas Mace, Senior	Nicholas Mace, Junior	Cornwell, Head Range, and Outlett	66.5	NH:2-4:481	Deed

September 27, 1784: Nicholas Mace, Senior, planter of Dorchester County in the State of Maryland, sells for £10 to his son. Nicholas, Mace, Junior, also of Dorchester County, 66-1/2 acres in two tracts lying in Dorchester County known as Cornwell and Head Range as well as another tract called Outlett, which said parts of the aforesaid tracts are contiguous and adjacent to each other, and are contained within the following metes and bounds: Beginning at a marked white oak standing on the South side of a gut called Indian Gut, it being a division formerly between Thomas Mace and John Mace, deceased, then running South South East one hundred and eight perches to the east North East line of Cornwell, then with the said line East North East twenty four perches, then South South West sixty two perches, then North seventy five degrees East fifty seven perches, then North North East forty perches, then North twenty two degrees West one hundred and thirty one perches, then North seventy degrees East twenty perches with the main road to the creek, then binding with the said creek North thirty degrees West forty perches, then binding with the creek and Indian Gut to the first beginning, containing sixty six and a half acres.Witnesses: Justices of the Peace Thomas Jones and Thomas F. Eccleston.

1784/09/27

Grantor	Grantee	Parcel	Acreage	Lib:No:Fol	Type
Nicholas Mace, Senior	James Mace and Louden (Lowden) Mace	[not stated]	[not stated]	NH:2-4:484	Deed

September 27, 1784: Nicholas Mace, Senior, planter of Dorchester County in the State of Maryland, sells for 5/- to James Mace, son of the aforesaid Nicholas Mace and for 5/- Louden (Lowden) Mace, the son of the aforesaid James Mace and grandson of the aforesaid Nicholas Mace, for the natural life of James Mace, and after his demise, to Loudon Mace forever, all those lands to the Northward, Eastward, Southward and Westward of the several lines and courses mentioned in the deed from Nicholas Mace, Senior, to his son, Nicholas Mace, Junior, dated the same day as these presents [i.e. Liber NH No.2-4, Folio 481 - GL,III, ed.] Witnesses: Justices of the Peace Thomas Jones and Thomas F. Eccleston.

1784/10/19

Grantor	Grantee	Parcel	Acreage	Lib:No:Fol	Type
					Patent

October 19, 1784: Addition To Green Bank, Thomas Colsten, 62 1/2 Acres, 24 Perches.

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1785/02/25

Grantor	Grantee	Parcel	Acreage	Lib:No:Fol	Type
					Patent

February 25, 1785: Privilege, Thomas Colsten, 14 Acres.

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1785/10/12

Grantor	Grantee	Parcel	Acreage	Lib:No:Fol	Type
James Mace	Thomas Mace	[not stated]	[not stated]	NH:5-8:214	Lease

October 12, 1785: James Mace of Dorchester County in the State of Maryland leases for £5 yearly rent to Thomas Mace, also of Dorchester County, all that lot or part of land whereon Edward Mills now lives and rented of the said James Mace on Fishing Creek, along with the liberty to cut firewood and timber for fencing and building or repairing the said lot. The term of the lease is seven years, starting January 1, 1786. Witnesses: Bartholomew Ennalls, James Bryan, and William Medes (Meddiss).

1785/10/15

Grantor	Grantee	Parcel	Acreage	Lib:No:Fol	Type
George Robinson	Thomas Kallendar	[not stated]	[not stated]	NH:5-8:266	Deed of Lease

October 15, 1785: Be it remembered that the deed of lease from Nicholas Mace to George Robinson, already recorded in Liber NH No.2 folio 169, was again presented [today] with the following assignment thereon written: George Robinson, for and in consideration of £65 in specie to be paid before June 1, 1786 by Thomas Kallendar, hereby conveys all liberties to the said land, excepting that liberty to cut timber for building on the lot of land mentioned in the lease, for the term of years therein mentioned, Thomas Kallendar paying the yearly rent of 40/- to Nicholas Mace. Witnesses: Bartholomew Warren and John Warren.

1785/10/15

Grantor	Grantee	Parcel	Acreage	Lib:No:Fol	Type
Thomas Kallendar	Nicholas Mace	[not stated]	[not stated]	NH:5-8:267	Assignment of Lease

October 15, 1785: Thomas Kallendar states: I hereby certify that I do assign all my right, title, claim and interest of in and to a lease, that is assigned to me by George Robinson, to Nicholas Mace ... during the said term and that Nicholas Mace shall have all the profits and advantages arising from the said lease. Witness: John Williams.

1786/02/14

Grantor	Grantee	Parcel	Acreage	Lib:No:Fol	Type
James Mace	James Dail	Head Range	2	NH:5-8:287	Deed of Lease

February 14, 1786: James Mace, planter of Dorchester County in the State of Maryland, leases for £50 [one-time payment - GL,III, ed.] to Jamed Dail, blacksmith of Dorchester county, all that part of a tract called Head Range lying at the head of Fishing Creek in Dorchester County, formerly in the possession of Robert Ewing and now in the possession of James Dail, that is enclosed within the following metes and bounds: Beginning at the upper bridge, which is erected over Fishing Creek, and from thence running to the lower bridge across the said creek, then running with and bounded by the said creek according to several meanders and courses thereof by the two aforesaid bridges, and by the main road which runs between the said bridges, estimated to contain two acres. James Dail is to have free use of the land, including the liberty to cut timber for use on the land and to pasture one horse and one cow & calf, for the period ending December 1, 1796. Witnesses: Justices of the Peace Edward Noel and Joseph Richardson.

1786/02/27

Grantor	Grantee	Parcel	Acreage	Lib:No:Fol	Type
James Mace	Thomas Colston	Head Range vs. White Haven	18	NH:5-8:304	Deed of Release

February 27, 1786: James Mace, planter of Dorchester County in the State of Maryland, for the sum of £5 to him in hand paid acknowledges to Thomas Colsten (Colston), carpenter of Dorchester County, regarding disputes over the courses and bounds of James Mace's tract called Head Range, lying in Dorchester County on Fishing Creek, that the home course of Head Range formerly and anciently did run on the same plave where a cedar post marked with twelve notches now stands, which cedar post was set down by the water side by Thomas Thompson and the aforesaid Thomas Colsten (Colston) as the beginning of eighteen acres of land, part of a tract called White Haven, which was lately conveyed by Thomas Thompson to Thomas Colsten, and which cedar post stands in the aforesaid home line of Head Range near the edge of the water and at the end of a line drawn South thirty eight degrees West twenty five perches and about four feet from the East corner of a store house lately built by and belonging to Archibald Patison, and also at the end of a line drawn South thirty degrees West thirteen perches and five feet from the South West corner of the dwelling house lately built by the aforesaid Thomas Colsten wherein Col. Thomas Woolford now lives. Witnesses: Justices of the Peace Benjamin Keene and Thomas Jones.

1786/02/28

Grantor	Grantee	Parcel	Acreage	Lib:No:Fol	Type
Thomas Thompson and wife Priscilla	Archibald Patison	White Haven	3.25	NH:5-8:306	Deed

February 28, 1786: Thomas Thompson and his wife Priscilla of Dorchester County in the State of Maryland sell for £9 15/- to Archibald Patison, also of Dorchester County, 3-1/4 acres of that part of a tract called White Haven, lying on the East side of Fishing Creek in Dorchester County and contained within the following metes and bounds: Beginning at the end of the third course of the first parcel mentioned to be conveyed in a deed from the aforesaid Thomas Thompson and wife to Thomas Colsten (Colston), the said third course being the South East five perches course, bearing equal date with this present deed, and from thence running North West with the said third course reversed five perches and ten feet, then East North East one hundred and twelve perches and until it intersects the fifth course (being North seven degrees East eighty six perches) of the said parcel as as conveyed to aforesaid Thomas Thompson and wife to Thomas Colsten, then South seven degrees West six perches with the aforesaid fifth course reversed to the end thereof, then binding with the East North East line of the aforesaid parcel conveyed by Thomas Thompson and wife to Thomas Colsten reversed to the aforesaid beginning, containing three and a quarter acres. Witnesses: Justices of the Peace Benjamin Keene and Thomas Jones.

1786/02/28

Grantor	Grantee	Parcel	Acreage	Lib:No:Fol	Type
Thomas Thompson and wife Priscilla	Thomas Colston	White Haven (a.k.a. Old White Haven) and Addition to White Haven	18 & 1.0	NH:5-8:309	Deed

February 28, 1786: Thomas Thompson, planter, and his wife Priscilla of Dorchester County in the State of Maryland, sell for £5 to Thomas Colsten (Colston), carpenter, also of Dorchester County: (1) 18 acres of the parcels called White Haven (a.k.a. Old White Haven) and Addition to White Haven, lying on the North side of Fishing Creek in Dorchester County, which are both contained within the following metes and bounds: Beginning at a cedar post marked with twelve notches standing on the East side of Fishing Creek and near the edge of the water and in the home line of a tract called Head Range, it being the same cedar post mentioned and described in a deed from James Mace to the aforesaid Thomas Colsten bearing the date of May 14, 1784, and from the aforesaid cedar post running North four degrees West eighteen perches, then East North East twenty four perches, then South East five perches, then East North East one hundred and seven perches, then North seven degrees East eighty six perches, then South eighty degrees East nine perches until it intersects the land of James Mace called Tynian (Tinian), then binding with that land South seven degrees West seventy three perches, then South thirty seven degrees East seventeen perches, then South South East seventy six perches, then West South West six perches to the land called Head Range, then with Head Range North North West seventy five perches, then still binding with Head Range to the aforesaid beginning, containing eighteen acres; and (2) Also, a 1.0 acre portion of the same tracts which are included within the following metes and bounds: Beginning at the same before-mentioned cedar post, and running thence West South West one perch, then North sixteen degrees West twenty five perches, then North sixty five degrees East fifteen perches, then South thirty one degrees East ten perches, then West South West nine perches, then with a straight line to the aforesaid beginning, containing one acre. Witnesses: Justices of the Peace Benjamin Keene and Thomas Jones.

1786/02/28

Grantor	Grantee	Parcel	Acreage	Lib:No:Fol	Type
Thomas Colston and wife Elizabeth	Archibald Patison	Colstens First Purchase and Middle Ground (as one)	100	NH:5-8:312	Deed

February 28, 1786: Thomas Colsten (Colston), carpenter, and his wife Elizabeth of Dorchester County in the State of Maryland sell for £112 10/- to Archibald Patison, merchant, also of Dorchester County, the tract called Colston's First Purchase, lying in Dorchester County as well as the tract called Middle Ground, also in Dorchester County, and contained within the following metes and bounds: Beginning at a bounded white gum standing on the East side of the main road that runs from Fishing Creek to Blackwater Bridge, it being the original boundary of the tract called Middle Ground, and from thence running South seventeen degrees West seventy perches, then North forty four degrees east one hundred and fifty perches, then South eighty two degrees East sixty perches, then North seventy degrees West ninety one perches, then North twenty degrees East twenty seven perches, then West nine perches, then South twenty degrees West two hundred and ten perches, thence by a straight line to the beginning, containing one hundred acres. Witnesses: Justices of the Peace Benjamin Keene and Thomas Jones.

1786/05/03

Grantor	Grantee	Parcel	Acreage	Lib:No:Fol	Type
James Mace	Thomas Mace	Head Range	[not stated]	NH:5-8:411	Deed of Lease

May 3, 1786: James Mace, planter of Dorchester County in the State of Maryland, leases for £5 yearly to Thomas Mace, also planter of Dorchester County, the same parcel called Head Range previously leased, and on which Edward Mills now lives, lying on Fishing Creek; the previous contract is hereby cancelled as James Mace is indebted to Thomas Mace to the extent of £60 pounds; and the present lease now enables James to reduce his debt at the same rate as the [phantom] £5 yearly rate, extended yearly as long as it takes to clear said debt. Witnesses: Justices of the Peace Thomas Jones and James Shaw.

1786/06/13

Grantor	Grantee	Parcel	Acreage	Lib:No:Fol	Type
John Mace		Head Range		NH:5-8:428	Commission

June 13, 1786: John Mace of Dorchester County in the State of Maryland petitions the Justices of Dorchester County to set up a commission to reestablish the boundaries of his tract called head Range, lying in Dorchester County. The commissioners are John Bromwell, Moses LeCompte, Richard Patison, Stenens Woolford, all gentlemen of Dorchester County. John Dickinson, gentleman, is Presiding Judge of Dorchester County Court; N. Hammond is Dorchester County clerk. Moses LeCompte and Richard Patison were subsequently certified and sworn by Justice of the Peace Thomas Jones on Arpil 15, 1786. Depositions were taken: (1) Edmond Mace, age about fifty six, stated that about twenty years ago he saw Jonathan Partridge (Patridge) reverse the home course of Head Range down to the water side, and there he set his compass; and when he, the deponent, sighted through the compass along the home course, reversed, across the creek and it struck a cedar bush on the opposite shore, which place is the same or near the place he now shows the commissioners; and the deponent further saith that Jonathan Partridge was at the time of his running the reverse course of Head Range, a sworn surveyor; and the deponent further saith that about thirty three years ago he, the deponent, was requested by his uncle, John Mace, to lay off part of the aforesaid Head Range that he, the aforesaid John Mace, sold to James Busick that he began at the first bounder of Head Range and run in the reverse home course to the main road and then began to lay off the aforesaid part that was sold to Busick in the following manner: Ninety four perches on the said reversed home course from the main road, then down to the Indian Cove, then up the said cove to the main road, then with the road to the beginning, which part has been since recovered of James Busick by the heirs of the aforesaid John Mace; and further the deponent saith not on June 10, 1786. Witnesses; Moses LeCompte and Richard Pattison, Junior. (2) Thomas Mace, age about fifty two, states that about thirty five or six years ago he, the deponent, was sitting on the post that now standing where the deponent now stands; and the deponent saith that it was settled by four freeholders by the consent of all concerned parties, being James Busick, Absalom Thompson, Thomas Mace, & John Mace; and further the deponent saith that the same post now standing where the deponent stands his uncle John Mace and Absalom Thompson showed him the same place and told him it was the first bounder of Head Range; and since that about five or six years ago he, the deponent, heard James Busick acknowledge the same post to be the first bounder of Head Range; and the deponent further saith that when the aforesaid post was put down, he saw the roots of the tree dug up; and this deponent further saith that about twenty years ago he, the deponent, saw Jonathan Partridge run the home course, reversed down to the water and then set up his compass and sighted across the creek the same course, and it struck a bush, which place he now shows to the commissioners; and the deponent further saith that about the same time Absalom Thompson showed the deponent the place where the line ran between him, the said Thompson, and the deponent's father Thomas Mace, which place is the same he now shows to the commissioners, but he does not recollect that he heard Thompson say what land that was a line of; and the deponent further saith that the =aforesaid Jonathan Partridge was at the time of his running the reverse course of the Head Range, a sworn surveyor; and the deponent further saith that about forty years ago he saw William Grantham sight the home course of Head Range reversed from the first bounder and it struck about four feet to the North of a pine on the East side of the creek, which place he now shows to the commissioners; and further, the deponent saith not on June 10, 1786. Witnesses: Moses LeCompte and Richard Pattison, Junior. The commissioners, after due deliberations, then stuck down a barrel stave so as to stand at the distance of ten feet from a cedar bush standing on the East side of Church Creek and about forty feet to the Southward of a large pine standing near the water's edge and a little to the Eastward of the house where Col. Thomas Woolford now lives; and to commemorate the place where the bush stood as mentioned in Thomas Mace's deposition to be in the home line of Head Range, the commissioners have caused a barrel stave to be stuck down, which stave stands five feet to the Northward of the place shown by Edmund (Edmond) Mace as aforesaid; so stated on June 10, 1786.

