Date
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Parcel
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1744/03/12
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Grantor
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Grantee
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Parcel
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Acreage
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Lib:No:Fol
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Type
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John Marsy
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Thomas Aydelott
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Spring Bank
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100
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A:308
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Deed
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March 12, 1744: John Marsy
(Massey ?), planter of Worcester County in the Province of Maryland,
sells for £110 a 100 acre portion of his two thirds interest in the 500
acre tract called Spring Bank (which he purchased from Samuel Taylor,
George Dawson and William Dawson, all of Prince George's County)
lying in Worcester County on the seaboard side and South of the Indian
River to Thomas Aydelott also planter of Worcester County. The tract
that is the subject of this indenture was once the home of Moses Vorden
and is enclosed by the following metes and bounds: Beginning at a
marked white oak standing on the Est side line of the South side of the
Gum Swamp, thence South as for a distance as will include one hundred
acres in the width of the said tract, thence West across the said
tract, thence North the same distance of the South line, thence East to
the first bounder. Witnesses: Justices of the Peace Samuel Hopkins and
John].Miller; acting for the Crown: R. King,
Junior, County Clerk..
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1740/05/01
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Grantor
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Grantee
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Parcel
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Acreage
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Lib:No:Fol
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Type
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John Hall
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John Massey,
Junior |
North Petherton
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500
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A:487
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Deed
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May 1, 1740: John Massey of
Worcester County in the Province of Maryland buys for £5 from John Hall
the remaining 250 acre portion of the 500 acre tract granted to Matthew
Scarbrough of Somerset County on July 6, 1687, renewed on May 10, 1688,
and called North Petherton, lying on the seaboard side of Somerset
County and enclosed within the following metes and bounds: Beginning at
the South East side of a salt water pond about three miles to the
Southward of Cedar Neck, thence South sixty seven degrees Easterly
forty poles (perches) to the Eastern sea, thence along and with the
same South sixty degrees Westerly three hundred ninety five poles,
thence North fifty one degrees Westerly two hundred and seventy poles,
thence North three degrees Westerly three hundred and fifty two poles,
and from thence with a tight line drawn to the first bounder,
containing five hundred acres. Matthew Scarbrough sold this land to
Roger Thomas, who bequeathed it to William Hall and John Stockely, and
William Hall sold to John Massy (Massey) Senior, deceased, two hundred
and fifty acres of North Petherton, but the land not being rightly
divided, John Hall now sells the entirety of North Petherton to John
Massey, Junior, son of the late John Massey, Senior, for the additional
sum of £5. Witnesses: Justices of the Peace John Miller and Josaeph
Miller; acting for the crown: Thomas Gilliss and R. King, Junior,
County Clerk.
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1747/06/20
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Grantor
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Grantee
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Parcel
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Acreage
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Lib:No:Fol
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Type
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John Evans
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John Marsey
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North Petherton
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250
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A:513
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Division
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June 20, 1747: John Marsey
(Massey ?) and John Evans of Worcester
County in the Province of Maryland divide their
half of the 500 acre tract called North Petherton according to the
following line: Beginning at a marked red oak standing on the West side
line of the said tract of land belonging to the heirs of Athins Marsey
called Athins Lott, thence with a line drawn South eighty six degrees
East to the sea, the said Marsey part on the North side of the said
line and the said Evans part on the South side of the same.
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1747/07/04
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Grantor
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Grantee
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Parcel
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Acreage
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Lib:No:Fol
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Type
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John Marsey, Senior & John Marsey, Junior
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Andrew Gray
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North Petherton
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250
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A:516
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Deed
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July 4, 1747: John Marsey (Massey ?), Senior and John Marsey,
Junior, son and grandson of the late John Marsey of Worcester County in
the Province of Maryland, sell for £95 to Andrew Gray, bricklayer, all
their right and title to a 250 acre portion of North Petherton, which
was granted to Matthew Scarbrough of
Somerset County on July 6, 1687, renewed on May 10, 1688, and lying on
the seaboard side of Somerset County and enclosed within the following
metes and bounds: Beginning at the
South East side of a salt water pond about three miles to the Southward
of Cedar Neck, thence South sixty seven degrees Easterly forty poles
(perches) to the Eastern sea, thence along and with the same South
sixty degrees Westerly three hundred ninety five poles, thence North
fifty one degrees Westerly two hundred and seventy poles, thence North
three degrees Westerly three hundred and fifty two poles, and from
thence with a tight line drawn to the first bounder, containing five
hundred acres. Matthew Scarbrough and his then wife Hannah sold North
Petherton to Roger Thomas for 7,500 pounds of tobacco, who then willed
the land to William Hall and Roger Stockly; William Hall then sold his
half of North Petherton to John Marsey (Massey ?) who willed that half
to his sons John Marsey and Athins Marsey, who divided the 250 acres
between them. In the present sale, Jacob Gray put up the £95 purchase
price for his son and heir Andrew Gray for the following portion of North
Petherton: Beginning at the first bounder of North Petherton, thence
South sixty seven degrees east forty poles (perches), thence North
fifty one degrees to the Eastern sea, thence South six degrees West one
hundred and thirty five poles, thence North eighty six degrees West by
a line of marked trees to the marsh, thence North twenty two degrees
East to a salt pond, thence with a tight line to the first bounder,
containing two hundred [and fifty] acres. Witnesses: Justices of the
Peace John Miller and Joseph Miller; acting for the Crown: Thomas
Gillis; R. King, Junior is Worcester County Clerk.
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1747/07/04
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Grantor
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Grantee
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Parcel
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Acreage
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Lib:No:Fol
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Type
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John Massey
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Jacob Gray
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Dareys Quarter
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100
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A:518
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Deed
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July 4, 1747: John Massey (Marsey
?) of Worcester County in the Province of Maryland sells for £95 to
Jacob Gray, also of Worcester County, the tract of land called Dareys
Quarter lying in Somerset County (now Worcester County) on the seaboard
side that was granted unto John Marssey, on July 10,
1725, which lies within the following metes and bounds:
Beginning at a marked Spanish oak standing on the end of a ridge of
land near a tract formerly laid out for Matthew Scarbrough called North
Petherton, and from thence West twenty eight poles (perches) thence
South sixty five degrees West twenty eight poles, thence South thirty
degrees West twenty poles,, thence West forty six poles, thence South
seventy five degrees West thirty six poles, thence South thirty five
degrees East twenty poles, thence South seventy [degrees] West fifty
poles, thence North one hundred and thirty five poles, thence East one
hundred and eighty six poles, and from thence with a straight line to
the first bounds, containing one hundred acres. Witnesses: Justices of the
Peace John Miller and Joseph Miller; acting for the Crown: Thomas
Gillis; R. King, Junior is Worcester County Clerk. |
1750/06/01
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Grantor
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Grantee
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Parcel
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Acreage
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Lib:No:Fol
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Type
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John Fassitt
and wife Mary
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Alexander Marsey |
Nathans Chance
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100
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B:257
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Deed
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June 1, 1750: Alexander Marsey
(Massey ?) of Worcester County in the Province of Maryland buys for £30
from John Fassitt, planter, also of Worcester County, the 100 acre
Southern portion of the 300 acre tract called Nathan's Chance, lying in
Worcester County on the sea side. Witnesses: Justices of the Peace John
Millerand John Purnell; acting for the
Crown: Thomas Gillis; R. King, Junior is Worcester County Clerk. |
1762/05/01
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Grantor
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Grantee
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Parcel
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Acreage
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Lib:No:Fol
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Type
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Johnson Massey and wife Sarah
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Nehemiah Noch
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Carmon
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18
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E:309
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Deed
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May 1, 1762: Johnson Massey of
Worcester County in the Province of Maryland sells for £18 5/- to
Nehemiah Noch the entirety of the tract called Carmon which was willed
by his grandfather Alexander Massey to his father William Massey and
thence to him, the said Johnson Massey, and which is contained within
the following metes and bounds: Beginning at a marked white oak
standing on the Easternmost side of Hearron Creek Road about thirty
strides running due East to the head line, and thence down the said
line to a marked red oak corner tree, thence with a line running West
to a marked tree or bounder, binding on Hearron Creek Road within the
same distance as the first contains and with a straight line up to the
first bounder called Purchis, containing eighteen acres. Witnesses:
Justices of the Peace Joseph Mitchell and John Evans; acting for the
Crown: Joseph Allen; H. Johnson is Worcester County clerk.
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1762/10/12
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Grantor
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Grantee
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Parcel
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Acreage
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Lib:No:Fol
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Type
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Levi West
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Joseph Massey
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Good Success, Long Acre, and Wests Recovery
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74
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E:384
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Deed
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October 12, 1762: Joseph Massey
of Worcester County in the Province of Maryland buys for £83 5/- from
Levi West, also of Worcester County, a 74 acre parcel that comprises
parts of three Worcester County tracts called Good Success, Long Acre,
and Wests Recovery, that were left to Levi West by his father's Last
Will and testament and which are contained within the following metes
and bounds: Beginning at a marked red oak standing on the side of a
hill called Woolfpit Hill near Elijah West's plantation, thence South
seventy poles (perches), thence East one hundred and six poles, thence
North one hundred and seventy one poles, thence West eleven poles,
thence South five degrees West thirty six poles, thence South fifty
four degrees West six poles, thence West fourteen poles, thence South
seventy two degrees West twenty two poles, thence South forty four
degrees West twenty poles, thence South twenty three degrees East
twenty poles, and thence to the first bounder, containing seventy one
acres; and the other three acres lying in the bottom of a little neck
in John West's pasture, the whole containing seventy four acres, lying
in Worcester County on the Indian River. Witnesses: Justices of the
Peace Joseph Dirickson and John Dagworthy; acting for the Crown; Joseph
Allen; H. Johnson is Worcester County clerk.
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1763/12/06
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Grantor
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Grantee
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Parcel
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Acreage
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Lib:No:Fol
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Type
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Levi West
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Joseph Massey
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Long Acre
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4
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F:46
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Deed
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December 6, 1763: Joseph Massey of Worcester County in the
Province of Maryland buys for £4 from Levi West, also of Worcester
County, a 4 acre parcel, part of a Worcester County tract called Long
Acre, out of the South End of Long Acre, excluding of what has been
made over to the said Joseph Massey out of the tract called Long
Acre. Witnesses: Justices of the Peace Thomas Handy and William
Ellegood; acting for the crown: Joseph Allen; H. Johson is Worcester
County clerk.
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1763/03/02
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Grantor
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Grantee
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Parcel
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Acreage
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Lib:No:Fol
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Type
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McClammy Jones
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Johnson Massey
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Spittlefield
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143
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F:184
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Deed
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March 2, 1763: Johnson Massey of
Worcester County in the Province of Maryland buys for £150 from
McClammy Jones, planter, also of Worcester County, a 143 acre portion
of the tract called Spittlefield, lying in Worcester County back in the
woods from the sea side in a place called Queponco, and which is
enclosed within the following metes and bounds: Beginning at a marked
red oak being the first bounder of said Spittlefield, thence running
South three degrees East one hundred and forty poles (perches), thence
South fifty seven degrees West two hundred and six poles, thence North
six degrees East eighty three poles, thence North eighty nine degrees
East thirty six poles, thence North seven degrees east eighty five
poles, thence North forty nine degrees West six poles, thence North
thirteen degrees West fifty poles,and from thence with a straight line
to the first bounder, containing one hundred and forty three acres.
Witnesses: Justices of the Peace John Scarborough and John Selby;
acting for the Crown: Joseph Allen; H. Johnson is Worcester County
clerk.
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1765/04/16
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Grantor
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Grantee
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Parcel
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Acreage
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Lib:No:Fol
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Type
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McClamey Jones and wife Martha
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Alexander Massey
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Carmel
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128
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F:326
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Deed
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April 16, 1765: Alexander Massey
of Worcester County in the Province of Maryland buys for £221 from
McClamey (McClammy) Jones, also of Worcester County, the 128 acre
parcel called Carmel that McClamey Jones obtained from Johnson Massey
(originally part of a two thousand acre tract granted to William
Stevens on June 11, 1769 in Sinepuxon) that had come into Johnson
Massey's ownership. Witnesses: Justices of the Peace J. Dennis, Junior,
and John Evans; acting for the Crown: Joseph Allen; H. Johnson is
Worcester County clerk.