[Signed] Moses LeCompte
Richard Pattison, Junior.

1786/07/17

Grantor	Grantee	Parcel	Acreage	Lib:No:Fol	Type
James Mace	Nicholas Mace	Cornwell, Head Range & Outlett	66.5	NH:9:3	Deed

July 17, 1786: Nicholas Mace, planter of Dorchester County in the Province of Maryland, buys for £10 from James Mace, also planter of Dorchester County, 66-1/2 acres from parts of three land parcels: Part of Cornwell, part of Head Range, and part of Outlett, all lying together in Dorchester County within the following metes and bounds: Beginning at a marked white oak standing on the South side of a gut called Indian Gut, it being a division formerly between Thomas Mace and John Mace, deceased, then running South South East one hundred and eight perches to the East North East line of Cornwell, then with the said line East North East twenty four perches, then South South West sixty two perches, then North seventy five degrees East fifty seven perches, then North North East forty perches, then North twenty two degrees West one hundred and thirty one perches, then North seventy degrees East twenty perches with the main road to the creek, then binding with the saud creek North thirty degrees West forty perches, then binding with the creek and Indian Gut to the first beginning, containing sixty six and a half acres. Witnesses: Justices of the Peace Thomas Jones and Benjamin Keene.

1786/07/24

Grantor	Grantee	Parcel	Acreage	Lib:No:Fol	Type
James Mace	Thomas Colsten	Slave, Step	[none]	NH:9:13	Bill of Sale

July 24, 1786: James Mace, planter of Dorchester County in the Province of Maryland, sells for £10 to Thomas Colsten, carpenter, also of Dorchester County, the slave named Step. Witnesses: Thomas Mace, William Medes, and Justice of the Peace Thomas Jones.

1786/08/28

Grantor	Grantee	Parcel	Acreage	Lib:No:Fol	Type
Thomas Mace	Thomas Colston	Head Range	[not stated]	NH:9:36	Deed

August 28, 1786: Thomas Mace, planter of Dorchester County in the Province of Maryland, assigns for £60 to Thomas Colston (Colsten), also planter of Dorchester County, land which Thomas Mace had leased from James Mace and on which Edward Mills resided as tenant farmer on Fishing Creek, paying rent of £5 per year, and which Thomas Mace is now conveying to Thomas Colston, that is, the right to lease the land and to collect the aforesaid rent. Witnesses: Justices of the Peace John Dickinson and Thomas Jones.

1787/01/15

Grantor	Grantee	Parcel	Acreage	Lib:No:Fol	Type
James Mace and wife Isabella	Thomas Lockerman	Cornwell and Head Range	[not stated]	NH:9:153	Deed

January 15, 1787: James Mace, planter of Dorchester County in the Province of Maryland, sells for £135 to Thomas Lockerman, gentleman, also of Dorchester County, all the parts of the tracts called Cornwell and Head Range as well as all his other lands and premises on which Thomas Mace, father to James Mace, lately dwelt and which lie near Fishing Creek in Dorchester County to the Northward, Eastward, Southward and Westward of the several lines, bounds and courses mention in the deed of sale dated September 15, 1784, for the use of his son, Nicholas Mace, the younger. Witnesses: Thomas Jones and R. Griffith.

1787/02/06

Grantor	Grantee	Parcel	Acreage	Lib:No:Fol	Type
Nicholas Mace and wife Alefair (Alesair)	Thomas Lockerman	Cornwell, Head Range and Outlett	66.5	NH:9:201	Deed

February 6, 1787: Nicholas Mace, planter of Dorchester County in the Province of Maryland sells for £133 to Thomas Lockerman, also of Dorchester County, 66-1/2 acres of the tracts called Cornwell, Head Range and Outlett, all lying together in Dorchester County within the following metes and bounds: Beginning at a marked white oak standing on the South side of a gut called Indian Gut, it being a division formerly between Thomas Mace and John Mace, deceased, then running South South East one hundred and eight perches to the East North East line of Cornwell, then with the said line East North East twenty four perches, then South South West sixty two perches, then North seventy five degrees East fifty seven perches, then North North East forty perches, then North twenty two degrees West one hundred and thirty one perches, then North seventy degrees East twenty perches with the main road to the creek, then binding with the creek and Indian Gut to the first beginning, containing sixty six and a half acres. Witnesses: Joseph Daffin and R. Stevens.

1787/04/16

Grantor	Grantee	Parcel	Acreage	Lib:No:Fol	Type
					Patent

April 16, 1787: Addition To White Haven, Thomas Thompson, 185 1/2 Acres.

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1787/09/06

Grantor	Grantee	Parcel	Acreage	Lib:No:Fol	Type
James Mace	Nicholas Mace	Slave, Phillis	[none]	NH:9:349	Bill of Sale

September 6, 1787: James Mace of Dorchester County in the Province of Maryland sells for £15 to Nicholas Mace, also of Dorchester County, the slave Philes (Phillis). Witness: Justice of the Peace John Smoot.

1787/09/07

Grantor	Grantee	Parcel	Acreage	Lib:No:Fol	Type
James Mace	William Meddice (Medis)	Slave, Jin	[none]	NH:9:349	Bill of Sale

September 7, 1787: James Mace of Dorchester County in the Province of Maryland sells for £28 to William Meddice (Medes) his slave girl Jin. Witnesses: Justices of the Peace Thomas Jones and Edward Wright.

1790/03/11

Grantor	Grantee	Parcel	Acreage	Lib:No:Fol	Type
William Claridge	William Mace and wife Mary	Goods and chattels	[none]	HD:2:549	Bill of Sale

March 11, 1790: William Mace and his wife Mary of Dorchester County in the Province of Maryland buy £18 6/- for from William Claridge, planter of Dorchester County, two gray mares, one black colt, one cow & calf, two heifers, four head of sheep, one cupboard, two beds & furniture, one loom, six pewter plates, three pewter dishes, and two sows with pig. Witnesses: Justice of the Peace Thomas Jones; and Edmund Mace, and Thomas Mace.

1791/12/13

Grantor	Grantee	Parcel	Acreage	Lib:No:Fol	Type
Edmond Mace	Thomas Colston	Maces Back Range	9	HD:3:369	Deed

December 13, 1791: Edmond Mace, son of Edmond Mace of Dorchester County in the Province of Maryland, sells for £20 to Thomas Colsten (Colston), carpenter, also of Dorchester County, all that 9 acre parcel called Mace's Back Range lying in Dorchester County within the following metes and bounds: Beginning for the out bounds at the end of the thirty fourth courses of a tract of land called Mace's Back Range on which stands a bounder sassafras post, and from thence running North forty [degrees] West eighty perches, then North North West sixteen perches, then East by South forty four perches, then by a [straight] line to the first beginning, containing nine acres. Witnesses: Justices of the Peace Solomon Birckhead and Thomas Jones.

1791/12/13

Grantor	Grantee	Parcel	Acreage	Lib:No:Fol	Type
Thomas Colston	William Mace	Addition to Green Bank	9.75	HD:3:371	Deed

December 13, 1791: Thomas Colston (Colsten), carpernter of Dorchester County in the Province of Maryland sells for £20 to William Mace, planter, also of Dorchester County, 9-3/4 acres of the tract called Addition to Green Bank lying in Dorchester County within the following metes and bounds: Beginning for the out bounds at the end of the thirty fourth courses of the tract called Mace's Back Range where stands a bounded sassafras post, and from thence running South twenty degrees East thirty perches, then South East twenty perches, then South five degrees East forty perches, then North eighty three degrees West twelve perches, then north five degrees West sixteen perches, then North West twenty perches, then North twenty degrees West thirty perches, then North forty degrees West thirteen perches, then by a [straight] line to the first beginning, containing nine and three quarter acres. Witnesses: Justices of the Peace Thomas Jones and Solomon Birckhead.

1791/12/13

Grantor	Grantee	Parcel	Acreage	Lib:No:Fol	Type
William Mace	Edmond Mace	Cornwell	9.75	HD:3:374	Deed

December 13, 1791: William Mace, planter of Dorchester County in the Province of Maryland sells for £20 to Edmond Mace, also planter of Dorchester County, all that 9-3/4 acre parcel called Cornwell lying in Dorchester County within the following metes and bounds: Beginning for the out bounds at the end of a line drawn South fifty perches from a bounder red oak standing at the end of a division between old Edmond Mace and Thomas Mace his brother, and from thence running East eighty three perches, then South eighteen degrees East twenty perches, then West eighty nine perches, then by a [straight] line to the first beginning, containing nine and three quarter acres. Witnesses: Justices of the Peace Thomas Jones and Solomon Birckhead.

1793/11/09

Grantor	Grantee	Parcel	Acreage	Lib:No:Fol	Type
Thomas Colsten (Colston)	John Mace	Tootells Venture (Lot No.6)	5.75	HD:6:178	Deed

November 9, 1793: Thomas Colsten (Colston) of Dorchester County in the State of Maryland, trustee to the insolvent Thomas Kallendar, sells for £21 12/- 8p to John Mace, planter, also of Dorchester County, the 5-3/4 acre tract called Tootell's Venture (Lot No.6) contained in the following metes and bounds: Beginning at the end of the fifteenth course, and from thence running South South West one hundred and ninety seven perches, then West and by North four and a half perches, then North North East one hundred and eighty six perches, then by a [straight] line to the first beginning, containing five and three quarter acres. Witnesses: Justices of the Peace Thomas Jones and John Stevens.

1795/12/21

Grantor	Grantee	Parcel	Acreage	Lib:No:Fol	Type
Henry Ennalls and wife Sarah	Nicholas Mace	[not named]	3.75	HD:9:43	Deed

December 21, 1795: Henry Ennalls of Dorchester County in the State of Maryland sells for £28 2/- 6p to Nicholas Mace, also of Dorchester County, a 3-3/4 acre tract of land laid out by William Barrows: Beginning at a bounded post standing where the road forks that leads from Cambridge to New Market and from Cambridge to Transquacken, and running thence South forty four and a half degrees East ten perches, then South forty six degrees East twenty eight perches, then South thirty six degrees East ten perches, then South forty six degrees East two perches, then North ten perches, then North twenty degrees East fifteen perches, then North forty two degrees East sixteen perches, then South sixty nine degrees West eleven perches, then South eighty three degrees West nine perches, then North eighty six degrees West nineteen perches, then by a straight line to the first beginning, containing three and three quarter acres. Witnesses: Justices of the Peace Henry Lakes and Sevin Woolford.

1796/05/02

Grantor	Grantee	Parcel	Acreage	Lib:No:Fol	Type
William Mace	John Mace	Dess, Maces Back Range, and Cornwell	[not stated]	HD:9:314	Deed

May 2, 1796: William Mace, planter of Dorchester County in the State of Maryland, sells for £100 in gold or silver to John Mace, also planter of Dorchester County, as one tract, formed of the tracts Dess, Mace's Back Range, and Cornwell, that lies in Dorchester County upon the Hodson's Branch that issues out of the Blackwater River, and to the Southward of a division line between William Mace and his brother Edmund (Edmond) Mace given to him by his father in his Will, all contiguous and adjoining each other. The sale is contingent upon the actual payment of the £100 in gold or silver by April 1, 1800. Witnesses: Justices of the Peace John Williams and Thomas Jones.

1797/08/07

Grantor	Grantee	Parcel	Acreage	Lib:No:Fol	Type
Lowden Mace and wife Elizabeth	Wingate Mace	[not stated]	[not stated]	HD:12:261	Deed

August 7, 1797: Lowden (Louden) Mace of Dorchester County in the State of Maryland sells for £400 to Wingate (Wingett) Mace, also of Dorchester County, all those lands deeded to him by his father Nicholas Mace, in a deed dated September 15, 1784, said land lying in Dorchester County to the Northward, Southward, Eastward, and Westward of the several lines and courses, whereon the said Nicholas Mace formerly lived. Witnesses: Justices of the Peace Thomas Jones and John Williams.

1798/03/08

Grantor	Grantee	Parcel	Acreage	Lib:No:Fol	Type
Benjamin Busick	William Meddis (Medes) & William Mace	Goods and chattels	[none]	HD:12:560	Bill of Sale

March 8, 1798: Benjamin Busick of Dorchester County in the State of Maryland sells for £100 to William Meddis (Medes) and William Mace, both also of Dorchester County, one yoke of oxen, one cart, two cows, two yearlings, one mare, twelve hogs, two beds and furniture, two chests, eight chairs, one loom, one linen wheel, three iron pots, one tea kettle, one frying pan, two tables, one crosscut saw, five axes, two chains, one milk house with crockery ware & pewter, all and singular which said premises are now remaining standing and being in a certain messuage or tenement situate in Dorchester County and now in the possession of Benjamin Busick. Witnesses: Thomas Mace, Junior, Priscilla Gradd and Richard Pattison.

1798/03/31

Grantor	Grantee	Parcel	Acreage	Lib:No:Fol	Type
James Mace		Head Range	[not stated]	HD:14:1	Commission

March 31, 1798: James Mace of Dorchester County in the State of Maryland petitions to have the boundaries of his land called Head Range reestablished by a commission, subsequently chosen from among Thomas Jones, Ezekiel Vickars, William Vickars, and Roger Woolford. Ultimately, Ezekiel Vickars and William Vickars were suitably sworn; and then Col. Thomas Jones and Roger Woolfdord were also sworn. Several depositions were then taken: (1) Edmond Mace, age about fifty five, stated that about twenty years ago he was with Jonathan Patridge at the beginning bounds of Head Range, and there Jonathan reversed the home course of Head Range and came down to the water side on the said course and then set his compass as he expected on the same course and asked Edmond, the deponent, to look through it, and it pointed to a cedar near where the deponent now stands; and further the deponent states that formerly there used to be disputes about the division between Abraham Thompson and Thomas Mace, and that the division fence was often moved on the aforesaid Thomas Mace, but that he, the deponent, did not know that ever these movings of the division fence was on the line properly run; and further the deponent saith not on November 30, 1784. (2) Thomas Mace, age about fifty one, stated that about thirty five or six years ago where he, the deponent, now stands, it was settled by four freeholders by the consent of all concerned parties, that is, James Busick, Absalom Thompson, Thomas Mace and John Pace; and that further the deponent states that his uncle, John Mace, and Absalom Thompson showed him the same place and told him it was the boundary of Head Range, and since about fifty five or six years ago he, the deponent heard James Busick acknowledge the same post to be the first boundary of Head Range; and the deponent further saith that when the aforesaid post was put down, he saw the roots of the true disch [?] up; and further the deponent saith not. (3) Solomon Busick, age about fifty three, stated that about forty years ago he saw Major Henry Ennalles run from John Mace's boundary which he understood since was the first boundary of Head Range and run from the said boundary as he understood with Mr. Mace's line to the place where the deponent now showeth, being about eight feet from the place shown to the Northward of two persimmon trees which was generally allowed to stand on Mr. Mace's land; and further the deponent saith that some time before Major Ennalles run the before mentioned land he saw Mr. Grantham run at the insistence and request of his father and Mr. Mace the division line between them and the course was of there running of the line was that Mr. Mace contended the division fence stood on him but when they run the line they found the division fence stood on his father's land; and further the deponent saith that the line Mr. Grantham run very near agreed with Mr. Ennalles's running; and further the deponent saith that Mr. Mace before mentioned was John Mace, the owner of that part of Head Range; and further the deponent saith that he heard Joshua Busick say he saw Edmond Mace sight across the creek the division lines between his father in law and brother that Joshua Busick said he split the difference; and further the deponent saith that he understood that the division fence now standing is the half way where formerly the division line stood and where the line before mentioned runs, and that when he understood the splitting the difference; and further the deponent saith that his brother Joshua Busick told him the line that Mr. Patrisdge run went under the boughs of the holly and the line as he meant was the line of Mr. Thomson's resurvey; and further the deponent saith not on December 11, 1784. (4) Philemon Brannok, age twenty eight, stated that he was born and always resided in this neighborhood and that he remembers when a fence run near a persimmon tree mentioned in the deposition of Edmond Mace, but whether the said fence was a division fence between Mace & Thompson, this deponent cannot undertake to say, nor does he remember to have heard it called & when the fence run by the tree before mentioned he believes Mace tended the lands on the East side of the said fence and he himself has seen the said lands on the east side of the fence tended in corn by old Nicholas Mace, and old Mr. Thompson himself and afterward his tenant Joshua Busick used to tend on the West side of said fence. Old Mr. Thompson got Edmond Mace to run his lands round and it came down as the fence now stands, and it was run with a wooden chain & staked out from the woods to the creek and after this running he believes the fence was moved after and placed upon the line as staked out, and this was done by the aforesaid Nicholas mace and Joshua Busick; he does not know that this was a division fence, but it was said old Mr. Thompson's line came down to the place that was stalked out. This deponent was present when the line was run. After the fence was moved Mace tended the lands on the East side of the fence and Busick those on the West side of said fence. He cannot tell how long ago this was, but he might be then twenty years old or less, and after they had run the said Thompson's land as he hath before mentioned they went round the head of the creek and sighted from a post down to the opposite side of the creek. This deponent did not go with them but remained on the North side of the creek and the line so sighted run equal with the line on this the North side of the creek. When Edmond Mace run the lands before mentioned he did it at the request of Thompson. He believes the line run exactly as the fence now stands. He saw the fence moved, and it was sit as the stakes now stuck, at least that part which he saw moved, which was fifteen panels next to the woods, but he does not know that the whole of the fence was sit as the stakes were stuck, the line, as they then run it, runs over the road on the swamp side. And this deponent further saith not on April 30, 1785. (5) Jemima Busick, age about forty years, stated that she formerly lived on Absalom Thompson's lands ten years and has been removed from said lands between seven and eight years. She thinks that some time between a year or eighteen months after her late husband Joshua Busick came to live on the lands of the late Mr. Thompson her husband [illegible] that Mace had some part of White Haven which he had leased from Thompson in his Mace's possession insisted that Thompson should have his lands run, and Thompson & Mace applied to Edmond Mace who was brother to NicholasMace and son in law to Thompson to get him to run his lands. Her husband often said to her that Edmond Mace did not do Thompson justice for that he did not give him his right, for he had divided the spoil between them he had given about half to one and half to the other; on hearing him say so often, she asked him if Thompson had his right how far he would run in upon Mace, he answered he would take all that point and run very near Nicholas Mace's peach orchards and near or under two persimmon trees which the deponent now shows as those she understood to be meant by her husband and would come very near or would strike Nicholas Mace's kitchen and that the line would then run between Nicholas Mace's gate and where the fence now stands. He also said he wished the two old men Maces and Thompson would have it settled in their time, for that after they were gone it would occasion a lawsuit or a war. She has often understood that the division fence formerly stood near the persimmon tree mentioned in Edmond Mace's deposition, and she thinks the fence as it now stands appears to be moved further in upon Thompson's lands than it stood when she lived here, and it appears to her to be nearer the persimmon tree, but she does expect it may conceit on her. That the conversations she mentions to have had with her husband was at their own house, and he described to her how Thompson's line ought to run, but he never showed her the place or any of the places to which it should run, nor were they in sight of them at any time when the conversations happened. She thinks she so well acquainted with the lands, having lived on the creek for several years and on Thompson's lands a year or a year and a half that she could not have mistaken her husband in the place he described to her, and she knew of no other persimmon trees near the peach orchard than those she has shown. Her husband was bred and born and had always lived in this neighborhood on the place where James Busick now lives. Her husband had never in any of these conversations told her how he knew that Thompson's lands run as he described. [And she] does not know that her husband ever saw Thompson's land run, except when run by Edmond Mace. After the fence was moved on the running of the lands by Edmond Mace [she] thinks her husband assisted in putting up the division fence. She had heard her husband say that he kept up on half that division fence. Her husband after that, as far as she knows, never tended or used any of the lands on Mace's side of the fence while she lived on Thompson's lands. Her husband came in one day after Edmond Mace had made the division between Nicholas Mace and Thompson and said that Nicholas Mace had cut down or had ordered someone to cut down a holly tree in which he had done very wrong, for it was as good as a boundary to Thompson's lands. It appears to her the holly tree stood about as far to the eastward of the present division fence as the persimmon tree mentioned by Edmond Mace stands to the Westward of the said fence. [She] does not remember of any other holly tree; it was a large spreading topped tree. [She] understood by her husband that Thompson's lines [were] near that holly tree and that she understood him was what he meant when he said it was as good as a boundary. This deponent being requested to go out and endeavor to show the place having taken a view of the grounds saith that when she formerly knew the place it was sometimes tended in corn and sometimes uncultivated, and being now sown in wheat she cannot show the place where the said tree stood. And this deponent further saith not on April 3, 1785. (6) Edmond Mace, age about fifty five, stated that twenty years ago he was present when Jonathan Patridge sighted the home course of Head Range from the post to the water; and he, the deponent, has also sighted it himself. [He] knows where the division fence between Absalom Thompson and Nicholas Mace formerly stood; and further he saith that the said fence formerly stood forty three strides further to the Westward than it does now. The deponent has this day measured the distance by striding it out. [He] does not know of [how] the said fence came to set where it was or that it was on the line of Head Range. At the same time when Absalom Thompson was about to make the resurvey called Addition to White Haven, this deponent understood that his father Thomas Mace, who held the part of Head Range now in dispute, and Edmond Brannock both had older warrants than Mr. Thompson and that his father, whose warrant was the eldest of them, told Edmond Brannock that unless he would let Thompson lay his warrant on some of the vacancy, he would lay his own warrant on it and Absalom Thompson in the presence of this deponent promised Nicholas Mace, the son of the aforesaid Thomas Mace, that he would let him have all the lands that lie between where the old division fence stood and where it now stands, but he understood from Nicholas Mace afterwards that Thompson would not let him have the lands which he had promised him. Further, this deponent saith that when a boy he remembers that the division fence stood sixteen strides still further Northward and Westward; this was forty years or more ago. After Thompson left White Haven, the division fence was moved and Jemima Busick lived on White Haven and has been informed by Joshua Busick that he helped to keep up the division fence as it now stands. [He] does not recollect to have ever heard Mr. Thompson say anything about this division fence as it now stands. He believes the division fence as it was moved and stood the second way was kept up, and Absalom Thompson and Thomas Mace who used the lands on one side of the fence and Mr. Thompson used them on the other. In cross examination this deponent saith that the time when the agreement was made between Thompson and Nicholas Mace as before mentioned, this deponent believes the place where the fence now stands was a part of the vacancy which Thompson was to let Nicholas Mace have. When Patridge made Thompson's survey, the cleared land was not staked out, nor was it staked out at all except where the line was near a tract called Timber Neck. This deponent saith that when he spoke to his father and brothers tending the lands up to the division fence as aforesaid, he did not understand they tended it as being their lands or within their lines, and he believes that the lands were vacant up to the lines [illegible] White Haven. This deponent further saith that he believes the lands from the South West end of the division fence as it now stands up to the division fence as it formerly stood was vacant land, but [he] does not know whether it did or did not go nearer to the water than the persimmon tree, but [he] believes it might go a small matter nearer the creek. [He] believes the vacancy did not go nearer the creek than the old lines of the old tract called White Haven. [He] does not remember he ever saw White Have run until within these few years. He had twenty years ago frequently sighted the reverse line of Head Range at the request of his father and none of the sightings ever agreed with the present division fence; [he] believes they run to the Southward of the fence, buy he does not know what occasions him to do so. This deponent further saith that he was some time last Summer summoned as a witness to his brother Nicholas, to appear upon a land commission to declare whether he had ever seen the reversed home line of Head range run or sighted. [He] thinks the lines he has heard his brother say the lands before mentioned were vacant. Taken & sworn on April 8, 1785. (7) Edmond Brannock, age about forty four, saith that better than twenty years ago he accompanied Edmond Mace and Absalom Thompson; Edmond Mace had been running some vacant land adjoining to White Haven, and after they had done, Absalom Thompson asked Edmond Mace to plat down the division line between him, Absalom Thompson, and Nicholas Mace, but whether he did or not, this deponent does not know. At that time the division fence stood in further upon Absalom Thompson's land than it does now, but how much, he does not know. Nor does he know [how] the division fence came to be moved or why it was moved, nor by whom. [He] thinks he has heard that the fence was a division fence between Nicholas Mace and Absalom Thompson and has heard it so talked in the neighborhood and also from Nicholas Mace, but not from Absalom Thompson; and as he recollects at the time when the fence [being] spoken of stood in upon Thompson's lands, he lived in White Haven, but at the time when it was moved further in to the Eastward & Southward, he, Thompson, had removed from White Have to Blackwater. [He] does not know that the fence stood where he mentions because the line of Head Range run there or not. When the division fence was moved as aforesaid, it was a good deal talked of in the neighborhood and to be hard upon Nicholas Mace, though this deponent does not know why it was moved, only by whom. The fence of which this deponent speaks was not moved until after the resurvey was made by Thompson, called Addition to White Haven. [He] has been intimately acquainted with these lands twenty or thirty years and has always understood that the fence was a division line between Nicholas Mace and Absalom Thompson; on being asked from whom he had heard this was a division fence as aforesaid, he saith he does not recollect any person from whom he heard it except from Nicholas Mace and his mother, but [he] verily believes he has heard it from others of the neighbors, but to name any particular person is not in his power. Taken and sworn on April 8, 1785. (8) Thomas Fitchew, aged about sixty seven, saith that about forty four years ago he lived with Mr. John Mace, and this deponent remembers that during the time he lived with the aforesaid Mr. Mace that he was shown the division line between Mr. Jonhn Mace and James Busick, and that the said line was told to him to be the division line extended across the Church Creek to a cedar that stood on the North side of the aforesaid creek, the place now shown, and further the deponent saith that to the best of his knowledge he had this information from Mr. James Mace who was the owner of the land adjoining to the aforesaid division line and on which he than lived; and further this deponent saith not on July 25, 1785. (9) Thomas Mace, age about fifty two, saith that about forty years ago he, the deponent, saw Wiliam Grantham sight the home course of Head Range and that the said line went near the place now shown; and further the deponent saith that about twenty odd years ago that Absolom Thompson showed him, the deponent, near where the deponent now shows, but he, the deponent, does not know what line it was, and further the deponent saith that about twenty years ago he saw Mr. Patridge run the home course of Head Range down to the water and then set his compass and sighted across the creek and told the deponent it struck a bush, which bush as well as he can recollect stood near the place he now shows, but he saith he is not positive. And further the deponent saith that a few months ago a former commission met on the above mentioned land; he, this deponent, declared on his oath that at that time he did not know that ever he saw the said land run at that time, but the deponent since that remembers that he saw Jonathan Patridge run it. On the question being asked, whether he now remembers whether his father and Jonathan in particular said it was the home course of Head Range he was sighting, answered that he does remember they said it was the home course, and further the deponent saith at the time that Mr. Patridge sighted the course across the creek that there was many bushes along the creek side beside the one mentioned. And further the deponent believes that the said bush might be standing about fifteen years ago there; and further the deponent saith not on August 1, 1785. (10) Edmond Mace, age about fifty five, saith that about twenty years ago he, this deponent, sighted the line of Head Range reversed, which struck a large pine at the place now shown; and further this deponent saith that about twenty years ago when his uncle john Mace sold part of Head Range to James Busick he, the deponent, laid off the part so sold to the said Busick and that he began to lay off the said part in the home line of Head Range but does not remember that he showed the place of beginning to Mr. Barrow, the surveyor, when he laid down the lands between Elizabeth Meddiss (Medes) and others and James Busick; and further this deponent believes the place where he began to lay off the new part of Head Range for the said Busick was in the true home line of the said Head Range. This deponent further saith that when Mr. Barrow ran the said line it did not agree with the line as he, this deponent, ran it, but [instead] ran to the right hand that he believes that when he came near to the water that he varied from the line as he ran it above one perch or perhaps better. And further, this deponent saith not on August 1, 1785. The commission had met on November 30, 1784, and on several later occasions to take the above depositions and subsequently set the metes and bounds of Head Range as follows: We certify that the division fence bears from the fourth Eastmost corner of the new stone house North sixty three and a half degrees East nine perches, and from the aforesaid corner of the aforesaid stone house to where the holly tree stood is thus North seventy three and three quarter degrees East thirty eight perches, and from the aforesaid corner of the said stone house to the two persimmon trees is thus South sixty degrees east fifteen perches; the course and distance from the Eastmost corner of the aforesaid stone house to a stake put down at the North side of the peach orchard shown by Jemima Busick is thus South thirty four degrees East twelve perches. The course and distance from said corner of said stone house to the dwelling house is South forty nine degrees West thirteen and a half perches, and from thence to take the course and distance to the two persimmon trees standing over the creek the objects bears South sixty two degrees West then run of South three degrees West seventeen perches, then the trees bears South seventy five degrees West [illegible]. [signed] Thomas Jones, Ezekiel Vickars and Roger Woolford. Witnesses: Thomas Eccleston and William Ennalls; N. Hammond is Dorchester County clerk.