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1763/03/26
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Grantor
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Grantee
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Parcel
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Acreage
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Lib:No:Fol
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Type
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John Massey
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Joseph Massey
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Spring Bank
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108
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F:361
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Deed
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March 26, 1763: John Massey of
Worcester County in the Province of Maryland sells for £10 to his
brother Joseph Massey, also of Worcester County, a 108 acre part of the
500 acre tract called Spring Bank, lying in Worcester County and near
the Indian River, which original tract was granted to Robert Doyn in
1688, and which is contained within the following metes and bounds:
Beginning at a marked red oak standing between Joseph Massey's two
plantations and on the West side line of the aforesaid larger portion
of the tract called Spring Bank, thence North one hundred and eighty
six and a half poles (perches), thence East eighty six poles across the
said tract, thence South one hundred and eighty six and a half poles,
and thence West to the Town Road, thence South with the said road one
hundred and sixty poles, thence West six poles, and from thence with a
straight line to the first bounder, containing one hundred and eight
acres. Witnesses: Justices of the Peace Joseph Dirickson and John
Dagworthy; acting for the Crown: Joseph
Allen; H. Johnson is Worcester County clerk. |
1763/04/16
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Grantor
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Grantee
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Parcel
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Acreage
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Lib:No:Fol
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Type
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Joseph Massey
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John Massey
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Second Choice
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100÷4
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F:363
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Deed
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April 16, 1763: Joseph Massey of
Worcester County in the Province of Maryland sells for £21 to his
brother John Massey, all his right to the 100 acre tract called Second
Choice lying in Worcester County near the sea side, which was devised
in one fourth part to Joseph Massey in the Last Will and Testament of
John Massey, deceased, in 1743. Witnesses:
Justices of the Peace Joseph Dirickson and John Dagworthy; acting for the Crown: Joseph Allen; H.
Johnson is Worcester County clerk. |
1764/08/01
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Grantor
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Grantee
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Parcel
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Acreage
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Lib:No:Fol
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Type
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Alexander Massey and wife Charity
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John Fassitt, Senior
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Nathens Chance
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100
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F:452
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Deed
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August 1, 1764: Alexander Marsy
(Massey ?) of Worcester County in the Province of Maryland sells for
£50 to John Fassitt, Senior, also of Worcester County, a 100 acre
portion of the 300 acre tract called Nathen's Chance, lying in
Worcester County on the sea, which was patented to John Fassitt,
Senior. Witnesses: Justices of the Peace Joseph Mitchell and John Evans; acting for the Crown: Joseph Allen; H.
Johnson is Worcester County clerk. |
1767/10/22
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Grantor
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Grantee
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Parcel
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Acreage
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Lib:No:Fol
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Type
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William Riley Evans & wife Hesiah
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John Massey
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North Perthernton
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112
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G:216
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Deed
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October 22, 1767: John Massey of
Worcester County in the Province of Maryland buys for £65 from William
Riley Evans, also of Worcester County, a 112 acre portion of the tract
called North Perthernton (Petherton) that is contained within the
following metes and bounds: Beginning at the South East end of the Salt
Pond, it being the first bounder of the aforesaid tract, thence running
South sixty seven degrees east forty poles (perches) to the sea side,
thence with the sea seventy six poles, thence North seventy five
degrees West one hundred and seventy six poles with a line of marked
saplings to a marked mulberry tree standing in an old field, thence the
same course across the said tract of land, thence with the course of
the same tract to the first bounder, containing one hundred and twelve
acres. Witnesses: Justices of the
Peace Joseph Mitchell and John Evans; acting for
the Crown: Joseph Allen; H. Johnson is Worcester County clerk. |
1769/08/04
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Grantor
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Grantee
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Parcel
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Acreage
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Lib:No:Fol
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Type
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John Massey
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Elijah Richards
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Spring Bank
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80
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H:72
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Deed
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August 4, 1769: John Massey of
Worcester County in the Province of Maryland sells for £55 to Elijah
Richards, also of Worcester County, all that part of the parcel called
Spring Bank that lies to the Southward of Heinman Wharton's hundred
acres that he has purchased out of the aforesaid tract, it laid out for
eighty acres, it being the head of the tract called Spring Bank joining
to Thomas Harney's land and lying in Worcester County. Witnesses:
Justices of the Peace Jonathan Vaughan and William Holland; H. Johnson
is Worcester County clerk.
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1770/03/07
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Grantor
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Grantee
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Parcel
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Acreage
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Lib:No:Fol
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Type
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John Massey
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William Horsey
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Goods and chattels
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[none]
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H:214
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Bill of Sale
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March 7, 1770: John Marcy
(Massey) of Worcester County in the Province of Maryland sells for £15
to William Horsey, all the following goods and chattels; one white
mare, about five years old, one sow and thirteen shoats, one desk, one
chest of drawers, one dozen new pewter plates, and one small cow hide.
Witnesses: Justice of the Peace G. Farrington and Andrew Speer; H.
Johnson is Worcester County clerk.
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1770/02/24
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Grantor
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Grantee
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Parcel
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Acreage
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Lib:No:Fol
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Type
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John Turvill Gault
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John Massey
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North Perthernton
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50
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H:226
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Deed
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February 24, 1770: John Massey of
Worcester County in the Province of Maryland buys for £30 from John
Turvill Gault, also of Worcester County, a 50 acre portion of the
larger tract called North Perthernton containing 500 acres that was
formerly granted unto Matthew Scarborough (Scarbrough), the said fifty
acres now John Turvell Gault's to sell to John Massey, which lies in
Worcester County. Witnesses: Justices of the Peace Cor. Kollock and
William Holland; H. Johnson is Worcester County clerk.
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1770/02/24
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Grantor
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Grantee
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Parcel
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Acreage
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Lib:No:Fol
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Type
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Joseph Evans
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Daniel Massey
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Josephs Lott & Hunting Quarter
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11 & 100
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H:228
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Deed
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February 24, 1770: Daniel Massey
of Worcester County in the Province of Maryland buys for £125 from
Joseph Evans, also of Worcester County, an 11 acre parcel called
Joseph's Lott and a 100 acre portion of the tract called Larchas
(a.k.a. Hunting Quarter) that was once patented unto John Stockley,
beginning for the 100 acres at a marked stake artificially set up in
the sixth line of the aforesaid tract at the end of William Robinson's
one hundred acres that he has conveyed out of the aforesaid tract,
thence running South thirty six degrees West one hundred and seventy
five poles (perches), thence South forty nine and a half degrees East
ninety two poles, thence North thirty six degrees East one hundred and
seventy five poles, and from thence across the tract to the first
beginning, containing one hundred acres, the two tracts of land
containing in the whole one hundred and eleven acres, lying in
Worcester County. Witnesses: Justices
of the Peace Cor. Kollock and William Holland; H. Johnson is Worcester
County clerk. |
1771/12/02
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Grantor
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Grantee
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Parcel
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Acreage
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Lib:No:Fol
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Type
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| Powell Pattey
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John Massey
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Silver Street & Penney Street
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53 & 41
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H:631
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Deed
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December 2, 1771: John Massey
(son of Alexander Massey) of Worcester County in the Province of
Maryland buys for £45 from Powell Pattey, also of Worcester County, all
that tract of land called Silver Street and Penney Street in two parts,
the bounds of the second part being: Beginning at the end of the second
line and the beginning of the third line of the original tract called
Lon Acre, thence running North sixty five degrees West twenty eight
poles (perches), thence South forty one degrees West sixty poles,
thence North sixty three degrees West sixty six poles, thence North
twenty nine degrees East fifty six poles, thence North sixty five
degrees West forty two poles, thence North forty five degrees East
eight pole, thence South eighty four degrees East one hundred and sixty
four poles, thence South fifty degrees West twelve poles, thence South
forty three poles, and thence with a right line drawn to the first
beginning, containing fifty three acres.The second part is bounded as
follows: Beginning at the end of the first and the beginning of the
second courses of a tract called Pleasant Lott, now in the possession
of John Massey, lying near the Head of Synapuxon Rock, and thence
running South eighty five degrees West twenty poles, thence North sixty
five degrees West twenty eight poles, thence South forty one degrees
West sixty poles, thence North sixty three degrees West sixty six
poles, thence North twenty nine degrees East fifty five poles, thence
North sixty five degrees West six poles, thence East half a point
Southerly one hundred and twenty three poles, thence with a straight
line to the first beginning, containing forty one acres. Witnesses: J.
Dennis and Joseph Mitchell; acting for the Crown: Parker Selby; H.
Johnson is Worcester County clerk.
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1772/01/13
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Grantor
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Grantee
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Parcel
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Acreage
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Lib:No:Fol
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Type
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William Stephens
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John Massey
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Eagles Choice
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75
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I:2
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Deed
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January 13, 1772: John Massey
(son of Alexander Massey), planter of Worcester County in the Province
of Maryland, buys for £37 from William Stephens (Stevens), also planter
of Worcester County, all that tract called Eagle's Choice, lying in
Worcester County back in the woods near a stream called Herrin (Hearon)
Creek within the following metes and bounds: Beginning at a marked
beech [tree], and thence running [North or South ?] seventeen degrees
East thirty one poles (perches), thence fifty eight degrees West one
hundred poles, thence North [illegible] three degrees West fifty five
poles, and from thence with a right line to the first bounder,
containing seventy five acres. Witnesses: Milby Atkinson and Cl.
Humpbells; acting for the Crown: Parker Selby;H. Johnson is Worcester
County clerk. [Note:this liber's first two pages are heavily taped and
illegible in part - GL,III, ed.]
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1785/10/04
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Grantor
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Grantee
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Parcel
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Acreage
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Lib:No:Fol
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Type
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| Powell Pattey,
Senior, & wife Rachel |
John Massey
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Holley Grove
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50
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L:211
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Deed
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October 4, 1785: John Massey of
Worcester County in the State of Maryland buys for £125 from Powell
Paty (Pattey), also of Worcester County, a part of the tract called
Holley Grove that is contained within the following metes and bounds:
Beginning at a marked red oak, it being the first bounder of the
aforesaid tract called Holley Grove, thence running South eighty five
degrees East thirty four poles (perches), thence South one hundred and
eighty three poles, thence South seventy six degrees East twenty poles,
thence South seventy one degrees West sixty poles, thence North thirty
nine degrees West six poles, thence with a right line to the first
bounder, containing fifty acres. Witnesses: Justices of the Peace John
Portly and William Stevenson; James R. Morris is Worcester County clerk.
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1795/09/25
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Grantor
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Grantee
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Parcel
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Acreage
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Lib:No:Fol
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Type
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John Massey
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John Jones
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Goods & chattels
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[none]
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Q:335
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Bill of Sale
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September 25, 1795: John Massey
of Johnson of Worcester County in the State of Maryland sells for £50
to John Jones the following goods and chattels: three feather beds,
bedding & furniture, two chests, one mare, eight hogs, crop on the
ground & wheat is the name and for all the rest of my Goods &
Chattels be it of what kind or sort it may at the sealing hereof.
Witnesses: Major Evans & Samuel Holland and Justice of the Peace
Fra. Jin. Henry; John C. Handy is Worcester County clerk.
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1797/01/06
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Grantor
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Grantee
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Parcel
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Acreage
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Lib:No:Fol
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Type
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John Massey
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[none]
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slaves Jinny and Esther
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[none]
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R:428
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Certificate
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January 6, 1797: John Massey
lists the slaves which he brought into Worcester County in the State of
Maryland from Accomack County in the State of Virginia on December 24,
1796, who have been inhabitants of Accomack County more than three
years: the woman Jinny, about twenty
three years old, and the girl Esther, about sixteen months old. John
Massey had to swear before Naval Officer William Selby that it was his
intention to keep the listed slaves in service to himself with no
intention of selling or trading them; recorded by John C. Handy,
Worcester County clerk.
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1797/03/04
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Grantor
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Grantee
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Parcel
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Acreage
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Lib:No:Fol
|
Type
|
| John Massey & wife Anne |
William Aydelott |
Refuge
|
202
|
R:501 |
Division
|
March 4, 1797: John Massey and
his wife Anne Massey, both of Worcester County in the State of
Maryland, form an agreement with William Aydelott to set the division
line between their shares of lands inherited from James Aydelott,
deceased, whose Last Will and Testament left the lands lying in
Worcester County near the head of Swansicott Creek to James Aydelott,
who subsequently died intestate, thereby placing the affected lands in
the equally shared ownership of John Massey and his wife Anne, William
Aydelott, and Benjamin Aydelott. However, Bejamin Aydelott, the
younger, has sold his part of the said lands to William Aydelott,
leaving John Massey and his wife Anne and William Aydelott to make the
present division: Beginning at a fallen-down oak on the North side of a
small branch, being a corner tree of Richard Rowley's land, and thence
running South fifty two degrees West two hundred and seventy one
perches by a line of a marked tree to a sassafras post, thence South
one and a half degrees East thirty two perches to a sassafras post
standing in the corner of a tract of land called Refuge, containing two
hundred and two acres. Witnesses: Justice of the Peace John Holland and
Peter Spencer Corbin; John C. Handy is Worcester County clerk. [This
202 acres is William Aydelott's - GL,III, ed.]
|
1797/03/04
|
|
Grantor
|
Grantee
|
Parcel
|
Acreage
|
Lib:No:Fol
|
Type
|
| William Aydelott & Benjamin Aydelott
|
John Massey & wife Anne |
Refuge
|
130
|
R:504
|
Division
|
March 4, 1797: William Aydelott
of Worcester County in the State of Maryland, forms an agreement with John Massey and
his wife Anne Massey, also of Worcester County,
to set the division line between their shares of lands inherited from
James Aydelott, deceased, whose Last Will and Testament left the lands
lying in Worcester County near the head of Swansicott Creek to James
Aydelott, who subsequently died intestate, thereby placing the affected
lands in the equally shared ownership of John Massey and his wife Anne,
William Aydelott, and Benjamin Aydelott. However, Bejamin Aydelott, the
younger, has sold his part of the said lands to William Aydelott,
leaving John Massey and his wife Anne and William Aydelott to make the
present division:Beginning at a fallen white oak by the North side of a
small branch, being the corner tree of Richard Rowley's land, and
running from thence South fifty two degrees West twenty seven perches
to a marked pine, thence South eighty three degrees West two hundred
and twenty one perches by a line of marked trees to a sassafras post,
thence South one and a half degrees East thirty two perches by a line
of marked trees to a sassafras post at the corner of a tract of land
called Refuge, containing one hundred and thirty acres of land.
Witnesses: Justices of the Peace John Holland and Peter Spencer Corbin;
recorded by John C. Handy, Worcester County clerk. [This 130 acres is
the Massey's- GL,III, ed.]
|
1797/06/12
|
|
Grantor
|
Grantee
|
Parcel
|
Acreage
|
Lib:No:Fol
|
Type
|
Priscilla Massey
|
John Fassitt
|
Goods & chattels
|
[none]
|
R:586
|
Bill of Sale
|
June 12, 1797: Priscilla Massey
of Worcester County in the State of Maryland sells for £10 to John
Fassitt, son of John Fassitt, the following goods and chattels: Four
head of cattle, consisting of one cow and calf, cow & yearling, and
one bull. Witness: John P. Mitchell; recorded by John C. Handy,
Worcester County clerk.
|
1798/02/03
|
|
Grantor
|
Grantee
|
Parcel
|
Acreage
|
Lib:No:Fol
|
Type
|
William Lister & wife Jemimah
|
John Adkin Massey
|
Unity
|
8
|
S:355
|
Deed
|
February 3, 1798: John Adkin
Massey of Worcester County in the State of Maryland buys for £40 from
William Lister, also of Worcester County, all that portion of the tract
called Unity that is contained within the following metes and bounds:
Beginning at the end of the first course of William Darby's part of the
aforesaid tract called Unity, and thence running South seventeen and
three quarter degrees West twenty five poles (perches), thence South
eighty two degrees East fifty four poles to intersect the first line of
Unity, thence North ten and three quarter degrees East twenty and a
half poles, thence with a right line to the first beginning, containing
eight acres, and situated in Worcester County on the East side of the
County Road leading from Buckingham Meeting House to White's Tavern.
Witnesses: Justices of the Peace John Portly and Josiah Mitchell;
recorded by John C. Handy, Worcester County clerk.
|
1805/03/19
|
|
Grantor
|
Grantee
|
Parcel
|
Acreage
|
Lib:No:Fol
|
Type
|
John Massey
|
William Aydelotte |
slave Jacob
|
[none]
|
U:617
|
Bill of Sale
|
March 19, 1805: John Massey of
Accomack County in the State of Virginia sells for £100 to William
Aydelott of Worcester County in the State of Maryland the slave called
Jacob. Witnesses: James Porter, Shadrack Ridden, and Justice of the
Peace Benjamin Aydelott; recorded by John C.Hardy, Worcester County
clerk.
|
1804/02/04
|
|
Grantor
|
Grantee
|
Parcel
|
Acreage
|
Lib:No:Fol
|
Type
|
| Sally Massey |
slaves Andrew, Rachel, Bli, George, Eazekiel,
& John |
[none]
|
[none]
|
W:97
|
Manumission
|
February 4, 1804: Sally Massey of
Worcester County in the State of Maryland manumits her slaves: Andrew,
born January 1, 1779, to be set free January 1, 1805; Rachel, born
January, 1770, to be set free from the present date; also the boy Bli,
born July, 1790, to be set free July 1, 1815; the boy George, born
April 1794, to be set free April 1, 1819; the boy Ezekiel born
October, 1796, to be set free October 1,1821, the boy called John, born
June, 1800, to be set free June 1, 1825. Witnesses: Justice of the
Peace John Cutters, Levin Donokson, and John Ward; recorded by John C.
Handy, Worcester County clerk. |
1806/10/29
|
|
Grantor
|
Grantee
|
Parcel
|
Acreage
|
Lib:No:Fol
|
Type
|
Jacob White & wife Mary
|
James Massey
|
Small Addition to Mount Ephraim
|
76
|
Y:381
|
Deed
|
October 29, 1806: James Massey of
Worcester County in the State of Maryland buys for $450.00 from Jacob
White and his wife Mary White, also of Worcester County, their divided
portion of the tract called Small Addition to Mount Ephraim which
descended to Mary (Wilson) White from the estate of her father, Doctor
James Wilson, who died intestate, and which is contained within the
following metes and bounds: Beginning at a marked post standing on the
East side of hill, it being the second bounder of Small Addition to
Mount Ephraim, also the first bounder of a tract called High Field, and
thence running North eighty nine and three quarter degrees West thirty
six poles (perches across a small branch, thence North seventy one and
a half degrees West sixteen poles, thence North thirty three degrees
West twenty three poles, thence North fifty seven degrees West sixty
three poles by and with a divisional ditch, thence North forty two
degrees East thirteen and a half poles, thence North sixty seven
degrees East seven poles, thence North fifty seven degrees West ten
poles to the County Road, thence by and with the County Road North
sixty nine and a half degrees East sixteen poles, thence North forty
seven and a quarter degrees East sixty three poles, thence North
seventy degrees East thirty three poles to a branch, thence by and with
the run of the branch by the seven following courses: South forty eight
and a half degrees East seventeen and a half poles, South seven degrees
East twenty seven poles, South one degree East twenty poles, South ten
and a half degrees East twenty four poles, South forty and a quarter
degrees Est seven poles, South thirty one degrees East twenty eight
poles, South twenty five degrees East eighteen poles, thence South West
fourteen poles, thence with a straight line to the beginning,
containing seventy six acres. Doctor Wilson's other child is Jane
Wilson Hurges, wife of Littleton Hurges. Witnesses: Justices of the
Peace Thomas N. Williams and John Davis; John C. Handy is Worcester
County clerk.
|
1806/03/28
|
|
Grantor
|
Grantee
|
Parcel
|
Acreage
|
Lib:No:Fol
|
Type
|
Alexander Franklin
|
Alexander Massey
|
Sawpit Pasture
|
30
|
Y:621
|
Deed
|
March 28, 1806: Alexander Massey
of Worcester County in the State of Maryland buys for £100 from
Alexander Franklin, also of Worcester County, all that parcel of land
described in Alexander Franklin's grandfather Alexander Massey's Will,
it being part of a tract belonging to Alexander Massey, deceased, lying
in Synipuxent Neck and contiguous to another parcel called Carmel,
containing some thirty acres. Witnesses: Justices of the Peace Thomas
Williams and William McGregor; John C. Handy is Worcester County clerk.
|
1808/05/20
|
|
Grantor
|
Grantee
|
Parcel
|
Acreage
|
Lib:No:Fol
|
Type
|
| Isaac Hill |
Alexander Massey
|
slave
|
|
Z:369
|
Bill of Sale
|
May 20, 1808: Alexander Massey,
planter of Worcester County in the State of Maryland buys for $200.00
from Isaac Hill, planter, also of Worcester County, one slave and child
named Siria about eighteen years old. Witness: Justice of the Peace
Thomas N. Williams; John C. Handy is Worcester County clerk.
|
1808/09/03
|
|
Grantor
|
Grantee
|
Parcel
|
Acreage
|
Lib:No:Fol
|
Type
|
Henry Hoskin
|
John A. Massey
|
Quillins Pasture
|
85.25
|
Z:460
|
Lease
|
September 3, 1808: John A. Massey
of Worcester County in the State of Maryland leases for $255.75 from
Henry Hoskin of Belmont County, Ohio, acting for himself and also under
power of attorney for Benjamin Westlake and Ann Westlake his wife and
also for Elizabeth Quillen, also of Belmont County in Ohio, all that
parcel called Quillin's Pasture which contains eighty five and a
quarter acres and which was conveyed from Joseph Hambly to Joseph
Quillin, said term of lease to be ninety nine years, renewable forever.
Witnesses: Justices of the Peace Thomas N. Williams and William Dale;
John C. Handy is Worcester County clerk.
|
1809/08/05
|
|
Grantor
|
Grantee
|
Parcel
|
Acreage
|
Lib:No:Fol
|
Type
|
Daniel Shephard
|
John A.Massey
|
Quillins Pasture
|
[not stated]
|
AA:255
|
Deed
|
August 5, 1809: John A. Massey of
Worcester County in the State of Maryland buys for $28.49 from Daniel
Shephard of Belmont County in the State of Ohio, all that tract called
Winchester or Quillen's (Quillin's) Pasture, formerly belonging to
Benjamin Quillin, lying on the South side of Turvells Creek, being
between William H. Taylor's and a tract belonging to Thomas Purnell.
Witnesses: Justices of the Peace Thomas N. Williams and William Dale;
John C. Handy is Worcester County clerk.
|
1812/05/12
|
|
Grantor
|
Grantee
|
Parcel
|
Acreage
|
Lib:No:Fol
|
Type
|
| Levi Holloway |
Priscilla Massey |
Goods & chattels
|
[none]
|
AC:277
|
Bill of Sale
|
May 12, 1812: Priscilla Massey of
Worcester County in the State of Maryland buys for $300.00 from Levi
Holloway, also of Worcester County, the following goods and chattels:
One yoke of oxen, three cows, and four feather beds, bedsteads, and
furniture. Witness: Lemuel Showell; John C. Handy is Worcester County
clerk.
|
1821/05/05
|
|
Grantor
|
Grantee
|
Parcel
|
Acreage
|
Lib:No:Fol
|
Type
|
| Alexander Massey |
Henry Franklin |
Carmel, Penny Street, Silver Street and
Pleasant Lott |
30
|
AL:480
|
Deed
|
May 5, 1821:
Alexander Massey of Worcester County in the State of Maryland sells for
$1,500.00 to Henry Franklin, Senior, also of Worcester County, all the
lands which John Massey, father of Alexander Massey [passed] to him,
called Carmel, Penny Street, Silver Street and Pleasant Lott.