1798/10/22

Grantor	Grantee	Parcel	Acreage	Lib:No:Fol	Type
Job Greerwood	Thomas Mace	Goods and chattels	[none]	HD:14:299	Bill of Sale

October 22, 1798: Thomas Mace, Junior, of Dorchester County in the State of Maryland buys for £30 from Job Greerwood, also of Dorchester County, all the goods, household stuff, implements and furniture herein mentioned: Two beds and furniture, two iron pots, one dutch oven, six pewter plates, one pewter dish, eleven pewter spoons, two chests, one heifer, one hog, half a dozen wicker chairs, and one linen wheel. Witnesses: Samuel Ellworth, John Morain and Samuel W. Pitt.

1799/05/06

Grantor	Grantee	Parcel	Acreage	Lib:No:Fol	Type
Wingate Mace	Samuel Mace	[not stated]	[not stated]	HD:14:568	Deed

May 6, 1799: Wingate (Wingett) Mace of Dorchester County in the State of Maryland sells for 10/- to his son, Samuel Mace, also of Dorchester County, all the tracts which were deeded to him by Loudon (Lowden) Mace of Dorchester County on April 22, 1797. Witnesses: Justices of the Peace John Williams and Thomas Jones.

1804/03/29

Grantor	Grantee	Parcel	Acreage	Lib:No:Fol	Type
Abraham Neild and wife Nancy	Thomas Mace, Junior	White Haven	5.5	HD:21:87	Deed

March 29, 1804: Thomas Mace, Junior, of Dorchester County in the State of Maryland buys for £60 from Abraham Neild, also of Dorchester County, 5-1/2 acres of White Haven, which was purchased by the aforesaid Abraham Neild from John Webookes, and which lies in Dorchester County near the head of Church Creek and is contained within the following metes and bounds: Beginning at a marked pine post being a bounder of one Porter or part of said land which post stands North thirty seven degrees East eleven and a half perches from the second bounder of the Methodist Meeting House lot and close on the North West side of the main road that leads from Church Creek to Cambridge, then running binding with said road North thirty and a quarter degrees East eighteen perches, then still with said road North twenty three degrees East seventeen and a quarter perches, then North seven degrees East twenty two and a quarter perches, then North eighty degrees West nine perches, then South seven degrees West nine perches, then South thirty six degrees West forty three and a half perches to a pine post, one of the aforesaid Porter's bounders, then with said Porter's land to the first beginning, containing five and a half acres. Witnesses: Justices of the Peace Richard Pattison and John Williams.

1805/04/15

Grantor	Grantee	Parcel	Acreage	Lib:No:Fol	Type
Edmond Mace and wife Betsey	Thomas Jones	Walk, Tootells Venture, & Maces Back Range		HD:21:633	Deed

April 15, 1805: Edmund (Edmond) Mace of Dorchester County in the State of Maryland sells for £45 to Thomas Jones, Junior, also of Dorchster County, several tracts of land lying in Dorchester County within the following metes and bounds: All that tract called the Walk lying on the West side of Hodsons Branch, beginning at the end of the eighth course of a tract called Mace's Purchase and running its courses according to the original patent, and also all that tract called Tootell's Venture that lies to the South of a line drawn East by South from the end of the seventh course of the aforesaid Mace's Purchase to the middle of Hodsons Branch, then down the middle of said branch until it intersects a line of said Tootell's Venture, and also all that part of Mace's Regulation or Mace's Back Range that lies to the South of a line drawn North seventy four degrees West from the end of the sixth course of the said mace's Purchase to a sassafras post standing in the line of the land called Outlett. The aforesaid expressions are meant to include all the land lying to the South of said land lines, containing thirty acres. Witnesses: Justices of the Peace Thomas Jones and John Williams.

1805/04/16

Grantor	Grantee	Parcel	Acreage	Lib:No:Fol	Type
Thomas Colston	Edmond Mace	Priviledge	[not stated]	HD:21:635	Deed

April 16, 1805: Edmond Mace of Dorchester County in the State of Maryland buys for $16.00 from Thomas Colsten (Colston), also of Dorchester County, all that portion of the tract called Priviledge which Thomas Colston has not sold to John Williams as reference to his deed will more fully and at large appear. Witnesses: Justices of the Peace Thomas Jones and John Williams.

1807/03/27

Grantor	Grantee	Parcel	Acreage	Lib:No:Fol	Type
Joseph Martin & Thomas Colston	Nicholas Mace	Ennalls's Addition to Forrest of Friendship	11	HD:24:158	Deed

March 27, 1807: Nicholas Mace of Dorchester County in the State of Maryland buys for £46 from Joseph Martin of Talbot County and Thomas Colsten (Colston) of Dorchester County 11 acres of the lands which Andrew Skinner Ennalls, late of the City of Baltimore, deceased, held in his possession and thereafter willed to be sold by his executors Leah Hicks Ennalls, Joseph Martin & Thomas Colston or the survivors of them. Leah Hicks Ennalls has since died, and so Joseph Martin & Thomas Colston are herewith selling to Nicholas Mace all of the tract called Ennalls's Addition to Forrest of Friendship that lie within the following metes and bounds: Beginning for the out bounds at the end of the South seventy six degrees West line of John Shenton's Lott and at a marked stone, and from the said stone running North seventy six degrees East one hundred and fifty eight perches, then North sixteen and a quarter degrees West eleven perches, then South seventy six and a half degrees West one hundred and fifty eight perches to the road, then with said road to the first place of beginning, containing eleven acres. Witnesses: Justices of the Peace Theodore Marshall and David Higgins.

1807/08/31

Grantor	Grantee	Parcel	Acreage	Lib:No:Fol	Type
Thomas Colston	Mary Smith, Margaret Smith Lydia Mace, Sarah Earle, Robert Smith & Harriett Smith	[not stated]	[not stated]	HD:24:346	Deed

August 31, 1807: Mary Smith, Margaret Smith Lydia Mace, Sarah Earle, Robert Smith & Harriett Smith, all of Dorchester County in the State of Maryland, buy for from Thomas Colsten (Colston), also of Dorchester County, lands which the said Thomas Colston had sold to Elijah Smith in his lifetime the lands herein mentioned and had received from Elijah Smith the conveyance price of £150 on February 27, 1804, and which Tomas Colston later conveyed to his heirs, apparently illegally. The present indenture corrects the situation; the lands involved are contained within the following metes and bounds: Beginning at a marked cedar post that stands at the end of the East line of Keen's Outlett, and from thence running South eighty three degrees East one hundred and sixty six perches, thence South eight degrees East one hundred and twenty four perches, thence North eighty three degrees West until a line that bears South twenty degrees West from the first beginning, containing one hundred and fifty acres. Witnesses: Justices of the Peace John Williams and John Stevins.

1808/09/19

Grantor	Grantee	Parcel	Acreage	Lib:No:Fol	Type
Robert North Carman and wife Sarah	Nicholas Mace	Ennalls Ferry, Tates Bank	72.5	HD:25:264	Deed

September 19, 1808: Nicholas Mace of Dorchester County in the State of Maryland buys for $722.00 from Robert North Carman of Baltimore County, and his wife Sarah, formerly Sarah Ennalls, the executrix of the Last Will and Testament, dated July 12,1791, of Henry Ennalls, late of Dorchester County, the lands which Henry Ennalls bequeathed to his wife Sarah Ennalls, including his dwelling Ennalls Ferry, granary house, and his plantation Tates Bank, and on the advice of his brother in law Richard Bassett and George Ward now being conveyed to Nicholas Mace is the 72-1/2 acre tract called Indian Lott, otherwise called Wear Neeri, the metes and bounds of which are: Beginning for the out bounds at a marked stone marked with the letters JC standing in a branch that leads into the shallow creek and at the edge and South side of Choptank road that leads to Cambridge, and from the said stone running as follows: South Seventy eight perches, then North eighty five degrees East one hundred and sixty six perches, then North fifty degrees east fifty nine perches to a bounded stone, then North seventy two degrees West ten perches, then North fifty six and a half degrees West twenty six perches, then North eighty five degrees West twenty four perches, then South sixty six degrees West thirty perches, then North eighty eight degrees West twenty four perches, then North seventy five degrees West sixty four perches, and then to the place of beginning, containing seventy two and a half acres. Witnesses: Justices of the Peace for Baltimore County Samuel Owings and Thomas Johnson. Certified by William Gibson, Baltimore County clerk.

Grantor	Grantee	Parcel	Acreage	Lib:No:Fol	Type
	William Colsten			ER:5:72	Commission

March 26, 1818: William Colsten by his attorney Jonah Bayly put forth a petition to Dorchester County Court to create a Commission to divide the several tracts lying in Dorchester County that were amassed by Thomas Colsten in his lifetime and which have since descended to James Colsten, Thomas Colsten, Elizabeth Colsten, all of full age, and to Samuel Colsten, an infant under the age of twenty one, his only children and heirs at law. The Commission so formed includes: Richard M. Pattison, Thomas Jones, Samuel LeCompte, all gentlemen, who subsequently took an oath and eventually descided that the lands could be divided without loss to the heirs. Samuel LeCompte was chosen to make the division: Lot No.1 is to begin at the end of the last course of Sweet Prospect and run with the home line thereof North by East forty perches, then North fifty seven degrees West across said land to the Creek, all that part of said land that lies on the South West side of the before mentioned line; also the North room on the lower West side of the old mansion house; the small room on the second floor of said house; one third part of the kitchen; one third part of all the out houses and gardens, the orchards lying near the outer gate, with full ingress and egress to the full enjoyment; for Lot No.2 we lay off for the widow as follows: the one half of a lot, being part of Addition to White Haven, distinguished by the yellow shading marked No.2 on the plat, being the North half, to be laid off in right angles with a privilege of passing and repassing to and from the County Road, including the back dwelling house and stable; also that part of the Honorable Division with the yellow shading marked on the large plat No.2 containing one hundred and ninety three acres with a privilege of cutting timber on said land to support the above mentioned Lot houses and [for] firewood; for Lot No.3 we lay off for said widow all those several parts of land being Lot No.3 which lie on the West side of the County Road [as referred by the annexed plat - hard to read - GL,III, ed.]; for Lot No.4 we lay off for the widow, beginning at a post and stone represented on the plat by blue letter A standing by Breenwood's gate and running Northerly with the County Road seventy perches, then across said land North seventy four degrees West to the branch all those several parts of Lot No.4 which lie to the Southward of said line down to Lot No.5, represented with blue shading, also the Northerly room on the lower floor where John Mace lives, being on said Lot No.4 with one-third privilege of all the out houses and likewise a privilege to and from the County Road and full enjoyment of the aforesaid privileges both as to ingress and regress; and lastly for Lot No.5 we lay off for the widow, beginning at a marked pine mentioned in a deed from John Murray to John Brurwood represented on the plat by red letter F and running South eighty six degrees West across said land to the branch, all the several parts of said Lot No.5 which lie to the Southward of said line, also the Northerly room on the lower floor where Joseph [Reades] lives, and the one third of the kitchen, and likewise one third of all the out houses with a privilege og going to and from the County Road and full enjoyment of the aforesaid apputenances, both as to ingress and regress. We also then make partition and allotment of the said land fairly and equally in value between all the interested parties. Lot No.1 being all that parcel called Sweet Prospect, lying on Church Creek, the late residence of Thomas Colsten deceased, containing by patent two hundred and ninety eight acres, which we assign to James Colsten and his heirs forever; Lot No.2, all that parcel called White Haven, or Addition to White Haven, described and beginning at black W on the annexed plat and running with the yellow shaded lines round to the first beginning, as also distinguished by Lot No.2, containing one hundred and seven acres; also a Lott and several houses thereon on Church Creek, being a part of Addition to White Haven, known by the name of the white store according to its metes and bounds, distinguished also by Lot No.2 with the yellow shaded lines on the same plat hereunto annexed; also part of a tract called Brannock's Delight which was conveyed by Samuel Williams to the heirs of Thomas Colsten, containing fifty acres; also all that parcel called the Honorable Division, lying on Black Water River, beginning at the black letter S on the large plat hereunto surveyed and distinguished by the yellow shaded lines and Lot No.2, containing one hundred and ninety three acres; and all that tract called Colsten's Puzzle, distinguished on the large plat hereunto annexed, beginning at the red letter A and marked Lot No.2 with yellow shaded lines, containing forty three acres with a right or privilege of a cart way leading from said lot of forty three acres through the lots hereafter mentioned as Lots No.3 and Lot No.4 to the County Road so as to injure said lots as little as possible, containing in all the several parts together three hundred and ninety three acres, which we assign to Eliza Williams, formerly Eliza Colsten and her heirs forever; Lot No.3 being the several tracts which lie on the North side of the distinguished blue shaded lines on the large plat hereunto annexed, beginning for said lines as division of [illegible - probably "red"] MB and running to red letter C, then to red letter L and so on to red letter E [illegible] blue shaded lines, except eight and a half acres of land, Colsten's Puzzle," distinguished on the plat by 4 containing four acres [illegible] twenty three acres; and also a lot at the head of Church Creek, being a part of Addition to White Haven and called the upper lot, distinguished by the number 3 on the small plat hereunto annexed, all the aforesaid lands as distinguished by a No.3 on this small plat, all the land distinguished by the No.3 generally, we assign to Samuel Colsten and his heirs forever; Lot No.4 being all the several tracts which lie to the Northward of the following lines: beginning at blue letter A and running with the blue shaded line to blue letter MB, then to letter C as distinguished on the plat hereunto annexed included within the yellow shaded lines all those several parts that lie to the Northward and of the before mentioned lines up to Lot No.3, except the forty three acres as aforesaid assigned to Eliza, including a small part of said Colsten's Puzzle, being partly detached from the main body marked No.4, containing four hundred and thirty six acres; also eight and a half acres, being part of Colsten's Puzzle distinguished on the plat in a long slippe shaded with yellow marked No.4; and also all that unimproved lot lying on the head of Church Creek being part of Addition to White Haven, containing one and three quarter acres, distinguished on the small plat with yellow shaded lines marked No.4, all of the lands distinguished generally by a No.4 we assign to Thomas Colsten and his heirs forever; and Lot No.5 being all the several parcels which lie to the Southward of the last mentioned divisional lines of Lot No.4, shaded with blue and yellow on the annexed plat containing two hundred and seventy four acres as marked No.5, also all that part of a tract called Tastell's Venture heretofore conveyed by Catharine Colsten to Thomas Colsten, deceased, said to contain thirty acres, we assign to William Colsten and his heirs forever. [signed] Richard Mattison, Samuel LeCompte, and James [illegible]. Se plats and certificates in the original commission. Recorded by Richardson, Dorchester County clerk.