Witnesses: Justices of the Peace Thomas N. Williams and Schoolfield
Lamberson; John C. Handy is Worcester County clerk. |
1821/05/31
|
|
Grantor
|
Grantee
|
Parcel
|
Acreage
|
Lib:No:Fol
|
Type
|
Priscilla Massey
|
Samuel Massey
|
Goods & chattels
|
[none]
|
AL:546
|
Bill of Sale
|
May 31, 1821: Priscilla Massey of
Worcester County in the State of Maryland sells for 4200.00 to Samuel
Massey, also of Worcester County, the following goods and chattels:
Seven head of cattle, ear-marked swallows fork the right and cross the
left, sixteen head of hogs, the ears marked the same, two beds and
furniture, two bedsteads, two pine chests and linen wheel, two small
iron pots, one loom, stays & burs, and three pork barrels. Witness:
Justice of the Peace William McGregor; John C. Hardy is Worcester
County clerk.
|
1821/11/09
|
|
Grantor
|
Grantee
|
Parcel
|
Acreage
|
Lib:No:Fol
|
Type
|
Purnell Brittingham
|
John A. Massey
|
slave Mary, goods & chattels
|
[none]
|
AM:313
|
Bill of Sale
|
November 9, 1821: John A. Massey
of Worcester County in the State of Maryland buys for $180.00 from
Purnell Brittingham, also of Worcester County, the following: One slave
named Mary, about eighteen years old, and also two beds &
furniture, one cow & calf, one yearling, eight head of hogs, nine
chairs, one cupboard and the cookware therein, two pots, a Dutch oven,
a lot of carpenter tools, and all my nautical instruments whatsoever,
consisting of quadrant, books, charts, seals and dividers. Witnesses:
Justice of the Peace Schoolfield Lamberson and W. Baynum; John C. Hardy
is Worcester
|
1822/05/20
|
|
Grantor
|
Grantee
|
Parcel
|
Acreage
|
Lib:No:Fol
|
Type
|
Priscilla Massey
|
Samuel Massey
|
Goods & chattels
|
[none]
|
AN:252
|
Bill of Sale
|
May 20, 1822: Priscilla Massey of
Worcester County in the State of Maryland sells for $80.00 to Samuel
Massey, also of Worcester County, the following goods and chattels:
three head of broke steers, marked cross the left ear and swallow fork
the right ear, one red cow and calf, cross the left ear and swallow
fork the right ear, one red cow not with calf, cross the left ear,
swallow fork the right ear, two youngsters three years old, cross the
left ear and swallow fork the right ear, one heifer yearling, two years
old, cross the left ear and swallow fork the right ear, one black bull
yearling, cross the left ear and swallow fork the right ear, one sow
and one barrow and sire, six shoats, all of the same mark, cross the
left ear and swallow fork the right ear, two beds and furniture, mats
and covers, two pine chests, one lamb and three slays [sleighs ?] and
two pair of gears, one large iron pot, and one small dish pot, all of
which property is now in my possession. Witnesses: Eli Collims, Sally
Rogers and Justice of the Peace Isaac Collins; John C. Handy is
Worcester County clerk.
|
1828/03/30
|
|
Grantor
|
Grantee
|
Parcel
|
Acreage
|
Lib:No:Fol
|
Type
|
John A. Massey
|
slave Peter
|
[none]
|
[none]
|
AT:421
|
Manumission
|
March 30, 1828: John A. Massey of
Worcester County in the State of Maryland, executor of the estate of
his mother Sarah Massey, late of Worcester County, for the
consideration of $5.00, manumits the slave Peter, age thirty five,
following the Will of Sarah Massey. Witnesses: Justice of the Peace
Schoolfield Lamberson and James Dirickson; John C. Hardy is Worcester
County clerk.
|
1828/05/07
|
|
Grantor
|
Grantee
|
Parcel
|
Acreage
|
Lib:No:Fol
|
Type
|
Kendall Massey
|
slave Luke
|
[none]
|
[none]
|
AT:448
|
Manumission
|
May 7, 1828: Kendall Massey of
Worcester County in the State of Maryland for the consideration of
$1.00 manumits the slave Luke, age thirteen years, as of January 1,
1828. Witnesses: Justice of the Peace Thomas Milbourne and James
Richardson; John C. Hardy is Worcester
County clerk. |
1829/01/13
|
|
Grantor
|
Grantee
|
Parcel
|
Acreage
|
Lib:No:Fol
|
Type
|
John Massey
|
William Franklin Riley
|
Mount Ephraim
|
[not stated]
|
AU:293
|
Deed
|
January 13, 1829: John Massey of
Worcester County in the State of Maryland sells for $85.00 to William
Franklin Riley, also of Worcester County, all that tract called Mount
Ephraim which was devised to John Massey by his father James Massey and
which is contained within the following metes and bounds: Beginning at
the bounder of Mount Ephraim, and thence running with a straight line
North thirty nine degrees West one hundred and forty five poles
(perches) to the County Road leading from New Ark to Snow Hill, which
line was intended as a divisional line between said John Massey and his
brother Ephraim Massey, giving all the North side of said line to the
said John Massey, his youngest son, thence with and bounded by said
County Road until it intersects the lot devised by the said James
Massey to his youngest daughter Ann Massey. This deed conveys John
Massey's part of his sister Ann's part of the tract Mount Ephraim to
William Franklin Riley [who is presumably Ann Massey's husband ...
GL,III, ed.] Witnesses: Justices of the Peace Caleb Morris and Samuel
Tubbs; John C. Hardy is Worcester
County clerk. |
1830/05/04
|
|
Grantor
|
Grantee
|
Parcel
|
Acreage
|
Lib:No:Fol
|
Type
|
Henry Townsend
|
Samuel Massey
|
Goods & chattels
|
[none]
|
AW:114
|
Bill of Sale
|
May 4, 1830: Samuel Massey of
Worcester County in the State of Maryland buys for $8.00 from Henry
Townsend, also of Worcester County, the following goods and chattels:
One cow, "slit and under bit the right ear and under her the left ear,"
one ditto heifer, white of the same mark, two red bull yearlings of the
same mark, one black bull of the same mark as before mentioned, and all
of which property is now in my possession. Witnesses: William Moore,
William Timmons and Justice of the Peace Isaac Collins; John C. Hardy is Worcester County clerk. |
1830/09/11
|
|
Grantor
|
Grantee
|
Parcel
|
Acreage
|
Lib:No:Fol
|
Type
|
| Lambert C. Powell & wife Louisa and Rachel
Massey |
John A. Massey & Kendall Massey |
Brick Ridge, Penny Street, Silver Street and
Pleasant Lott |
167
|
AW:326 |
Deed
|
September 11, 1830: Lambert E.
Powell and his wife Louisa Powell and Rachel Massey sell for
$233.00 to John A. Massey and Kendle (Kendall) Massey, also of
Worcester County, all their right, title and interest in the lands
which were devised to them by John A. Massey, Senior, lying in
Worcester County and known as Brick
Ridge, Penny Street, Silver Street and Pleasant Lott, near the head of
Herring Creek and on the public road leading from the same, which land
was willed by the father of John A. Massey to his sons Alexander
Massey, John Massey, and Kendall Massey to be divided between them,
containing one hundred and sixty seven acres. Witnesses: Schoolfield
Lamberson and Robert Pitts; John C. Handy is Worcester County clerk.
|
1830/09/19
|
|
Grantor
|
Grantee
|
Parcel
|
Acreage
|
Lib:No:Fol
|
Type
|
| John A. Massey, Kendall Massey, Rachel Massey,
Lambert C. Powell & wife Louisa |
Thomas Brittingham
|
[not stated]
|
[not stated]
|
AW:360
|
Deed
|
September 19, 1830: John A. Massey, Kindle (Kendall) Massey, Rachel
Massey, Lambert C. Powell and his wife Louisa Powell, all of Worcester
County in the State of Maryland sell for $83.32 to Thomas Brittingham,
also of Worcester County, all that lands devised to them by the Will of
their late father, John Massey, that is lying in Worcester County on
the road between Berlin and Poplar Town. Witnesses: Schoolfield
Lamberson and Robert Pitts; John C. Handy is Worcester County clerk.
|
1831/01/03
|
|
Grantor
|
Grantee
|
Parcel
|
Acreage
|
Lib:No:Fol
|
Type
|
Eli Truitt & wife Sarah, Belitha Gray,
Senior, and wife Pursey
|
Purnell Massey
|
Truitts Luck
|
124.5
|
AW:453
|
Deed
|
January 3, 1831: Purnell Massey
of Worcester County in the State of Maryland buys for $498.00 from Eli Truitt and his wife Sarah and Belitha Gray,
Senior, also of Worcester County, the 124-1/2 acre tract called
Truitt's Luck that is contained within the following metes and bounds:
Beginning at a marked black gum and a stone by its side, it being the
first bounder of Truitt's Luck, and thence running by and with the
patent courses of the two following lines: South eighty three degrees
East fifty six poles (perches), North forty six degrees East thirteen
poles, thence by and with the lines of Leptha Morris's lands North
eighty one degrees East one hundred and fifty poles to the fifth course
of Truitt's Luck, thence by and with the same North forty five degrees
East thirty one poles to the end of the fifth course to intersect the
second course of a tract of land called Buckland, belonging to John S.
Purnell and wife, thence [by] the said second course reversed North
seventy three and a half degrees West two hundred and eleven poles to
the sixth course of a deed from said Truitt to Erressine and Margaret
E. Henry, thence reversing said deed the six following courses: South
fifty four degrees West thirty poles, South twenty seven degrees West
fourteen poles, South three degrees West twenty six poles, South eighty
four degrees West nineteen and a half poles, North eighty three degrees
West twenty five poles, North sixty six degrees West sixteen poles to
the beginning of said deed, thence reversing the home course of the
same North seventy six poles to the aforesaid second line of Buckland,
thence with the same North seventy three and a half degrees West eighty
two poles to the beginning of the seventh course of Truitt's Luck
aforesaid, and thence by and with the courses of the same the seven
following courses: South fifty four and a half degrees West twenty
poles, South seventy four degrees East ninety six poles, South one
hundred and twenty two poles, North eighty six degrees East sixteen
poles, North twenty degrees West fifteen poles, South eighty degrees
East forty five poles, and from thence with a straight line to the
first beginning, containing one hundred and twenty four and a half
acres. Witnesses: Justices of the Peace Thomas Gray and Kindel Collyer;
John C. Handy is Worcester County clerk.
|
1831/04/14
|
|
Grantor
|
Grantee
|
Parcel
|
Acreage
|
Lib:No:Fol
|
Type
|
| Henry Franklin, Junior, and wife Sarah
|
Alexander Massey, Senior |
Carmel, Penny Street, Silver Street and
Pleasant Lott |
30
|
AX:135
|
Deed
|
April 14, 1831: Alexander Massey
of Worcester County in the State of Maryland buys for $1,500.00 from
Henry Franklin, also of Worcester County, all those lands which were
conveyed to Henry Franklin by Alexander Massey by deed dated May 5,
1821, [and recorded in Liber
AL,
Folio 480]. Witnesses: Justices of the Peace James F. Mills and
Robert Mitchell; John C. Handy is Worcester County clerk. |
1831/07/20
|
|
Grantor
|
Grantee
|
Parcel
|
Acreage
|
Lib:No:Fol
|
Type
|
| Alexander Massey, Senior, and wife Katharine
|
Alexander Massey, Junior |
Carmel and Penny Street, Silver Street &
Pleasant Lott |
300 & 30
|
AX:207
|
Deed
|
July 20,
1831: Alexander Massey, Senior, of Worcester County in the State of
Maryland sells for $600.00 to Alexander Massey, Junior, also of
Worcester County, all the lands to be conveyed after his death which he
inherited from his father John Massey according to the Will dated July
16, 1785, including the land and marshes on which Alexander, Senior,
now lives called Carmall (Carmel), lying in Worcester County in
Synapuxent Neck containing three hundred acres, also three tracts of
land over the bank called Penny Street, Silver Street and Pleasant Lot,
containing thirty acres, including all the lands now owned by
Alexander, Senior. Witnesses: Justices of the Peace James F. Mills and
Henry Franklin; John C. Handy is Worcester County clerk. |
1831/09/07
|
|
Grantor
|
Grantee
|
Parcel
|
Acreage
|
Lib:No:Fol
|
Type
|
William Franklin Riley & wife Julia Ann
Riley, Moses C. Smith & wife Ann
|
Kendall Massey
|
[not stated]
|
5
|
AX:320
|
Deed
|
September 7, 1831: Kandal
(Kendall) Massey of Worcester County in the State of Maryland buys for
$400.00 from William Franklin Riley
and his wife Julia Ann Riley, Moses C. Smith and his wife Ann Smith,
all of Worcester County, the lands lying in New Ark, Worcester County,
that are contained within the following metes and bounds: Beginning for
this lot at the South West corner of the lot formerly belonging to
Joshua Burbage, and from thence running by and with the Burbage lot
South forty three degrees East twelve perches, thence South fifty six
degrees West twenty six perches to the run of a branch or ditch, thence
North fifty three degrees West twelve perches to the County Road,
thence up by and with said road to the beginning, containing five
acres. Witnesses: Justices of the Peace Henry Franklin, Senior, and
Samuel Tubbs; John C. Handy is Worcester County clerk.
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1831/08/20
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Grantor
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Grantee
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Parcel
|
Acreage
|
Lib:No:Fol
|
Type
|
Lambert C. Powell & wife Louisa
|
Purnell Massey
|
Addition to Cathells Luck
|
11.75
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AX:370
|
Deed
|
August 20, 1831: Purnell Massey
of Worcester County in the State of Maryland buys for $47.00 from
Lambert C. Powell, also of Worcester county, 11-3/4 acres of a parcel
called Addition to Cathell's Luck that is contained within the
following metes and bounds: Beginning at the end of the eleventh and
the beginning of the twelfth course of said tract, and thence running
by and with the twelfth course aforesaid North seventy four degrees
West fifty three poles (perches) to a post, it being the Easternmost
corner of Cathell's Luck, thence South twenty one degrees East fifty
eight poles to a marked white oak, a course tree of a deed from James
Dirickson to Levi Cathell by the side of the County Road, thence by and
with said road the three following courses: South fifty eight degrees
East thirty one and a half poles, South thirty two degrees East one
pole to the eleventh line of the aforesaid tract, thence by and with
the same to the beginning, containing eleven and three quarter acres.
Witnesses: Thomas Gray and Kendel Collyer; John C. Handy is Worcester
County clerk.
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1832/04/16
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Grantor
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Grantee
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Parcel
|
Acreage
|
Lib:No:Fol
|
Type
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| Asael P. Brittingham & wife Mary
|
John A. Massey & Kendall Massey |
Penny Street, Pleasant Lot and Buckridge
|
[not stated]
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AY:121
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Deed
|
April 16, 1832: John A. Massey
and Kendle (Kendall) Massey, both of Worcester County in the State of
Maryland, buy for $140.00 from Asael Brittingham and his wife Mary
Brittingham, of New York City in the State of New York, land on the
head of Herring Creek in Worcester County, lately the property of John
A. Massey, Senior, deceased, called Penny Street, Pleasant Lot and
Buckridge. Witnesses: William Coger and Samuel Slater and Judge Samuel
R. Betts of the District Court of the United States for the Southern
District of New York; Thomas J. Betts and Fred J. Betts are Clerks of
the Southern District of New York; John C. Handy is Worcester County
clerk.
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1832/07/07
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Grantor
|
Grantee
|
Parcel
|
Acreage
|
Lib:No:Fol
|
Type
|
Purnell Massey
|
James Dirickson
|
Freemans Lot and [not stated]
|
150 & [not stated]
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AY:232
|
Deed
|
July 7,
1832: Purnell Massey of Worcester County in the State of Maryland sells
for $627.00 to James Dirickson, also of Worcester County, all the tract
called Freeman's Lot which Purnell Massey purchased from Err Truitt and
his wife, and which contains about one hundred and fifty acres, and all
the land purchased by Purnell Massey from Lambert C. Powell. Witnesses:
Justices of the Peace Schoolfield Lamberson and James F. Mills; John C.
Handy is Worcester County clerk.
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1832/07/13
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Grantor
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Grantee
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Parcel
|
Acreage
|
Lib:No:Fol
|
Type
|
| Purnell Massey |
James Dirickson |
slave Hetty and goods & chattels
|
[none]
|
AY:234
|
Bill of Sale
|
July 13,
1832: Purnell Massey of Worcester County in the State of Maryland sells
for $198.00 to James Dirickson, also of Worcester County, the following
goods and chattels: Four head of horses, a slave named Hetty, two yoke
of oxen, sixteen head of cattle, one wagon, thirty six head of sheep,
eighteen head of hogs, five beds & furniture, six stool chairs, two
pine tables, two chests, one cupboard, a lot of pot metal, a lot of
cooper's ware, a lot of barrels & hogsheads, crop of corn &
fodder now on the ground, two ox chains, two ox yokes, two pair horse
chains and forked chain, four leather collars, four plows and four
harrows, all and singular which said goods, property and slave are now
remaining in my possession. Witnesses: Justices of the Peace
Schoolfield Lamberson and James F. Mills; John C. Handy is Worcester
County clerk. |
1833/04/27
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|
Grantor
|
Grantee
|
Parcel
|
Acreage
|
Lib:No:Fol
|
Type
|
| John C. Dirickson & wife Katharine
|
Samuel Massey |
Partners Neglect, Fair Meadow, and Addition to
Fair Meadow |
[not stated]
|
AZ:122
|
Deed
|
April 27,
1833: Samuel Massey of Worcester County in the State of Maryland buys
for $812.00 from John C. Dirickson, also of Worcester County, all those
lands which were conveyed to John C. Dirickson by James A. Collins by
deed dated October 20, 1828, and which are called Partners Neglect,
Fair Meadow, and Addition to Fair Meadow, excepting lands that John C.
Dirickson has deeded off of said lands to John J. Williams, the
Listers, Soloman Morris and James M.L. Sturgis, the balance of said
land the said Dirickson now deeds to Samuel Massey lying in the
neighborhood of Berlin. Witnesses: Justices of the Peace James F. Mills
and Robert Mitchell; John C. Handy is Worcester County clerk. |
1833/12/24
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|
Grantor
|
Grantee
|
Parcel
|
Acreage
|
Lib:No:Fol
|
Type
|
Kendall Massey, Senior
|
Peter Massey & wife Rachel
|
Buckridge
|
5
|
AZ:537
|
Lease
|
December 24, 1833: Kendall
Massey, Senior, of Worcester County in the State of Maryland, leases
for $1.00 to Peter Massey and his wife Rachel, free blacks, a part of
the tract called Bucke Ridge (Buckridge) which is enclosed by the
following metes and bounds: Beginning at a marked pine and running from
thence North eighty four degrees West twenty poles (perches), then
North twelve degrees East forty poles, then South eighty four degrees
East twenty poles, and from thence with a straight line to the
beginning, containing five acres, including the right to cut all thye
firewood and fence rails they may need on the land from the surrounding
portion of Buckridge. Wiynesses: Justices of the Peace Schoolfield
Lamberson and Powell Pattey; John C.
Handy is Worcester County clerk. |
1834/09/09
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|
Grantor
|
Grantee
|
Parcel
|
Acreage
|
Lib:No:Fol
|
Type
|
James Dirickson
|
Purnell Massey
|
slave Hetty and goods & chattels
|
[none]
|
JCH:1:156
|
Receipt
|
July 7,
1832 (recorded September 9, 1834): Purnell Massey of Worcester County
in the State of Maryland buys for $189.00 from James Dirickson, also of
Worcester County, the following goods and chattels: Four head of
horses, one slave girl named Hetty, two yoke of oxen, sixteen head of
cattle, one wagon, thirty six head of sheep, eighteen head of hogs,
five beds & furniture, six stool chairs, ten pine tables, two
chests, one cupboard, a lot of pot metal, a lot of coopers ware, a lot
of barrels and hogsheads, crop of corn & fodder now on the ground,
two ox chains, two ox yokes, two pair of horse chains & forked
chain, four leather collars, four plows and four harrows, all of which
property the said Purnell Massey put the said James Dirickson in full
possession of by delivering up the same to secure the payment
aforesaid. [Underneath, the Bill of Sale continues:] "Purnell Massey
has paid and satisfied the full amount of all the money entered to be
secured by virtue of this Bill of Sale above mentioned in full and I do
hereby assign, transfer and set over all my right and title of and into
all the articles and property above mentioned unto Purnell Massey ...
and the aforesaid Bill of Sale to be void and of no effect. James
Dirickson." Witness: Robert Franklin; John C. Handy is Worcester County
clerk.
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1834/10/18
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|
Grantor
|
Grantee
|
Parcel
|
Acreage
|
Lib:No:Fol
|
Type
|
| James Dirickson & wife Henrietta
|
Purnell Massey
|
Freemans Lot
|
150
|
JCH:1:208
|
Deed
|
October 18, 1834: Purnell Massey
of Worcester County in the State of Maryland buys for $627.00 from
James Dirickson and his wife Henrietta, also of Worcester County, all
the land which they had purchased from Purnell Massey called Freeman's
lot containing 150 acres and all the lands purchased from Lambert
Powell, whose deed for both tracts is recorded in Liber
AY, Folio
232, dated July 7, 1832. Witnesses: Justices of the Peace James F.
Mills and Henry Franklin; John C. Handy is Worcester County clerk.
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1835/03/14
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|
Grantor
|
Grantee
|
Parcel
|
Acreage
|
Lib:No:Fol
|
Type
|
Samuel Massey
|
Card H. Lyster
|
Killsey Hill
|
2+
|
JCH:1:373
|
Deed
|
March 14, 1835: Samuel Massey of
Worcester County in the State of Maryland sells for $24.00 to Card H.
Lyster, also of Worcester County, a 2+ acre tract called Killsey Hill
enclosed by the following metes and bounds: Beginning for this lot at a
line on the South West side of a lot of land belonging to William
Lyster and also at a bounder at the end of the third corner of a lot of
land belonging to Elisha L. Purnell which he bought of the said Samuel
Massey, and running from thence by and with the line of said Elisha L.
Purnell's lot, binding thereon South thirty four degrees West fourteen
poles (perches) to a bounder, and from thence North sixty two degrees
West twenty four poles to another bounder, and from thence North thirty
four degrees East fourteen poles to the land belonging to the aforesaid
Card H. Lyster, and from thence with a straight line to the first
beginning, containing two acres and sixteen poles, lying in Worcester
County near the Village of Berlin. Witnesses: Justices of the Peace
James F. Mills and Robert Mitchell; John C. Handy is Worcester County
clerk.
|
1835/03/05
|
|
Grantor
|
Grantee
|
Parcel
|
Acreage
|
Lib:No:Fol
|
Type
|
Mary Baker
|
James Massey
|
Smiths Industry
|
18.5
|
JCH:1:444
|
Deed
|
March 5,
1835: James Massey of Worcester County in the State of Maryland buys
for $12.50 from Mary Baker, also of Worcester County, an 18-1/2 acre
portion of the tract called Smith's Industry, lying in Worcester County
adjoining the lands of Purnell Massey. Witnesses:
Justices of the Peace James F. Mills and Robert Mitchell; John C. Handy
is Worcester County clerk. |
1835/04/04
|
|
Grantor
|
Grantee
|
Parcel
|
Acreage
|
Lib:No:Fol
|
Type
|
Samuel Massey
|
James Dirickson
|
Pindars Neglect
|
15.75+
|
JCH:2:20
|
Deed
|
April 4, 1835: Samuel Massey of
Worcester County in the State of Maryland sells for $105.00 to James
Dirickson, also of Worcester County, a 15-3/4+ acre part of the tract
called Pindar's Neglect that is contained within the following metes
and bounds: Beginning at a post set up in the ground at the South West
corner of James Sturgis's Lot, that he sold to James Dirickson on the
line of Littleworth, and from thence running and reversing James W.L.
Sturgis's line North sixty nine degrees East thirty eight and a half
poles (perches) to the corner of James W.L. Sturgis's deed, and from
thence South six and a half poles, then West sixty six degrees [poles
?] to a road, and along on the East side of said road, thence South
twenty four and a half poles [degrees ?] West six poles across the
branch, then South nine poles, then South thirty three degrees West
seventeen poles, then South twenty eight degrees West across said road
twenty four poles to the road leading from Buckingham Meeting House to
Thomas Rily's and a marked pine by said road, thence North sixty
degrees West six poles ro a stump, the corner of Pindar's Neglect and
Littleworth, containing fifteen and three quarter acres and three and a
half poles. Witnesses: Justices of the Peace James F. Mills
and Robert Mitchell; John C. Handy is Worcester County clerk. |
1835/04/25
|
|
Grantor
|
Grantee
|
Parcel
|
Acreage
|
Lib:No:Fol
|
Type
|
Samuel Massey
|
Elijah M. Jarvis
|
Pendars Neglect
|
1.75
|
JCH:2:215
|
Deed
|
April 25, 1835: Samuel Massey of
Worcester county in the State of Maryland sells for $70.00 to Elijah M.