Grantor	Grantee	Parcel	Acreage	Lib:No:Fol	Type
Levin Moore	John Mace	slave Cullie Stephens	[none]	ER:5:561	Bill of Sale

July 19, 1819: John Mace of Dorchester County in the State of Maryland buys for $340.00 from Levin Moore, also of Dorchester County, the slave boy Cullie Stephens, age about fourteen or fifteen years. Witness: Justice of the Peace John Donovan.

Grantor	Grantee	Parcel	Acreage	Lib:No:Fol	Type
Allison Mace & Stephen T. Mace	John Williams	Head Range, Cornwall, Brettell & Tinian	[not stated]	ER:6:260	Deed

May 18, 1820: Alley Son (Allison) Mace and Stephen T. Mace of Dorchester County in the State of Maryland sell for $550.00 to John Williams, also of Dorchester County, all that parcel lying in Dorchester County near Fishing Creek (a.k.a. Callen Church Creek) which was devised to Allison Mace and Stephen T. Mace by the Last Will and Testament of Ezechael (Ezekiel) Mace and which is called Head Range; also another parcel being conveyed herein is part of a original tract called called Cornwall; and a third parcel is part of one called Brettell; and the fourth parcel is part of the tract called Tinian. Witnesses: Justice of the Peace William B. Martin and Arthur Rich.

Grantor	Grantee	Parcel	Acreage	Lib:No:Fol	Type
James Moore	Nicholas Mace	Goods & chattels	[none]	ER:9:257	Bill of Sale

December 31, 1823: Nicholas Mace of Dorchester County in the State of Maryland buys for $23.00 from James Moore, also of Dorchester County, the following goods and chattels: One covet [sic], one bull, one horse & cow with calf, one small heifer, one plow, three sheep, two chests, two beds & furniture, five chairs, one table, all my crockware & earthen ware, half my knives & forks, one pair sad irons, one pair shovel & tongs, and one iron pot. Witness: Justice of the Peace Levin Richardson. It is further stated by James Moore that the intent of this bill of sale is to secure to Nicholas Mace the sum of twenty three dollars and no more.

Grantor	Grantee	Parcel	Acreage	Lib:No:Fol	Type
Stephen T. Mace	Thomas Lockerman	Callie, Indian Lott & Wear Neck	72.5	ER:9:491	Deed

November 22, 1824: Stephen Theodore Mace of the City of Baltimore in Baltimore Count, State of Maryland, sells for $9.00 per acre to Thomas Lockerman of Dorchester County the parcels Callie, Indian Lott and Wear Neck, containing seventy two and a half acres, and which is the same part of a tract that was sold to Nicholas Mace and afterwards devised by Nicholas Mace to the said Stephen Theodore Mace. Witnesses: Justices of the Peace in the City of Baltimore Thomas W. Griffith and William Clemm; and Samuel Tarnandes; William Gibson is Baltimore City clerk.

Grantor	Grantee	Parcel	Acreage	Lib:No:Fol	Type
Noah Dixon	John Mace	Keens Inclosure & Lot No.Six	50	ER:11:77	Deed

May 20, 1828: John Mace of Dorchester County in the State of Maryland buys for $612.50 plus $1.00 from Noah Dixon, trustee appointed by the Chancery Court of Dorchester County to sell the real estate of M. Garrison Dixon, late of Dorchester County, consisting of part of the tract called Keens Inclosure and Lot No.Six as surveyed by Arthur Bell according to his plat and certificate dated October 14, 1824, and which is described as follows: Beginning at the end of the eighth course of the tract called Keens Inclosure, and from thence running North fifty and three quarter degrees East thirty four perches, thence North twenty four and three quarter degrees West ten and a half perches, thence North forty four degrees East twenty two perches to the divisional line between Amelia Keene and the aforesaid Garrison Dixon, thence binding with said line South fifty five and a quarter degrees East seventy two perches to Martin L. Wright's Lot No.Four, thence reverse the same South twenty degrees West one hundred and thirty five perches to the eighth course of the aforesaid Keens Inclosure, thence with the same to the place of beginning, containing fifty acres. Witnesses: Justices of the Peace Isaac F. Williams and Thomas Jones.

Grantor	Grantee	Parcel	Acreage	Lib:No:Fol	Type
John Mace & wife Mary Mace	Noah Dixon	Keens Inclosure & Lot No.Six	50	ER:11:78	Deed

May 20, 1828: John Mace of Dorchester County in the State of Maryland sells for $612.50 to Noah Dixon, also of Dorchester County, the very same tract called Keens Inclosure and Lot No.Six which is located in Dorchester County on and near the County Road near Church Creek, and which was described in Liber ER No.11, Folio 77. Witnesses: Justices of the Peace Isaac F. Williams and Thomas Jones.

Grantor	Grantee	Parcel	Acreage	Lib:No:Fol	Type
Levin Richardson	John Mace, et al.	[not named]	0.25	ER:12:503	Deed

February 15, 1832: John Mace, William A. Barrow, Thomas C. Jones, Charles U. Pell, Hugh Neild, and Whitefield Moolford of Dorchester County in the State of Maryland buy for $5.00 from Levin Richardson, also of Dorchester County, the tract lying in Dorchester County on the North side of a well known cart road leading from the County Road to the timbered land of the said Levin Richardson, generally known as Neild's Road, the metes and bounds beginning at a post set down [illegible] on the North side of the cart road, and from thence running West five perches to another post, then running North eight perches to another post, then running East five perches to another post, then by a straight line to the place of beginning, containing one quarter acre ... [for a schoolhouse, it would seem from the largely illegible remainder of this deed - GL,III, ed.] Witnesses: Whitefield Moolford & Hugh Neild.

Grantor	Grantee	Parcel	Acreage	Lib:No:Fol	Type
Henry Page	John T. Mace	Lot No.One	107	ER:14:94	Deed

April 29, 1834: John T. Mace of Dorchester County in the State of Maryland buys for $995.10, through the intermediary Samuel Molray, from Henry Page, also of Dorchester County, appointed as trustee by the Chancery Court of Dorchester County to sell and dispose of the real estate of George Graham, late of Dorchester County, deceased, for the payment of his debts, Lot No.One, containing one hundred and seven acres, which is enclosed within the following metes and bounds: Beginning at a light wood post with twelve notches standing on the East side of the Worlds End Creek, being also a bounder made the beginning bounder of the whole real estate and noted in the plat by the letter A, and from thence running the following four courses: binding with said creek North twenty six degrees East twenty three perches, then North nine and a quarter degrees East twenty eight perches, then North six degrees West fourteen perches, then North twenty five degrees East eleven and a half perches to a locust post with four notches thereon set down on the West end of the divisional line between John T. Mace and Thomas C. Jones, John Jones of Col. and Levin Jones of John T.P., and from thence running with said divisional line reversed South fifty and a half degrees East one hundred and ninety five perches to a locust post set down at the West side of the County Road (said post has four notches thereon) thence running & binding with said road South forty four and a half degrees West twenty two perches, then South sixty five and a half degrees West forty eight perches, then South sixty seven degrees West eighty perches, thence with the County Road leading from the Worlds End Bridge to William W. Lakes store North twenty two and a quarter degrees West seventy and a half perches, thence North fifty eight and a half degrees West fifty perches to the Worlds End Creek, thence binding with said creek North thirty eight and a half degrees nineteen perches to the County Road last named, then by a straight line to the place of beginning, containing one hundred and seven acres. Witnesses: Justices of the Peace John Newton & Solomon Kirwan; and Samuel Molray.

Grantor	Grantee	Parcel	Acreage	Lib:No:Fol	Type
John Mace & wife Mary M. Mace	Thomas C. Jones et al.	Lot No.One	0.75	ER:14:385	Deed

January 26, 1835: John Mace and his wife Mary M. Mace,both of Dorchester County in the State of Maryland, sell for $30.00 to Thomas C. Jones, John Jones, and William Cooper, also of Dorchester County, 3/4 acre of the tract lying in Dorchester County near the Worlds End Bridge and near the Forrest Road which intersects the County Road near where Edward Griffith lived and died, the said lot being a part of Lot No.One of the land sold by Henry Page, trustee for the sale of George Graham's real estate [see Liber ER No.14, Folio 94], which is contained within the following metes and bounds: Beginning at a locust post near the aforesaid Forrest Road, which post has two notches, then running South sixty five degrees West nineteen perches to a locust post with four notches, then North twenty five degrees West six perches to a locust post with six notches, then North sixty five degrees East nineteen perches to a locust post with eight notches, then South twenty five degrees East six perches to the place of beginning, containing three quarters of an acre. Witnesses: Justices of the Peace Solomon Kirwan and Henry L. McNamara.

Grantor	Grantee	Parcel	Acreage	Lib:No:Fol	Type
John G. Bell, Sheriff	John D. Farquhausen	Griffiths Attainment	208	ER:15:71	Deed

September 7, 1835: John D. Farquhausen of Dorchester County in the State of Maryland buys at a publicly advertised sale for $375.00 from John G. Bell, Esquire, Sheriff of Dorchester County, who is obeying a writ of fieri facias for Noah Dixon against Levin T. Fisher, late of Dorchester County, the land located in Straights Hundred in Dorchester County, which land is the same as was sold to Levin T. Fisher by Henry Page, trustee appointed to sell the real estate of Edward Griffith, deceased, and known as Griffiths Attainment and containing two hundred and eight acres. Witnesses: Justices of the Peace John Newton and Lewis Ross.

Grantor	Grantee	Parcel	Acreage	Lib:No:Fol	Type
John T. Mace & wife Mary Margaret Mace	Lake Robinson	Lot No.One	107-	ER:15:211	Deed

February 8, 1836: John T. Mace and his wife Mary Margaret Mace, both of Dorchester County in the State of Maryland, sell for $1,000.00 to Lake Robinson, also of Dorchester County, Lot No.One, the parcel which Henry Page, also of Dorchester County, appointed as trustee by the Chancery Court of Dorchester County to sell and dispose of the real estate of George Graham, sold to John T. Mace by deed dated April 29, 1834, and recorded in Liber ER No.14, Folio 94], contained within the following metes and bounds: Beginning at a light wood post with twelve notches standing on the East side of the Worlds End Creek, being also a bounder made the beginning bounder of the whole real estate and noted in the plat by the letter A, and from thence running the following four courses: binding with said creek North twenty six degrees East twenty three perches, then North nine and a quarter degrees East twenty eight perches, then North six degrees West fourteen perches, then North twenty five degrees East eleven and a half perches to a locust post with four notches thereon set down on the West end of the divisional line between John T. Mace and Thomas C. Jones, John Jones of Col. and Levin Jones of John T.P., and from thence running with said divisional line reversed South fifty and a half degrees East one hundred and ninety five perches to a locust post set down at the West side of the County Road (said post has four notches thereon) thence running & binding with said road South forty four and a half degrees West twenty two perches, then South sixty five and a half degrees West forty eight perches, then South sixty seven degrees West eighty perches, thence with the County Road leading from the Worlds End Bridge to William W. Lakes store North twenty two and a quarter degrees West seventy and a half perches, thence North fifty eight and a half degrees West fifty perches to the Worlds End Creek, thence binding with said creek North thirty eight and a half degrees nineteen perches to the County Road last named, then by a straight line to the place of beginning, containing one hundred and seven acres, excepting so much of said parcel which John T. Mace and Mary Margaret Mace sold to Thomas C. Jones. John Jones of Col. and William C. Cooper by deed dated January 15, 1835 and recorded in Liber ER No.14, Folio 385, and also with the exception of a small piece of said parcel reserved by John T. Mace and his wife Mary Margaret Mace for their own use for right of way to the County Road, contained within the following metes and bounds: Within a line thirty six feet in length, running along the North edge of the grave of George Cook Mowbray, son of Samuel Mobray, and parallel with said grave, and a line from each end of said line and at right angles with said line, running straight back to the division line between the said John T. Mace and the land on which Barzillai Slocum now lives, let the said piece contain whatever quantity it may. Witnesses: Justices of the Peace Solomon Kirwan and Henry L. McNamara.