Jarvis, also of Worcester County, a 1-3/4 acre part of the tract called
Pendar's (Pindar's) Neglect lying in Worcester County near the Village
of Berlin that is contained within the following metes and bounds:
Beginning for this lot at a bounder set up at the end of the third
course of a lot which Card H. Lyster bought of Samuel Massey, also at
the line of a tract which the aforesaid Card H. Lyster bought from John
T. Lyster, and running from thence by and with the third course of said
Card H. Lyster's lot and binding thereon South thirty four degrees West
fourteen poles (perches) to a bounder, and from thence North sixty two
degrees West twenty poles to a bounder within seventy feet of a tract
belonging to James Dirickson, and from thence running North twenty five
degrees East leaving a road between the said James Dirickson's land and
the lot to the South West corner of the said Card H. Lyster's lot as
aforesaid fourteen poles, and from thence with a straight line to the
first beginning, containing one and three quarter acres. Witnesses:
Justices of the Peace James F. Mills and Powell Patey (Pattey); John C.
Handy is Worcester County clerk. |
1836/03/25
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March 25, 1836: Confirmation,
the patent granted to Sarah Taylor, Patent Certificate No. 604.
Images:
| MSA S1210-649, p. 1 |
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MSA S1210-649, p. 5 |
MSA S1210-649, p. 7 |
MSA S1210-649, p. 9 |
| MSA S1210-649, p. 2 |
MSA S1210-649, p. 4 |
MSA S1210-649, p. 6 |
MSA S1210-649, p. 8 |
MSA S1210-649, p. 10 |
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1836/06/14
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|
Grantor
|
Grantee
|
Parcel
|
Acreage
|
Lib:No:Fol
|
Type
|
James Dirickson
|
Samuel Massey and Elijah M. Jarvis |
Access road
|
20 feet wide
|
JCH:3:336
|
deed
|
June 14,
1836: Samuel Massey and Elijah M. Jarvis of Worcester County in the
State of Maryland buy for $50.00 from James Dirickson, also of
Worcester County, a twenty foot wide road on the North East side of the
land which the said James Dirickson bought of James W.L. Sturgis and
wife, formerly the property of James Selby, deceased, which is
contained within the following metes and bounds: Beginning at the North
East corner of said land and near the end of the third course of the
lot of land that the said Elijah M. Jarvis bought of the said Samuel
Massey and near the South East corner of Coard (Card) H. Lister's
(Lyster's) land, running about a North course twenty feet in width by
and with the lines of a lot of land belonging to John J. Williams until
it intersects the main road leading from Berlin to the trap [sic].
Witnesses: Justices of the Peace Samuel Tubbs and James H. Mills; John
C. Handy is Worcester County clerk.
|
1836/06/25
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|
Grantor
|
Grantee
|
Parcel
|
Acreage
|
Lib:No:Fol
|
Type
|
John A. Massey &
wife Eliza I. Massey and Mary B. Taylor
|
Moses Johnson
|
Winchester & Good
Will
|
320
|
JCH:3:378
|
Deed
|
June 25, 1836: John A. Massey
and his wife Eliza (Elizabeth) I. Massey and Mary B. Taylor, all of
Worcester County in the State of Maryland sell for $900.00 to Moses
Johnson of the City of Philadelphia in the State of Pennsylvania all of
the 320 acre tract of land called Winchester and Good Will on which
Laban I. Taylor now lives and which descended to the said John A.
Massey and his wife Eliza and to Mary B. Taylor from the death of
William H. Taylor, father to the said Eliza I. Massey and Mary B.
Taylor, the aforesaid land lying in Worcester County on the South side
of Terrills Creek, containing about three hundred and twenty acres.
Witnesses: Justices of the Peace James F. Mills and Robert M. Baker;
John C. Handy is Worcester County clerk.
|
1836/06/14
|
|
Grantor
|
Grantee
|
Parcel
|
Acreage
|
Lib:No:Fol
|
Type
|
Comfort Ayres & wife Elizabeth
|
Isaac Massey
|
Holly Grove
|
2
|
JCH:4:242
|
Deed
|
June 14, 1836: Isaac Massey, free
Black of Worcester County in the State of Maryland buys for $10.00 from
Comfort Ayres and his wife Elizabeth Ayres, also of Worcester County, a
2 acre part of the tract called Holly Grove or Addition to Holly Grove
that was purchased from Caleb Hudson that lies on the West side of the
County Road leading from Hudson's old field by James Ayres gate to Synapuxent, being a beginning for the piece of
land where the West side line of said tracts crosses the above
described road and from thence running with said line and binding
thereon in a Southerly direction until it intersects the said county
Road again, and from thence binding on the West edge of said road along
up by James Ayres gate to the first beginning so as to enclose all the
land on the Westermost side of the above described road that the said
Comfort Ayres and Elizabeth Ayres purchased from their uncle Caleb
Hudson, supposed to contain two acres. [Folio 244 is missing from the
original volume, so the witnesses' and clerk's names are lost ... -
GL,III, ed.]
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1837/04/05
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Grantor
|
Grantee
|
Parcel
|
Acreage
|
Lib:No:Fol
|
Type
|
John Mitchell
|
Kendall Massey
|
Friendship
|
9.75
|
JCH:4:260
|
Deed
|
April 5, 1837: Kendall Massey of
Worcester County in the State of Maryland buys for $50.00 from John
Mitchell, also of Worcester County, a 9-3/4 acre portion of the tract
called Friendship lying near the Village of New Ark (Newark) in
Worcester County. Witnesses: Justices of the Peace James F. Mills and
Josiah D. Powell; John C. Handy is Worcester County clerk.
|
1837/05/17
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|
Grantor
|
Grantee
|
Parcel
|
Acreage
|
Lib:No:Fol
|
Type
|
Jacob White & wife Elizabeth
|
Alexander Massey, Junior
|
Carmel
|
8.5
|
JCH:4:393
|
Deed
|
May 17,
1837: Alexander Massey, Junior, of Worcester County in the State of
Maryland buys for $85.00 from Jacob White and his wife Elizabeth White,
also of Worcester County, a part of the tract called Carmell (Carmel)
that William Fassitt sold to Jacob White and which enclosed within the
following metes and bounds: Beginning at a post set up in the ground on
the East side of said Massey's road that leads from the dwelling house
to the woods and standing at the head of a ditch bank by the East edge
of said road, and from thence running said ditch bank on the South side
and binding thereon North seventy two degrees East twenty nine perches
to a large ditch, then across said ditch to the South bank, and then
binding on said South bank North seventy nine and a half degrees East
thirty one perches, then North twenty seven degrees East forty perches
to a post in the gut as a division between said Massey and this part,
and from thence running said division fence and binding thereon as a
division South sixty one and a half degrees West nine poles (perches)
South sixty five degrees West thirty six poles, South sixty six degrees
West seventeen poles to Massey's road, then binding on said road to the
first beginning, containing eight and a half acres. Witnesses: Justices of the Peace James F. Mills
and Robert Mitchell; John C. Handy is Worcester County clerk. |
1838/03/19
|
|
Grantor
|
Grantee
|
Parcel
|
Acreage
|
Lib:No:Fol
|
Type
|
Kendall Massey, Junior
& wife Julia Ann Massey
|
John A. Massey
|
Buckridge, Pleasant Lot, Penny Street &
Holly Grove |
167
|
GMH:1:325
|
Deed
|
March 19, 1838: Kendall
Massey, Junior, and his wife July (Julia) Ann Massey of Worcester
County in the State of Maryland sell for $500.00 to John A. Massey,
also of Worcester County, the 167 acres of lands which descended to
Kendall Massey, Junior, by the death of his father John Massey who died
intestate, including Buck Ridge (Buckridge), Pleasant Lot, Penny
Street, and Holly Grove, which composed the farm on which John Massey
lived at the time of his death, lying in a neck called Maddy Neck
adjoining the land of Kendall Massey, Senior, on the South and Powell
Patty's (Pattey's) land on the West and Moses Johnson's land on the
North and Alexander Massey, Senior, on the East, agreeable to a
division formally agreed upon by John Massey, Senior, Kendall Massey,
Senior, and Alexander Massey, Senior. Witnesses: Justices of the Peace
Josiah D. Powell and Ebenezer Powell; Gordon M. Handy is Worcester
County clerk.
|
1838/05/30
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|
Grantor
|
Grantee
|
Parcel
|
Acreage
|
Lib:No:Fol
|
Type
|
George C. Bower & wife Margaret S.
|
Kendall Massey
|
Hebo
|
237.5
|
GMH:1:353
|
Deed
|
May 30, 1838: Kendle (Kendall)
Massey of Worcester County in the State of Maryland buys for $2,375.00
from George C. Bower and his wife Margaret S. Bower of Philadelphia
County in the State of Pennsylvania, all that tract called Hebo
containing 237-1/2 acres that was devised to Margaret S. Bower by her
father Major Thomas Rackliffe by his Will. Witnesses: Justices of the
Peace William Bratten and John Sturges, Junior; Gordon M. Handy is Worcester County clerk. |
1839/05/23
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|
Grantor
|
Grantee
|
Parcel
|
Acreage
|
Lib:No:Fol
|
Type
|
| John C. Marshall |
John A. Massey & John M. Taylor |
Privilege, Cumberland & Second Privilege
Conclusion |
116.25 total
|
GMH:2:407 |
Deed
|
May 23,
1839: John A. Massey of Worcester County in the State of Maryland and
John M. Taylor of the City of Philadelphia in the State of Pennsylvania
buy for $1,500.00 from John C. Marshall of Worcester County the lands
which John C. Marshall purchased from William Bratten described in the
deed dated April 25, 1834 and which are contained within the following
metes and bounds: Beginning for the first tract or part of a tract as
described in said deed at the first bounder of the original tract
called Privilege, it being a white oak standing in the plantation on
the East side of the dwelling home, thence running South thirty two and
a half degrees West twenty poles (perches) to an old gate post by the
side of the County Road, thence with the said road South eighty eight
degrees West twenty two poles to an old gate post by the side of the
County Road, thence with the said road South eighty eight degrees West
twenty two poles, thence South forty two degrees West sixty eight
poles, thence South West twenty two poles, thence South seventy degrees
West twenty four poles, thence North eighty one degrees West thirty six
poles, thence North fifty six degrees East thirty poles, thence North
sixty eight degrees West forty five poles, thence North thirty degrees
East twenty nine poles to the line of oak poles, thence with the same
South sixty eight degrees East fifty three poles, thence North thirty
degrees East one hundred and forty four poles, thence East twenty two
poles to the second line of a tract called Hogg Quarters, thence with
the same South forty eight poles, thence South sixty four degrees East
fifty five poles, thence South thirty seven degrees West forty two
poles to the aforesaid old gate post, thence with a straight line to
the first beginning, containing sixty three and a half acres. And also
a part of a tract called Cumberland: Beginning for this tract of river
swamp at the end of the seventh and the beginning of the eighth course
of the original tract called Cumberland, and thence running South
fifteen poles, thence West one hundred and twelve poles, thence South
twenty seven poles, thence South forty three degrees East fifty nine
poles, thence South [sixty] one degrees East nine poles, thence North
thirty two degrees East fourteen poles, then North sixty one degrees
East seventy three poles, thence North thirty eight poles, thence North
[last line on this page overwritten by the
red Worcester County Court page identification printing] North
twelve degrees West forty poles, thence North fifty degrees East
sixteen poles, thence North forty eight degrees West seven and a half
poles, thence South fifty degrees West eighteen poles, thence South
twelve degrees East forty poles, and from thence with a right line to
the first beginning, containing forty two acres. And also a tract or
part of a parcel called Second Privilege Conclusion: Beginning for this
part at an old gate post on the road leading to Givins Bridge called on
by a deed from John K. Pitts to Nathaniel E. Bratten, deceased, North
thirty four and a half degrees East forty five poles, thence North
twenty seven poles to a sassafras post, thence South thirty two degrees
East sixty nine poles to the County Road, thence with said road South
seventy two and a quarter degrees West twenty eight poles, thence with
a right line to the first beginning, containing ten and three quarter
acres. All three parcels together aggregate to one hundred and sixteen
acres and adjoin lands belonging to the heirs of Sarah Taylor,
deceased. Witnesses: Justices of the Peace James F. Mills and Charles
A. Green; Gordon M. Handy is Worcester County clerk. |
1840/03/11
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Grantor
|
Grantee
|
Parcel
|
Acreage
|
Lib:No:Fol
|
Type
|
Laban I. Taylor & wife Sarah S. Taylor
|
James Massey
|
Smiths Industry
|
18.5
|
GMH:3:232
|
Deed
|
March 11,
1840: James Massey of Worcester County in the State of Maryland buys
for $20.00 from Laban I. Taylor and his wife Sarah S. Taylor, also of
Worcester County, lands which were conveyed to Laban I. Taylor by Sarah
Hill one of the heirs, a daughter of John Hill, deceased, formerly the
property of John Hill, and supposed to contain eighteen or twenty acres
in the whole tract, a lot of which is hereby conveyed, there being
several heirs claiming a right in and to said land called Smith's Industry, adjoining the lands of a
certain Purnell Massey. Witnesses: Justices of the Peace James F. Mills
and Charles A. Oram; Gordon M. Handy is Worcester County clerk.
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1839/12/24
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Grantor
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Grantee
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Parcel
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Acreage
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Lib:No:Fol
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Type
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Kendall Massey & wife Julia Ann Massey
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Johnson Gray
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tan yard & utensils
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0.5
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GMH:3:330
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Deed
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December 24, 1839: Kendall Massey
of Worcester County in the State of Maryland sells for $150.00 to
Johnson Gray, also of Worcester County, one half of a tan yard and
building in New Ark on the South East side of the Stage Road, formerly
being the property of James Gray, one half acre, and also the one half
of all the utensils of tanning. Witnesses: Justices of the Peace Peter
Franklin and Joshua M. Bowers; Gordon M. Handy is Worcester County
clerk.
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1840/05/20
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Grantor
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Grantee
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Parcel
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Acreage
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Lib:No:Fol
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Type
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| Peter Massey |
John Williams & Cyrus A. Williams
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Goods & chattels
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GMH:3:353
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Bill of Sale
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May 20, 1840: Peter Massey, free
Black of Worcester County in the State of Maryland sells for $60.00 to John Williams and Cyrus A. Williams, also of
Worcester County, the following goods and chattels: One horse, one yoke
of oxen, two cows, two yearlings, eight hogs, seventeen geese &
goslings, my crop of oats & corn now growing, one cart, my plain
harness and other farming utensils, two beds& the furniture for
same, and all my other household furniture. Witness: Charles A. Oram;
Gordon M. Handy is Worcester County clerk.
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1840/10/24
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Grantor
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Grantee
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Parcel
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Acreage
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Lib:No:Fol
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Type
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Thomas H. Collins & mother Martha Collins
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Kendall Massey
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Gladson Discovery
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18+
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GMH:3:521
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Deed
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October 24, 1840: Kendall Massey
of Worcester County in the State of Maryland buys for $100.95 from
Thomas H. Collins and his mother Martha Collins, also of Worcester
County, an 18+ acre part of the tract
called Gladson Discovery lying in Worcester County near Basket Town
that is contained within the following metes and bounds: Beginning at a
stone in the swamp, and thence running South thirty eight degrees East
[one hundred and five] poles (perches) to a marked pine, thence North
[ninety five and a half] poles, thence South [forty seven and a half]
degrees West [fifty two] poles, thence with a straight line drawn to
the first beginning, all of which is now in woods. Witnesses: Justices
of the Peace Thomas Johnson and James W. Holland; Gordon M. Handy is
Worcester County clerk.
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1840/12/25
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Grantor
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Grantee
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Parcel
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Acreage
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Lib:No:Fol
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Type
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| Samuel Massey |
David I. Truitt |
Partners Neglect, Fair Meadow, and Addition to
Fair Meadow |
140
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GMH:4:99
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Deed
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December 25, 1840: Samuel Massey
of Worcester County in the State of Maryland sells for $1,500.00 to
David I. Truitt, also of Worcester County, all the balance of the land
which Samuel Massey had purchased from John C. Dirickson by deed April
27, 1833, and recorded in Liber
AZ,
Folio 122, which Samuel Massey has not heretofore sold and deeded
off to several persons, and also the road that was deeded to Samuel
Massey by James Dirickson and recorded in Liber JCH, Folio 3:336, as an outlet that leads to the
County Road leading to Berlin, the said lands consisting of Partner's
Neglect, Fair Meadow, and Addition to Fair Meadow, lying near the
Village of Berlin in Worcester County and containing one hundred and
forty acres. Witnesses: Justices of the Peace James F. Mills and
Charles A. Orem; Gordon M. Handy is Worcester County clerk.
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1841/01/18
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Grantor
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Grantee
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Parcel
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Acreage
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Lib:No:Fol
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Type
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Isaac Covington & wife Amelia
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Samuel Massey
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Burly
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1.5
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GMH:4:105
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Deed
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January
18, 1841: Samuel Massey of Worcester County in the State of Maryland
buys for $168.00 from Isaac Covington and his wife Amelia Covington,
also of Worcester County, all of the 1-1/2 + acre lot lying in
Worcester County in the Village of Berlin according to the following
metes and bounds: Beginning twenty feet from where the North side of
South Street intersects Cherry Street in the middle of the ditch, and
from thence running down on the East side of Cherry Street and binding
thereon South thirty eight and a quarter degrees West twenty three and
three quarter perches to Bottle Branch, thence running down the
division line as the division line South forty five and three quarter
degrees East eleven poles (perches) and four links (4/25 perch), thence
North thirty nine degrees East twenty four and three quarter perches to
the South side of South Street, leaving said street twenty feet wide,
thence binding on said street to the first beginning, containing one
and a half acres and thirty perches, called Burly. Witnesses: Justices
of the Peace James F. Mills and Charles A. Orem; Gordon M. Handy is
Worcester County clerk.
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1841/03/13
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Grantor
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Grantee
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Parcel
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Acreage
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Lib:No:Fol
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Type
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Johnson Gray & wife Jane
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Kendall Massey
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Gray's Tan Yard
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[not stated]
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GMH:4:175
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Deed
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March 13, 1841: Kendall Massey of
Worcester County in the State of Maryland buys for $125.00 from Johnson
Gray, also of Worcester County, all of Gray's Tan Yard, including the
spot and bark house, lying in Worcester County in Newark (New Ark).
Witnesses: Justices of the Peace Joshua M. Bowen and Thomas Johnson;
Gordon M. Handy is Worcester County clerk.
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1841/08/21
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Grantor
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Grantee
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Parcel
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Acreage
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Lib:No:Fol
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Type
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| William J. Pennewill & wife Mary B.
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John A. Massey, Laban I. Taylor &
John M. Taylor |
Johnson Gray survey
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585
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GMH:4:421 |
Deed
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August
21, 1841: John A. Massey and Laban I. Taylor of Worcester County in the
State of Maryland and John M. Taylor of the City of Philadelphia in the
State of Pennsylvania buy for $1,230.00 from William J. Pennewill and
his wife Mary B. Pennewill, both of Worcester County, a part of the
tract that at her death was claimed by Sarah Taylor, deceased mother of
Mary B. Pennewill, and was surveyed by Johnson Gray, Worcester County
Surveyor, and recorded August 29, 1828, the metes and bounds of which
are: Beginning for this resurvey at a mulberry post standing on the
edge of the bank of Pocomoke River about two perches from the river
swamp on the South side of the County Road about one quarter mile to
the eastward from Givins Bridge, and from thence running South fifty
four degrees East twenty poles (perches), thence South sixty six
degrees East twenty two poles, thence South two poles to the bounder of
Haw Point, thence reversing the home course of Haw Point South fourteen
degrees East one hundred and thirty five poles to the beginning of said
home course, thence reversing said tract the three following courses:
East twenty six poles, then North forty poles, then North sixty two
degrees East fifty six poles to intersect the fourth course of
Beachsylvania, thence by and with the same South twelve degrees East
twenty eight poles, then North sixty one and a half degrees East two
hundred and four poles to intersect the twenty second course of
Beachsylvania, thence with the said twenty second course of
Beachsylvania, thence with the twenty second course of Beachsylvania
North sixty eight degrees West fifty two poles to the beginning of the
fourteenth course of a tract called Conclusion, thence with the said
fourteenth course North thirty degrees East twenty eight poles to the
end thereof, thence with the fifteenth course of the same South sixty
eight degrees East forty four pols to the beginning of the fifth
course of Oak Hall, thence with the courses of the same North thirty
degrees East one hundred and forty four poles, thence East twenty two
poles, thence North thirty four degrees East nine poles to intersect
the second course of a tract called Hog Quarter, thence reversing the
same North eleven poles to the beginning of said second course, thence
reversing the first course of the same north thirty four degrees East
thirty two poles to intersect the eighth course of Oak Hall aforesaid,
thence with the same North twenty one degrees West seventy four poles,
thence with the ninth course of the same North thirty degrees East four
poles to the end of the fourth course of a deed from Sarah Taylor to
Stephen Purnell, thence reversing said fourth course North thirty six
degrees West forty seven poles to intersect the twelfth course of Oak
Hall aforesaid, thence with the same South eighty two degrees West
fifty poles to the end thereof, thence with the thirteenth course of
the same West sixty eight poles, thence South sixty five [degrees] West
one hundred and nineteen poles to the beginning of the nineteenth
course of Oak Hall, thence with the same South fourteen poles to
intersect the first course of Beachsylvania aforesaid, thence reversing
the same South forty degrees East forty three poles to the first
bounder of Oak Hall, also the first bounder of Beachsylvania, then by
and with the four first courses of Oak Hall South eighty poles, thence
South sixty eight degrees East eighty poles, thence South thirty
degrees West forty poles, thence South sixty eight degrees East seventy
seven poles to intersect the twenty third course of Beachsylvania, then
reversing the same South thirty degrees West twenty six poles to a
divisional line between said Taylor and Isaac Marshall, thence
reversing said divisional line South eighty eight degrees West fifty
poles to the beginning of the fourth course of the original tract Beach
Ridge (Buckridge ?), thence with the same North eighty eight degrees
West one hundred and twenty six poles to intersect the third course of
Beach Point aforesaid, thence with the same North one hundred and
thirteen poles to the end of said third course and the beginning of the
tract called Johnson's Lane, thence with the same North twenty four
degrees West four poles, thence West eighty xix poles to intersect the
fifth course of Beach Point aforesaid, thence with the same North forty
eight degrees West seventy seven poles to the end of the said fifth
course, thence by and with the courses of Beach Point aforesaid the
seven following courses: South fifty degrees West eighteen poles,
thence South twelve degrees East forty poles, thence South thirty three
degrees East seventy six poles, thence South thirty eight poles, thence
South sixty one degrees West seventy three poles, thence South thirty
two degrees West fourteen poles, thence North sixty one degrees East
fifty eight poles, and from thence with a straight line to the first
beginning, containing five hundred and eighty five acres and twenty
seven poles. Witnesses: Justices of the Peace Charles A. Orem and James
F. Mills; Gordon M. Handy is Worcester County clerk.
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1840/10/04
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Grantor
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Grantee
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Parcel
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Acreage
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Lib:No:Fol
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Type
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Kendall Massey, Junior & wife Julia Ann P.