Grantor	Grantee	Parcel	Acreage	Lib:No:Fol	Type
Henry Page, trustee	John T. Mace	Project, Worlds End, Taylors Shad Landing, Hazzard, Taylors Landing & Griffiths Attainment	42.5, 29,9, 20, 18, & 61.25	ER:15:310	Deed

May 2, 1836: John T. Mace of Dorchester County in the State of Maryland buys for $550.00 from Henry Page, appointed trustee by the Chancery Court of Dorchester County to sell and dispose of the real estate of Edward Griffith, late of Dorchester county, for the payment of his debts, through the intermediary of John D. Farquhauson, who had purchased the land at sheriff's sale (Liber ER No.15 , Folio71) and later assigned it to John T. Mace, including the tracts called Project (with forty two and a half acres), Worlds End (with twenty nine acres), Taylors Shad Landing (with nine acres), Hazzard (with twenty acres), Taylors Landing (with eighteen acres), part of Griffiths Attainment (with sixty one and a quarter acres), making altogether two hundred acres. Witnesses: Justices of the Peace John Newton and T.J. Pattison.

Grantor	Grantee	Parcel	Acreage	Lib:No:Fol	Type
John Bunting & wife Rose Ann Bunting	Joseph Stewart	Blackford, Maces Chance, Addition to Chance & Colstens Good Will	230	ER:17:315	Deed

June 21, 1839: Joseph Stewart of Dorchester County in the State of Maryland buys for $2,141.875 from John Bunting and his wife Rose Ann Bunting, also of Dorchester County, the tracts called Blackford, part of Mace's Chance, part of Addition to Chance, and part of Colstens Goodwill (Good Will), lying in Dorchester County and contained within the following metes and bounds: Beginning for the out bounds of the whole at a square stone set down on the edge of Hodsons Branch, it being the first boundary of Colstens Good Will, also a divisional boundary between the late William Colsten and thomas Colsten, and from thence running West twenty perches to the middle of said branch, thence with the same South seven degrees East one hundred and seventeen perches to a locust post, a bounder for that part of Colstens Good Will conveyed to John Mace, thence binding with said tract by the four following courses: North thirty eight degrees East seventy seven and a half perches, then North thirty seven degrees West ten perches, then North ten perches, then South seventy and a half degrees East two hundred and nineteen and a half perches to another locust post standing in the line of that part of Blackford that was conveyed by Murray to Brunwood, it also being the first boundary of said part of Colstens Good Will conveyed to John Mace, thence binding with said part of Blackwood conveyed to Brunwood, North by East thirty six and a half perches, then North seventy degrees West sixty nine and a half perches, then North twenty one degrees East five perches, then North six and a half degrees East twenty perches, then North [five] degrees West forty and a half perches to a stone by the side of the County Rosd, the first boundary of said part of Blackford conveyed to Brunwood, thence north seventy three degrees East sixteen perches to the middle of said Hodsons Branch, thence binding with the middle of Hodsons Branch by the following courses: North two degrees West twelve perches, then North twelve degrees East twenty two perches, then North thirty three and a half degrees West twelve perches, then North seven and a half degrees East thirty four perches, South fifty and a half degrees West nine perches, then North sixty five degrees West twenty perches, then North forty degrees West twenty two perches, then North sixteen degrees West twenty two perches, then North sixty five degrees West sixteen perches, then South four degrees East twenty two perches, then South sixteen degrees West sixteen perches, then South twenty eight degrees West fourteen perches, then South forty seven and a half degrees West forty eight perches, then North seventy degrees West forty perches, then North twenty eight degrees West thirty three perches, then South sixteen degrees West twenty two perches, then South fifty four degrees West forty nine perches, then by a straight line to the place of beginning, containing two hundred and thirty acres. Witnesses: Justices of the Peace T.J. Pattison and James Hammersly.

Grantor	Grantee	Parcel	Acreage	Lib:No:Fol	Type
Samuel LeCompte	John Mace	Colsten's Good Will		ER:15:510	Deed

October 28, 1836: John Mace of Dorchester County in the State of Maryland buys for $2,400.00 from Samuel LeCompte, also of Dorchester County, the land known as Colsten's Good Will, which Samuel LeCompte had obtained from William Colsten of Dorchester by deed dated February 5, 1830, in order to secure payment of Colsten's debts and subsequently sold on August 13, 1830, [whatever happened to the intervening six years ? - GL,III, ed.] to John Mace the tract called Colstens Good Will which is located in Dorchester County near the head of Church Creek and which is contained within the following metes and bounds: Beginning at a marked locust post with five notches thereon standing in the fifth course of the said land and at the distance of fifty perches from the beginning thereof, and from thence running South by West forty nine and a half perches to a marked pine standing on the North edge of the new road commonly called Kentucky Road, then with said road South eighty seven and a half degrees East ninety five and a half perches to a sassafras post and stone in a line of a tract called Two Brothers, thence with the same South twenty nine degrees Westone hundred and eighty four perches to another sassafras post and stone, then West forty eight [perches] to another post and stone, then North twenty nine degrees West one hundred and nine perches to another post and stone, then South forty two and a half degrees West fifty seven perches to another post and stone, then West by South twenty perches, then North sixty four degrees West eight perches to the West side of the County Road, thence with the said County Road North fifteen degrees West twenty seven and a half perches to a locust post set down at the end of a division line between William Holsten and John S. Barrow, deceased, then with the said division line South seventy seven degrees West one hundred and seventeen perches to a post on the side of Hodsons Branch, then West South West forty seven perches, thence with the middle of said branch North fifty two perches, then North sixty one degrees West fifty three perches, then North seventeen degrees West eighteen perches, then North forty three degrees East thirty seven perches, then North seventeen degrees West twenty two perches, thence North sixty five degrees West seventy perches to a locust post set down near the edge of the branch, then with ditch North thirty eight degrees East seventy five perches to the fence and ditch at the woods, then North sixty nine degrees West eight perches, then still with the fence and ditch North ten perches, thence by a straight line to the place of beginning, containing three hundred acres. Witnesses: Justices of the Peace John Newton and Henry L. McNamara.

Grantor	Grantee	Parcel	Acreage	Lib:No:Fol	Type
John Bunting & wife Rose Ann	William Rea	Sweet Prospect	[not stated]	WJ:2:32	Trust Deed

April 6, 1844: John Bunting and his wife Rose Ann Bunting, both of Dorchester County in the State of Maryland, sell for $5.00 and promises to be kept to William Rea, also of Dorchester County, all the farm in Brannocks Neck in Dorchester County that is known as Sweet Prospect, and which John Bunting and his wife Rose Ann Bunting are to hold in trust and to sell and dispose of said farm in such manner and on such terms asfor all deem most advisable, and the purchase money when received shall be applied to the payment of the mortgage of Levi Travers on said farm, and the claim due on the estate of Henry Page and the balance after deducting necessary expenses and a reasonable compensation pay over to the said John and Rose Ann Bunting. Witnesses: Justices of the Peace James Rea and Charles Corkran.

Grantor	Grantee	Parcel	Acreage	Lib:No:Fol	Type
William Rea	Hooper C. Hicks	Sweet Prospect	[Not stated]	WJ:2:198	Deed

December 27, 1844: Hooper C. Hicks of Dorchester County in the State of Maryland buys for $5.00 from William Rea, trustee, also of Dorchester County, all that tract called Sweet Prospect, lying in Brannocks Neck in Dorchester County, which was conveyed to William Rea by John Bunting and Rose Ann Bunting on February 14, 1844, which has been sold by the said Bunting and wife to the said Hooper C. Hicks without the intervention of the trustee and without regard to the said trust deed as then intended. Witnesses: James Rea and Justice of the Peace Charles Corkran.

Grantor	Grantee	Parcel	Acreage	Lib:No:Fol	Type
James A. Stewart, trustee	John Mace	Blackford, Mace's Chance, Addition to Chance & Colsten's Good Will	230	WJ:2:433	Deed

August 12, 1845: John Mace of Dorchester County in the State of Maryland buys for $1,499.60 from James A. Stewart, trustee appointed by the High Court of Chancery to dispose of the real estate of Joseph Stewart, late of Dorchester County, all of the farm where Thomas Mace, son of John Mace, now resides, embracing the following tracts: Blackford, Mace's Chance, Addition to Chance, and Colsten's Good Will, containing two hundred and thirty acres, but subject to the widow's dower right. Witnesses: Justices of the Peace Robert Bell and William W. LeCompte.

Grantor	Grantee	Parcel	Acreage	Lib:No:Fol	Type
John Tubman	Thomas Mace & Z.W. Linthicum	Resolution	94.5	WJ:4:422	Deed

November 21, 1848: Thomas Mace and Z.W. Linthicum of Dorchester County in the State of Maryland buys for $975.00 from John Tubman, also or Dorchester County, the 94-1/2 acre tract called Resolution, lying in Dorchester County within the following metes and bounds: Beginning at a sassafras post and stone at the end of the tenth line of the division line of the whole tract, commencing at a stone near Big Black Water bridge, and from thence running North forty five degrees West one hundred and one and a quarter perches, thence North thirty three and three quarter degrees East one hundred and fifty five and a quarter perches to the fifty fourth line of the whole tract, thence with said line South twenty nine degrees East two hundred and twenty eight perches to a tract called Tubman's Discovery, thence South three degrees West twenty six perches, thence North twenty nine degrees West seventy one and a half perches, thence South sixty one degrees West forty four perches, thence North twenty nine degrees West ninety nine perches, thence South one hundred and twenty one perches, and from thence to the place of beginning, containing ninety four and a half acres. Witnesses: Justices of the Peace James Hammersly and Whitefield Woolford.

Grantor	Grantee	Parcel	Acreage	Lib:No:Fol	Type
John Mace & wife Mary	Thomas Mace	Blackford, Mace's Chance, Addition to Chance & Colstens Good Will	231	WJ:5:121	Deed

September 3, 1849: John Mace and his wife Mary Mace of Dorchester County in the State of Maryland sell for $500.00 to Thomas Mace, also of Dorchester County, all the 231 acre farm located near Church Creek in Dorchester County and embracing the following tracts: Blackford, Mace's Chance, Addition to Chance, and Colstens Good Will, containing two hundred and thirty one acres, subject to the right of dower of the widow of Joseph Stewart, it being the same land purchased from James A. Stewart, trustee for the sale of the real estate of Joseph Stewart, by deed dated August 12, 1845, and recorded in Liber WJ No.2, Folio 433. For courses and distances, refer to the deed from John Bunting and wife to Joseph Stewart dated June 12, 1839 and recorded in Liber ER No.17, Folio 315. Witnesses: Justices of the Peace James Hammersly and Whitefield Woolford.

Grantor	Grantee	Parcel	Acreage	Lib:No:Fol	Type
Zachariah W. Linthicum	Thomas Mace	Resolution	97.5	WJ:5:130	Deed

September 10, 1849: Thomas Mace of Dorchester County in the State of Maryland buys for $260.00 from Zachariah W. Linthicum, also of Dorchester County, part of the tract called Resolution, lying in Dorchester County and contained within the following metes and bounds: Beginning at a sassafras post and stone at the end of the tenth line of the division line of the whole tract, commencing at a stone near Big Black Water bridge and from thence running North forty five degrees West one hundred and one and a quarter perches, thence North thirty three and three quarter degrees East one hundred and fifty six and a quarter perches to the fifty fourth line of the whole tract, thence with said line South twenty nine degrees East two hundred and twenty eight perches to a tract called Tubmans Discovery, thence South three degrees West twenty six perches, thence North twenty nine degrees West seventy and a half perches, thence South sixty one degrees West forty four perches, thence North twenty nine degrees West ninety nine perches, thence South one hundred and twenty one perches, and from thence to the place of beginning, containing ninety seven and a half acres, it being the same land which Zachariah W. Linthicum and Thomas Mace purchased from John Tubman by deed dated November 20, 1848, and recorded in Liber WJ No.4, Folio 422. Witnesses: Justices of the Peace James Rea and Charles Corkran.

Grantor	Grantee	Parcel	Acreage	Lib:No:Fol	Type
James Fooks & wife Margaret W.	Samuel Pattison	Sweet Prospect	153+	FJH:2:64	Deed

October 7, 1852: James Fooks and his wife Margaret W. Fooks, both of Dorchester County in the State of Maryland sell for $4,595.00 to Samuel Pattison of the City of Baltimore, all that parcel called Sweet Prospect, lying in Dorchester Count and enclosed within the following metes and bounds: Beginning at a stone and post set down in the mouth of a small cove, and from thence running South eleven degrees West thirteen and 60/100 perches to another post, and from thence South forty three and three quarter degrees East one hundred and fifty eight and 32/100 perches to the intersection of the twentieth line of the land belonging to Thomas Brannock and from thence running North fifty seven and a half degrees West one hundred and sixty three perches to a bounder of John R. Martin's land, and then with said land South eighty degrees West sixty nine perches to another bounder, then South fifty seven degrees West fifty nine perches to the waters of Church Creek, then binding with the said waters and Colsten's Cove, the following courses: South fifty one and a half degrees East seven perches, then South one and a half degrees East fourteen perches, then South fifty degrees East sixteen perches, then South sixty three degrees East eighteen perches, then South eighty six degrees East six perches, then North twenty nine and a half degrees East twenty two perches, then South fifty four degrees East thirty six perches, then North eighty one and three quarter degrees East forty two perches, then North twenty six degrees East fourteen perches, then South sixty six and a quarter degrees East sixteen perches, South eleven degrees East nineteen perches, then South twenty eight and a half degrees West sixteen perches, then South seventy nine and three quarter degrees West eight perches, then South forty nine and a quarter degrees West eight and 44/100 perches to the place of beginning, containing one hundred and fifty three acres and thirty four and a half perches, it being a part of the same tract conveyed by Hoofur C. Hicks to the said James Fooks by deed dated April 28, 1845 and recorded in Liber WJ No.2, Folio 369, with the reservation of the first part of one-eighth of an acre, it being a grave yard, with the further reservation that the said James Fooks and his heirs and assigns shall have a right of way by a road twenty feet wide leading across said land from the John Diller house so called to the Brannock Neck or County Road, it being distinctly understood and agreed by the parties that the said Samuel Pattison shall have the right at any time to change the direction of said road or to make a new road of the same width to the said County Road. Witnesses: Justices of the Peace James Rae and Charles Corkran; Francis J. Henry is Dorchester County clerk.

Grantor	Grantee	Parcel	Acreage	Lib:No:Fol	Type
Hooper C. Hicks	James Fooks	Sweet Prospect	298	WJ:2:369	Deed

May 22, 1845: Hooper C. Hicks of Dorchester County in the State of Maryland sells for $5,000.00 to James Fooks of the City and County of Baltimore, all of the tract called Sweet Prospect, lying in Dorchester County and described by a Commission recorded in Liber ER No.5 Folio 72, dated April 2, 1817, upon the petition of William Colsten against James Colsten, Thomas Colsten, Eliza Colsten and Samuel Colsten to divide the real estate of Thomas Colston (Colsten), the said tract having been devised by James Colsten to Samuel Colsten, and by Samuel Colsten to Eliza Williams, and by Eliza Williams devised to Rose Ann Colsten and Rose Ann Bunting, wife of John Bunting. Witnesses: Justices of the Peace Wiliam W. LeCompte and Robert Betts.

Grantor	Grantee	Parcel	Acreage	Lib:No:Fol	Type
Thomas Willis	John W. Mace and Zachariah W. Linthicum	Two Brothers	76.75	FJH:3:470	Deed

March 1, 1856: John W. Mace and Zachariah W. Linthicum, both of Dorchester County in the State of Maryland, buy for $825.00 from Thomas Willis, also of Dorchester County, all that 76-3/4 acre tract called Two Brothers, which was purchased by Thomas Willis from the estate of Nathan Richards, lying in Dorchester County and contained within the following metes and bounds: Beginning at a marked cedar post & gum standing in a cane swamp at the South West side of William Dorsey's [hard to read] lands and from thence running South five degrees East one hundred and thirty perches to the intersection of the division line between [illegible] Spencer and Henry Spencer, thence running & binding with said division line North fifty degrees West one hundred and twenty three perches, then North six degrees East one hundred and twenty perches, then South seventeen degrees East one hundred perches, then South fifty nine degrees East twenty perches, then by a straight line to the place of beginning, containing seventy six and three quarter acres. Witness: Justice of the Peace David M. Robinson.

Grantor	Grantee	Parcel	Acreage	Lib:No:Fol	Type
John R. Martin & wife Harriett Ann Martin	John W. Mace and Zachariah W. Linthicum	North Range & Colsten Lane; and Keenes Inclosure	50 & 50	FJH:3:471	Deed

March 1, 1856: John W. Mace and Zachariah W. Linthicum, both of Dorchester County in the State of Maryland, buy for $2,550.00 from John R. Martin and his wife Harriett Ann Martin, also of Dorchester County: (1) 50 acres in the two tracts of land called North Range and Colsten Lane, lying in Dorchester County and contained within the following metes and bounds: Beginning for the out lines of the entire parcel at the distance of two perches East from the end of the East line of Kiener and [illegible], thence running South twenty degrees West sixty five perches, then South eighty three degrees East one hundred and sixty nine perches to Pelar Williams land, then running with the said land to the intersection of the second line of Dorsey's Range, and then running to the West with said lands to the first bounder of such lands, then by a straight line to the place of beginning, containing fifty acres; and (2) also another 50 acres in all that part of Keene's Inclosure which was bought by [John Martin] from the estate of Joseph Stewart: Beginning for the out lines of the same at the end of thity five and a half perches distance on the sixth line of the original tract and from thence running with the said line South twelve degrees West one hundred and [seventy] three perches to the end thereof, thence North fifty six degrees West seventy one perches, thence North twenty degrees East fifty nine perches, thence South fifty six degrees East thirty five and a half perches, thence North twenty degrees East one hundred and fourteen and a half perches,, thence to the place of beginning, containing fifty acres. Witness: Justice of the Peace David M. Robinson.

Grantor	Grantee	Parcel	Acreage	Lib:No:Fol	Type
William Rea, trustee	Charles P. Straughn & wife Leah	Forest Range	170	FJH:3:558	Deed

August 8, 1856: William Rea, trustee of Dorchester County in the State of Maryland, sells for [an undisclosed sum] to Charles P. Straughn and his wife Leah Straughn, also of Dorchester County, according to a decree of Circuit Court of Dorchester County dated July 21, 1855, in the case of Lydia Bradley, next friend of William W. Wrightson and Mary M. Wrightson vs. William W. Wrightson and Mary M. Wrightson, in which William Rea was appointed trustee to sell the lands decreed to be sold as he has now done. The land lies in Dorchester County near [illegible] Point Neck and adjoins the lands of Charles M. Greenwood and Andrew J. Robinson and also adjoins the Little Choptank River; it is called Forest Range and contains one hundred and seventy acres. Witnesses: Elias [illegible] and Charles Corkran.

Grantor	Grantee	Parcel	Acreage	Lib:No:Fol	Type
Skinner Richardson & wife Mary & Samuel Harrington	John W. Mace and Zachariah W. Linthicum	Hoopers Plantation	46+	FJH:3:605	Deed

November 13, 1856: John W. Mace and Zachariah W. Linthicum, both of Dorchester County in the State of Maryland, buy for $325.32 from Skinner Richardson and his wife Mary Richardson and Samuel Harrington, also of Dorchester County, the tract called Hooper's Plantation, lying in Dorchester County within the following metes and bounds: Beginning at a sassafras post placed North sixty nine and three quarter degrees West one hundred and thirty seven and a half perches from an oak tree at the end of the division line between Martin D. Wright and William [illegible] lands and running thence South seven and a half degrees East one hundred and thirty four perches, thence [West] forty perches, then South thirty degrees West eleven perches, then North eleven degrees West one hundred and sixty [one] perches, then South [sixty] nine and three quarter degrees East sixty three perches to the beginning, containing forty six acres, one rood, and thirty six perches. Witnesses: Justice of the Peace David W. Robinson and Richard S. Richardson.

Grantor	Grantee	Parcel	Acreage	Lib:No:Fol	Type
Benjamin Travers & wife Dorinda H. Travers	John W. Mace, Zachariah W. Linthicum, & Solaman Messick	Griffiths Last Adventure	100	FJH:4:38	Deed

June 11, 1857: John W. Mace, Zacahriah W. Linthicum, and Solaman Messick, all of Dorchester County in the State of Maryland, as tenants in common and not as joint tenants, buy for $1,000.00 from Benjamin Travers and his wife Dorinda H. Travers, also of Dorchester County, the 100 acre tract lying in Dorchester County called Griffith's Last Adventure, contained within the following metes and bounds: Beginning at the end of the thirty first course of the said tract, it being the beginning of Richard Wallace's lands, also parts of the same tract on which John Griffith formerly lived, then running North fifty two degrees West thirty four perches to a bounded post, then South twenty two degrees West sixty eight Perches, then South forty degrees East thirty three perches, then South sixty seven degrees East ninety six perches to intersect a parcel of land called Keene's Timber Yard, then with the said land East twenty perches, then East South East twenty six perches, then South six degrees East twenty perches, then South eighty one degrees East twenty six perches, then South fifty two degrees East twenty perches, then South fifty two degrees East to a marked post standing by the side of a path that leads from the road gate of Thomas Travers' field, then North fifteen degrees East till a course drawn North seventy one degrees West will strike the end of the twenty seventh course of the said lands, which is North seventy one degrees West, and to continue on the twenty seventh course of the said land to the end of the same, then running the several courses of the said lands [here the scribe grew weary of writing so many courses or ran out of paper - GL,III, ed.] to the first beginning, containing one hundred acres. Witness: Justice of the Peace [illegible] C. Woodland.

Grantor	Grantee	Parcel	Acreage	Lib:No:Fol	Type
James W. Stewart & wife Rebecca S.	John W. Mace and Zachariah W. Linthicum	Ennalls Out Range	71	FJH:4:57	Deed

July 31, 1857: John W. Mace and Zachariah W. Linthicum, both of Dorchester County in the State of Maryland, buy for $1,400.00 from James W. Stewart and his wife Rebecca S. Stewart, all that 71 acre tract called Ennalls Out Range, which formerly belonged to James Chaplin and which was also purchased by the said James W. Stewart from the Chaplins, and which is contained within the following metes and bounds: Beginning for the out lines of this tract at a large cedar post set in the Indian line which on the plat [is noted] by the letter A, and from thence running South seventy perches to a post and stone, thence South sixty nine and a half degrees East one hundred and ninety five perches, then North fifty four perches to the said Indian line, then with the same to the place of beginning, containing seventy one acres. Witnesses: Justice of the Peace Samuel W. LeCompte and Delias B. Bayly.

Grantor	Grantee	Parcel	Acreage	Lib:No:Fol	Type
Sarah Earle & Lloyd W. Valiante	John W. Mace and Zachariah W. Linthicum	Smith Land	36.5	FJH:4:197	Deed

May 21, 1858: John W. Mace and Zachariah W. Linthicum, both of Dorchester County in the State of Maryland, buy for $1,000.00 from Sarah Earle and Lloyd Valiante of Talbot County, all that 36-1/2 acre tract called Smith Land, situated in Dorchester County near Church Creek, and which is described by the following metes and bounds: Beginning at a post and stone set down near the middle of the original tract, and from thence running North seven degrees East sixty four perches, thence South eighty three degrees East eighty three perches, thence South eight degrees East sixty six perches, thence North eighty three degrees West ninety seven and a half perches to the place of beginning, containing[thirty] six and a half acres. Witnesses: Justice of the Peace William L. Wrightman and John Valliante.

Grantor	Grantee	Parcel	Acreage	Lib:No:Fol	Type
William H. Yates	John W. Mace	House & lot	[not stated]	FJH:4:125	Deed

January 5, 1858:John W. Mace of Dorchester County in the State of Maryland buys for $247.00 from William H. Yates (Gates), also of Dorchester County, all that house and lot on Church Creek which William H. Yates bought at the sale of the real estate of Thomas Woolford, deceased. Witnesses: Samuel L. Byrn and Justice of the Peace William Rea.

Grantor	Grantee	Parcel	Acreage	Lib:No:Fol	Type
Susan A. Linthicum, Zachariah W. Linthicum and his wife Sarah E.	Hester E. Linthicum	Blackford	200	FJH:4:407	Deed

April 12, 1859: Susan A. Linthicum and Zachariah W. Linthicum and his wife Sarah (Sallie) E. Linthicum, all of Dorchester County in the State of Maryland, sell for $2,000.00 to Hester E. Linthicum, also of Dorchester County, all the 200 acre tract called Blackford, which Samuel Linthicum purchased from Thomas Greenwood, located in Dorchester County, and containing about two hundred acres. Witnesses Charles S. Direann, James Fookes, and Justice of the Peace Hugh Maguire.

Grantor	Grantee	Parcel	Acreage	Lib:No:Fol	Type
John W. Mace and Zachariah W. Linthicum & wife Sarah	Dennis Cornish	North Range	4	FJH:4:407	Deed

April 12, 1859: John W. Mace and Zachariah W. Linthicum and his wife Sarah Linthicum, all of Dorchester County, sell for $100.00 to Dennis Cornish, also of Dorchester County, all the 4 acre tract called North Range which is contained within the following metes and bounds: Beginnning for the out lines of North Range at a post and stone, a bounder of John Dorsey's land, and from thence running South twenty two degrees West fifty and a quarter perches to a sassafras post, then North sixty one degrees West fifteen perches to John B. [illegible] land, then with that land North twenty two degrees East thirty five and a quarter perches to another bounder, then North seventy degrees East twenty perches to the place of beginning, containing four acres.

Grantor	Grantee	Parcel	Acreage	Lib:No:Fol	Type
Caleb Shepherd, trustee	Thomas Mace	Sweet Prospect	153+	FJH:4:426	Deed

May 6, 1859: Thomas Mace of Dorchester County in the State of Maryland, buys for [an undisclosed amount] from Caleb Shepherd, trustee (appointed by the Circuit Court of Dorchester County to sell the 153+ acres of land involved in the case of Elizabeth T.H. Pattison, for herself and as next friend of Caroline H. Pattison and Samuel Pattison against Caroline H. Pattiron and Samuel Pattison) the tract called Sweet Prospect, which is contained within the following metes and bounds: Beginning at a stone and post set down in the mouth of a small cove, and from thence running South eleven degrees West thirteen and 60/100 perches to another post, and from thence South forty three and three quarter degrees East one hundred and fifty eight and 32/100 perches to the intersection of the twentieth line of the land belonging to Thomas Brannock's heirs and from thence running North thirteen degrees East seventy six perches, thence North two degrees East fifty six perches to a stone on Brannock's Neck Road, and from thence running North fifty seven and a half degrees West one hundred and sixty three perches to a bounder of John R. Maston's land, and then with said land South eighty degrees West sixty nine perches to another bounder, then South fifty seven degrees West fifty nine perches to the waters of Church Creek, then binding with the said waters and Colsten's Cove, the following courses: South fifty one and a half degrees East seven perches, then South one and a half degrees East fourteen perches, then South fifty degrees East sixteen perches, then South sixty three deegrees East eighteen perches, then South sighty six degrees East six perches, then North twenty nine and a half degrees East twenty two perches, then South fifty four degrees East thirty six perches, then North eighty one and three quarter degrees East forty two perches, then North twenty six degrees East fourteen perches, then South sixty six and a quarter degrees East sixteen perches, then South eleven degrees Est nineteen perches, then South twenty eight and a half degrees West sixteen perches, then South seventy nine and three quarter degrees West eight perches, then South forty nine and a quarter degrees West eight and 44/100 perches to the place of beginning, containing one hundred and fifty three acres and thirty four and a half perches, excepting thereform twenty one and a half perches for the graveyard, it being the same land conveyed by James Fooks to Samuel Pattison by deed dated October 7, 1852, and recorded in Liber FJH No.2, Folio 64. Witnesses: Justice of the Peace William Rea and John H. Willoughby.

Grantor	Grantee	Parcel	Acreage	Lib:No:Fol	Type
John W. Mace and Zachariah W. Linthicum & wife Sarah	John E. Stevens	Ennalls Out Range	20	FJH:4:228	Deed

July 6,1858: John W. Mace and Zachariah W. Linthicum and his wife Sarah Linthicum, all of Dorchester County in the State of Maryland, sell for $300.00 to John E. Stevens, of the City of Baltimore, all that 20 acre tract called Ennalls Out Range, lying in Dorchester County back of Applebay Barmo and the Stone Bounder, enclosed within the following metes and bounds: Beginning at the end of the second course of the deed Cramo Bhamas Lockerman to James Chaplains, dated September 11, 1822, where stands a post and stone (letter A on the plat) and from thence running North fifty four and a half perches to the Indian line, then with said line North sixty three degrees West sixty two perches, then South fifty nine perches to the said second course, then with the same to the place of beginning, containing twenty acres. Witnesses: William I. Bowdle, James F. Stewart and Justice of the Peace Hugh MaGuire.

Grantor	Grantee	Parcel	Acreage	Lib:No:Fol	Type
John W. Mace and Zachariah W. Linthicum & wife Sarah E.	Eleanor Adkins	Ennalls Out Range	14	FJH:4:477	Deed

October 3, 1859: John W. Mace and Zachariah W. Linthicum and his wife Sarah E. Linthicum, all of Dorchester County in the State of Maryland, sell for $140.00 to Eleanor Adkins, also of Dorchester County, 14 acres of that tract called Ennalls Out Range, lying in Dorchester County which is contained within the following metes and bounds: Beginning at the end of fourteen perches on the first course of a deed from James A. Stewart to Linthicum & Mace and on the South side of the New Road, and from thence running with said first course South fifty nine perches to a stone, then South sixty nine and a half degrees East eighty nine perches to to the aforesaid New Road, then binding therewith North forty two degrees West one hundred and twenty two perches to the place of beginning, containing fourteen acres, it being a tract purchased by Linthicum & Mace from James A. Stewart called Ennalls Out Range. Witnesses: Daniel J. Orem, Charles T. Dixon, William Rea and Justice of the Peace Hugh MaGuire.

Grantor	Grantee	Parcel	Acreage	Lib:No:Fol	Type
John W. Mace and Zachariah W. Linthicum & wife Sarah E.	Charles P. Straughn & wife Leah	Forest Range	170	FJH:4:594	Mortgage to Secure a Debt

April 3, 1860: John W. Mace and Zachariah W. Linthicum and his wife Sarah E. Linthicum, all of Dorchester County in the State of Maryland, mortgage for $3,000.00 to Charles P. Straughn, also of Dorchester County, all the 170 acre tract called Forest Range, lying in Town Point Neck in Dorchester County, which is being conveyed by this same date to Charles P. Straughn and his wife Leah Straughn, containing one hundred and seventy acres, as by reference to Liber FJH No.4, Folio 595. The present mortgage grants Charles P. Straughn the right to sell the mortgaged property if John W. Mace defaults on the payment of the $3,000.00 debt; until then, John W. Mace can occupy the property without hindrance. At the bottom is the notation that Charles P. Straughn transferred the mortgage to James L. Colsten for value received on May 14, 1860.

Grantor	Grantee	Parcel	Acreage	Lib:No:Fol	Type
Charles P. Straughn & wife	John W. Mace and Zachariah W. Linthicum & wife Sarah	Forest Range	170	FJH:4:595

April 3, 1860: John W. Mace and Zachariah W. Linthicum and his wife Sarah Linthicum, all of Dorchester County in the State of Maryland, buy for $3,000.00 from Charles P. Straughn and his wife Leah Straughn all that farm which the said Charles P. Straughn purchased from William Rea, trustee for the real estate of William W. Wrightson and Mary W. Wrightson, lying in Town Point in Dorchester County, and adjoining the lands of Charles W. Breerwood and Andrew Robinson and binding upon the Little Choptank River, called Forest Range and containing one hundred and seventy acres, as described in the deed from William Rea to Charles P. Straughn dated August 9, 1856. Witness: Justice of the Peace William Rea.

Grantor	Grantee	Parcel	Acreage	Lib:No:Fol	Type
William W. Mace & wife Annie	Lazarus Powell	Tubmans Resolution	93	FJH:5:425	Deed

September 21, 1863: William W. Mace and his wife Ennie Mace, both of Dorchester County in the State of Maryland, sell for $1,400.00 to Lazarus Powell, also of Dorchester County, 93 acres of the parcel called Tubmans Resolution, located in Dorchester County, and contained within the following metes and bounds: Beginning at a stone marked RT at or near Black Water Bridge on the edge of the County Road, and from thence running North sixteen and a half degrees East twenty six perches, thence North nine and a half degrees East sixty eight perches, thence North twenty three and a half degrees East twenty perches, thence North fifty six and a quarter degrees East thirty three perches, thence North sixty four degrees West one hundred eighteen and a quarter perches, thence South forty degrees West ninety perches, thence South thirty degrees West forty eight perches, thence South one half degree West twenty six perches to the Black Water River, thence running and binding with Black Water River to the place of beginning, containing ninety three acres, being a part of the land conveyed by John E. Applegate and his wife Ann to the said William W. Mace and his wife Annie by deed dated November 20, 1856. Witnesses: John H. Sard, William Jester, and Justice of the Peace Hugh Maguire.

Grantor	Grantee	Parcel	Acreage	Lib:No:Fol	Type
Samuel Pattison & wife Ann	John W. Mace	Vickerses Beginning & The Grove	28	FJH:5:668	Deed

October 22, 1864: John W. Mace of Dorchester County in the State of Marylans buys for $700.00 from Samuel Pattison and his wife Ann Pattison, also of Dorchester County, 28 acres of those parcels lying in Dorchester County and called Vickerses Beginning and The Grove, being the same parts and parcels conveyed to Mark Cook by Isaiah Brickill by deed dated February 7, 1839, and recorded in Liber ER No.17, Folio 158. Witness: Justice of the Peace Thomas R. Skinner.

Grantor	Grantee	Parcel	Acreage	Lib:No:Fol	Type
John C. Stapleford	William W. Mace	Back Range, [not named] Cow Pasture & Rod Island	12, 213.5, 18 & 45÷2 - 15	FJH:5:672	Deed

November 14, 1864: William W. Mace of Dorchester County in the State of Maryland buys for $2,000.00 from John C. Stapleford of Baltimore City 260 acres in several tracts, among them one called Back Range (excepting fifteen acres deeded to Ezekiel Keene) that is contained within the following metes and bounds: Beginning for the first part at a bounded white oak standing on the East side of Black Water River and on the West side of the Main Road that leads down to Ezekiel Keene's dwelling plantation, it also being the original bounder of a tract called Partridge Regulation and also the original bounder of a tract called Adventure, and from thence running North seventy two degrees East twenty one perches, then North West thirty nine perches, then South sixty six degrees West forty seven perches, then South eleven perches, then South East thirty perches, and then by a straight line to the beginning, containing twelve acres. For the second part: Beginning at the end of a line drawn North seventy five degrees East thirty nine perches distance from the first mentioned bounded white oak, where stands a bounded cedar post which is set down in the South West line of a tract called Addition, and thence running North seventy five degrees East one hundred and thirty two perches, then South one hundred and seventy five perches, then South East thirteen perches, then North East nineteen perches, then North eighty four perches, then North East eighty two perches, then South forty seven degrees East thirty seven perches, then South eighty six degrees East one hundred and ten perches, then North four degrees East twelve perches, then North eighty six degrees West ninety eight perches, then North forty seven degrees West seventy perches, then North twenty six perches, then South seventy five degrees East five perches, then South forty seven degrees East thirty three perches, then North nine degrees East one hundred and seventy perches, then South sixty two degrees West one hundred and twenty perches, then South eighty five degrees West twenty six perches, then South sixty two degrees West one hundred and fifteen perches, then South East fifty four perches, then by a straight line to the first beginning, containing two hundred and thirteen and a half acres. Two more tracts: Cow Pasture, with eighteen acres; and half of a tract called Rod Island, the whole forty five acres in fee simple. Witnesses: Justice of the Peace Edward R. Christopher and James Burnett.

Grantor	Grantee	Parcel	Acreage	Lib:No:Fol	Type
John Bunting & wife Rose Ann	Hooper C. Hicks	Sweet Prospect	398	WJ:2:330	Deed

April 17, 1865: Hooper Columbus Hicks of Dorchester County in the State of Maryland buys for $5,000.00 from John Bunting and his wife Rose Ann Bunting, both of the City and County of Baltimore, the tract called Sweet Prospect, lying in Dorchester County and containing three hundred and ninety eight acres as described in Liber ER No.5, Folio72 upon the petition of William Colsten against James Colsten, Thomas Colsten, Eliza Colsten and Samuel Colsten to divide the real estate of Thomas Colsten, the said tracts having been devised by James Colsten to Samuel Colsten and by Samuel Colsten devised to Eliza Williams, and by Eliza Williams devised to Rose Ann Colsten, now Rose Ann Bunting wife of the aforesaid John Bunting. Witnesses: Justices of the Peace J. Hanson Bell and William Eackellburger.

Grantor	Grantee	Parcel	Acreage	Lib:No:Fol	Type
John C. Staplefort	William W. Mace	Browns Folly	56+	FJH:6:323	Deed

March 7, 1866: William W. Mace of Dorchester County in the State of Maryland buys for $225.00 from John C. Staplefort, also of Dorchester County, 56 acres of the tract called Brown's Folly, lying in Dorchester County (except what is to the East of the County Road leading from the Little Black Water Bridge to Cambridge) which is contained within the following metes and bounds: Beginning at a marked gum standing on the West side of a marsh and near the boundary of a tract called Stephens Gift, and from thence running West one hundred and eighty five perches to a post at the end of said line, then North ten perches to intersect the [second] line of Stephen's Gift, thence North eighty six degrees West sixteen perches, then South seventy six perches, thence East one hundred and twenty one perches, thence South fifteen perches, then East three perches, thence North ten degrees East seventy perches, then by a straight line to the place of beginning, containing fifty six acres and thirty two perches. Witnesses: Lazarus Powell and Justice of the Peace Hugh Maguire.

Grantor	Grantee	Parcel	Acreage	Lib:No:Fol	Type
John W. Mace & wife Kate W. and Zachariah W. Linthicum and wife Sarah E.	William J. Richardson	Smith Land	36.5	FJH:6:361	Deed

April 9, 1866: John W. Mace and his wife Kate W. Mace and Zachariah W. Linthicum and wife Sarah E. Linthicum, all of Dorchester County in the State of Maryland, sell for $315.62 to William T. Richardson all that tract called Smith Land that is contained within the following metes and bounds: Beginning at a post and stone set down near the middle of the original tract, and from thence running North seven degrees East sixty four perches, thence South eighty three degrees East eighty three perches, thence South eight degrees East sixty six perches, thence North eighty three degrees West ninety seven and a half perches to the beginning, containing thirty six and a half acres. Witnesses: John E. Christopher and Justice of the Peace Hugh Maguire.

Grantor	Grantee	Parcel	Acreage	Lib:No:Fol	Type
John W. Mace & wife Kate W. and Zachariah W. Linthicum and wife Sarah E.	James M. Richardson	Keenes Inclosure	50	FJH:5:362	Deed

April 9, 1866: John W. Mace and his wife Kate W. Mace and Zachariah W. Linthicum and wife Sarah E. Linthicum, all of Dorchester County in the State of Maryland sell for $390.15 to James M. Richardson 50 acres of the part of the tract called Keene's Inclosure, which was bought by John R. Martin from the estate of Joseph Stewart, and which is contained within the following metes and bounds: Beginning at the end of thirty five and a half perches distance on the sixth line of the original tract, and from thence running and binding with said line South[twenty] degrees West one hundred and seventy three perches to the end thereof, thence North fifty six degrees West seventy one perches, thence North [twenty] degrees East fifty nine perches, thence South fifty six East thirty five and a half perches, thence North [twenty] degrees East one hundred and fourteen and a half perches, and from thence to the place of beginning, containing fifty acres. Witnesses: John E. Christopher and Justice of the Peace Hugh Maguire.

Grantor	Grantee	Parcel	Acreage	Lib:No:Fol	Type
John W. Mace & wife Kate W. and Zachariah W. Linthicum and wife Sarah E.	Levin W. Mobrary	Ennalls Outrange	37	FJH:7:26	Deed

April 23, 1866: John W. Mace and his wife Kate W. Mace and Zachariah W. Linthicum and his wife Sarah E. Linthicum, all of Dorchester County in the State of Maryland, sell [for an undisclosed amount] plus $5.00 to Levin W. Mobray, also of Dorchester County, the 37 acre tract which was purchased July 13, 1857, by John W. Mace and Zachariah W. Linthicum from James A. Stewart and wife, called Ennalls Outrange, lying on the Stone-Bounder Road in Election District No.7 of Dorchester County, [originally] containing seventy one acres and recorded in Liber FJH No.4, Folio 57, and of which Zachariah W. Linthicum subsequently sold to Samuel Eaves, freed slave of Dorchester County, all of that part of Ennalls Outrange that had not been conveyed by us to John E. Stevens by deed recorded in Liber FJH No.4, Folio 228, and to Eleanor Adkins by deed recorded in Liber FJH No.4, Folio 477. Samuel Eaves failed to comply with the terms of the bill obligatory for his purchase, the tract reverting to Zachariah W. Linthicum, et al., and since being auctioned by Sheriff's sale in the case between Zachariah W. Linthicum and James Fooks vs. Samuel Eaves. Witnesses: William H. Willis for J.W. Mace & wife, P.W. Woolford and A.V. Woolford, and Justice of the Peace Hugh Maguire.

Grantor	Grantee	Parcel	Acreage	Lib:No:Fol	Type

Grantor	Grantee	Parcel	Acreage	Lib:No:Fol	Type