Massey
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Commissioners of Worcester County
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High Fields
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0.5
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GMH:5:24
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Deed
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October 4, 1840: Kendall Massey, Junior, and his wife Julia Ann
P. Massey, both of Worcester County in the State of Maryland, sell for
$5.00 to the Commissioners of Worcester County, a 1/2 acre lot in the
tract called High Fields on which the Schoolhouse for District No.35
stands and which is enclosed within the following metes and bounds:
Beginning at a marked post standing on the North side of the County
Road near the Methodist Protestant Church, thence running by and with
the said road North fifty seven degrees East sixteen poles (perches),
thence North thirty three degrees West six poles, thence South fifty
seven degrees West sixteen poles, with a straight line to the beginning
post of which is the location of the Primary Schoolhouse No.35, being
on the North side of the County Road leading from Basket Town to Newark
(New Ark). Witnesses: Justices of the Peace Thomas Johnson and Joshua
M. Brown; Gordon M. Handy is Worcester County clerk.
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1841/10/16
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Grantor
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Grantee
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Parcel
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Acreage
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Lib:No:Fol
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Type
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| Henry Franklin, Zadok P. Henry, Littleton
Bowen, Edwin Foreman, Joseph R.S. Purnell, James M.L. Sturgis and John
C. Dirickson |
Samuel Massey |
Buckingham Academy
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1+
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GMH:5:54
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Deed
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October 16, 1841: Samuel Massey
of Worcester County in the State of Maryland buys for $160.00 from Henry Franklin, Zadok P. Henry, Littleton
Bowen, Edwin Foreman, Joseph R.S. Purnell, James M.L. Sturgis and John
C. Dirickson, Trustees of the old Buckingham Academy, located at the
North End of Solomon Davis's Plantation on the East side of the County
Road leading from Berlin to Poplar Town, the 1+ acre lot of land where
the said Academy stands, that was conveyed to Thomas S. Fassitt, Thomas
N. Williams, George M. Purnell, James A. Collins, William F. Selley,
John P. Marshall, John Milham, Cord Hazzard, and Robert I. Henry, then
Trustees of the said Buckingham Academy by a deed dated May 16, 1817,
by Captain William Riley, bounded and described as follows: Beginning
at a small sassafras post standing about four feet South Easterly from
a hickory [tree] which is on or near the sixth course of said tract
called Buckingham and also on or near the second course of a tract
called Unity, which post and hickory standing on the South edge of the
road leading from Little Neck Landing to the Main Stage Road, thence
running up the South edge of said road North seventy six degrees West
sixteen poles (perches) to a sassafras post standing on the South East
edge of the Main Stage Road, thence down and with the South East edge
of the Stage Road South thirty six degrees West ten poles to a
sassafras post, thence South sixty one degrees East fourteen and three
quarter poles to a sassafras post, thence to the first beginning of
this part, containing one acre and sixteen poles. Witnesses: Justices
of the Peace James F. Mills and Charles A. Orem; Gordon M. Handy is
Worcester County clerk.
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1841/10/05
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Grantor
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Grantee
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Parcel
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Acreage
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Lib:No:Fol
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Type
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Samuel Massey
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Mary Bowen
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Burby
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1.5+
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GMH:5:58
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Deed
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October 5, 1841: Samuel Massey of
Worcester County in the State of Maryland sells for $900.00 to Mary
Bowen, also of Worcester County, all that tract which he purchased from
Isaac Covington that lies in the Village of Berlin by deed dated
January 18, 1841 [and recorded in Liber GMH No.4, Folio 105]
and is contained within the following metes and bounds: Beginning of
this lot is twenty feet from where the North side of South Street
intersects Cherry Street in the middle of the ditch, and from thence
running down on the East side of Cherry Street and landing thereon
South thirty eight and a quarter degrees West twenty three and three
quarter perches to Bottle Branch, then running down the division fence
as the division line South forty five and three quarter degrees East
eleven and 4/25 pole, then North thirty nine degrees East
twenty four and three quarter perches to the South side of South
Street, leaving said street twenty feet wide, then binding on said
street to the first beginning, containing one and a half acres and
thirty perches, called Burly. Witnesses: Justices of the Peace James F.
Mills and Charles A. Orem; Gordon M. Handy is Worcester County clerk.
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1842/11/13
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Grantor
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Grantee
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Parcel
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Acreage
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Lib:No:Fol
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Type
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Robert H. Ellegood
& wife Maria, James A. Massey & wife Ann, and William Freeney
& wife Ann Maria
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William I. Leonard
& wife Elizabeth
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Wilton, Alderberry
& Plimpton Saltash
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337.5
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GMH:6:293 |
Deed
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November 13, 1842: Robert H.
Ellegood and his wife Maria, of Worcester County in the State of
Maryland, and James A. Massey and his wife Ann and William Freeney and
his wife Ann Maria of Somerset County sell for $2,700.00 to William I.
Leonard and his wife Elizabeth Leonard the 337-1/2 acres of the
parcels called Wilton, Alderberry and Plimpton Saltash which lie in
Worcester and Somerset Counties, and which were devised by the late
George Parker of Somerset County to his three grand daughters, Maria
Ellegood, Ann Massey, and Elizabeth W. Catherly. [It would appear that
Elizabeth Leonard, wife of William I. Leonard, is the third grand
daughter, Elizabeth W. Catherly - GL,III, ed.] Witnesses: Justices of
the Peace Henry Fooks and Levin Hitch; Gordon M. Handy is Worcester
County clerk.
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1842/11/10
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Grantor
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Grantee
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Parcel
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Acreage
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Lib:No:Fol
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Type
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Robert H. Ellegood
& wife Maria, and James A. Massey & wife Ann
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William I. Leonard
& wife Elizabeth |
Plimpton & Adams
Neglect
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26.25
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GMH:6:295 |
Deed
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November 10, 1842: Robert H.
Ellegood and his wife Maria, of Worcester County in the State of
Maryland, and James A. Massey & wife Ann, of Somerset County, also
in the State of Maryland, sell for $400.00 to William I. Leonard and
his wife Elizabeth the tracts called Plimpton, lying in Worcester
County adjoining and lying on the Easternmost side of a tract called
Adams Neglect, containing twenty six and one quarter acres. Witnesses: Justices of the Peace Henry
Fooks and Levin Hitch; Gordon M. Handy is Worcester County clerk. |
1843/08/26
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Grantor
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Grantee
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Parcel
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Acreage
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Lib:No:Fol
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Type
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Samuel Massey
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Thomas S. Turpin
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Buckingham
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1+
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GMH:6:490
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Deed
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August 26, 1843: Samuel Massey of
Worcester County in the State of Maryland sells for $200.00 to Thomas
S. Turpin, also of Worcester County, all that part of the tract called
Buckingham that lies within the following metes and bounds: Beginning at a
small sassafras post standing about four feet South Easterly from a
hickory [tree] which is on or near the sixth course of said tract
called Buckingham and also on or near the second course of a tract
called Unity, which post and hickory stand on the South edge of the
road leading from Little Neck Landing to the Main Stage Road, thence
running up the South edge of said road North seventy six degrees West
sixteen poles (perches) to a sassafras post standing on the South East
edge of the Main Stage Road, thence down and with the South East edge
of the Stage Road South thirty six degrees West ten poles to a
sassafras post, thence South sixty one degrees East fourteen and three
quarter poles to a sassafras post, thence to the first beginning of
this part, containing one acre and sixteen poles. Witnesses: Justices
of the Peace Robert Pitts and Charles A. Orem; Gordon M. Handy is
Worcester County clerk. |
1843/10/28
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Grantor
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Grantee
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Parcel
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Acreage
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Lib:No:Fol
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Type
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William Marshall
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Samuel Massey
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Lambersons Venture
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2 & 2.5
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GMH:7:19
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Deed
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October
28, 1843: Samuel Massey of Worcester County in the State of Maryland
buys for $125.00 from William Marshall, also of Worcester County, two
lots of land, one in the Village of Poplar Town on the South side of
the road leading from Poplar Town to Deep Landing and containing two
acres, and the other on the South side of the road leading from Poplar
Town to Thomas S. Turpin's farm, containing two and a half acres. The
lots are called Buckingham Addition to Lambersons Venture or Lambersons
Venture, which the said William Marshall purchased from Henry M.
Jarvis. Witnesses: Justices of the Peace Robert Pitts
and Charles A. Orem; Gordon M. Handy is Worcester County clerk. |
1843/12/23
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Grantor
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Grantee
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Parcel
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Acreage
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Lib:No:Fol
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Type
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James Massey
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Major Hastings
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Smiths Industry
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40
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GMH:7:45
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Deed
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December
23, 1843: James Massey of Worcester County in the State of Maryland
sells for $200.00 to Major Hastings, also of Worcester County, all that
parcel called Smiths Industry, lying in Worcester County in the Third
Election District adjoining the land of Purnell Massey and containing
about forty acres. Witnesses: Justices of the Peace Robert Pitts and
William D. Pitts; Gordon M. Handy is Worcester County clerk.
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1843/12/27
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Grantor
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Grantee
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Parcel
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Acreage
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Lib:No:Fol
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Type
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| James Massey |
Major Hastings |
slave Mary and goods & chattels
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[none]
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GMH:7:46
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Bill of Sale
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December 27, 1843: James Massey
of Worcester County in the State of Maryland sells for $800.00 to Major
Hastings, also of Worcester County, the following goods and chattels:
All the goods, household stuff, implements and furniture, corn, pork,
fodder & oats there hereinafter, particularly mentioned, that is to
say, one [slave] named Mary about fifteen years old, one pair mules,
one small horse, one wagon, one carriage, one yoke of oxen, dark and
white backs, one yoke of oxen, dark, brindle, one small pair of steers,
eight grown horses, seven head of yearlings, one side bull, three beds
& three bedsteads & all the furniture thereto belonging, one
walnut table, one pine [table], one set of chairs, twelve hundred
pounds of pork & bacon, six head of shoats, one sow & five
pigs, twelve head of sheep, forty stacks of fodder, two hundred and
thirty bushels of oats, two hundred and fifty bushels of corn, four
harrows, five plows, one drag, one lot of crockery ware, one lot of pot
metal, two pairs of iron traces & hames, one forked chain, four
leather collars, twenty seven head of geese, one corn box, ten bushels
of dried peaches, and twenty five bushels of Irish potatoes, being all
my personal estate, none remaining, standing and being on a certain
farm in Worcester County on the North East side of St. Martins River,
belonging to Zadok Marshall and now in the possession of the said James
Massey. Witness: Peter C. Powell; Gordon M. Handy is Worcester County
clerk.
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1844/01/26
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Grantor
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Grantee
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Parcel
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Acreage
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Lib:No:Fol
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Type
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Kendall Massey & wife Julia Ann P. Massey
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Stephen D. Bowden
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Yorkshire
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1.5
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GMH:7:120
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Deed
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January 26, 1844: Kendal
(Kendall) Massey and his wife Julia Ann P. Massey, both of Worcester
County in the State of Maryland, sell for $250.00 to Stephen D. Bowden,
also of Worcester County, all that 1-1/2 acre tract called Yorkshire,
lying in Worcester County in the Village of New Ark on the South side
of the Stage Road leading to Snow Hill adjoining the Tan Yard; the
Currying House divides it from the Tan Yard as the fence now stands.
All the land is inclosed belonging to the above mentioned tract,
formerly the property of Moses C. Smith and James Gray, containing one
and a half acres. Witnesses: Thomas Johnson and G.M. Bowden; Gordon M.
Handy is Worcester County clerk.
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1844/10/24
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Grantor
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Grantee
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Parcel
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Acreage
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Lib:No:Fol
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Type
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Fanny Massey & Major Hastings
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Purnell Massey
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Smiths Industry & Poplar Neck
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40 & 2
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GMH:7:502
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Deed
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October
24, 1844: Major Hastings and Fanny Massey, wife of James Massey, both
of Worcester County in the State of Maryland, sell for $150.00 to
Purnell Massey, also of Worcester County, all that tract which Major
Hastings purchased from James Massey by deed dated [December
23,] 1843 [and recorded in Liber GMH No.7, Folio 45], which land James Massey
purchased from Mark Baker by deed dated March 5, 1835, [and recorded in
Liber JCH No.1, Folio 444] as well as land purchased
from Joshua J. Taylor by deed dated March 11, 1840, [and recorded in Liber GMH No.3, Folio 232] containing about nineteen
acres, the lands lying in Worcester County and called Smith's Industry,
adjoining the lands of Purnell Massey, and also two acres of land
called Poplar Neck. Witnesses: James F. Mills and G.M. Bowden; Gordon
M. Handy is Worcester County clerk.
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1845/01/14
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Grantor
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Grantee
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Parcel
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Acreage
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Lib:No:Fol
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Type
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Samuel Massey
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John Cooper
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slave Stewart
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[none]
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GMH:8:52
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Bill of Sale
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January 14, 1845: Samuel Massey
of Worcester County in the State of Maryland sells for $225.00 to John
Cooper, also of Worcester County, the slave named Stewart, to which
said Samuel Massey has a one-half life interest. Witness: Justice of
the Peace James F. Mills; Gordon M. Handy is Worcester County clerk.
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1845/10/28
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Grantor
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Grantee
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Parcel
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Acreage
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Lib:No:Fol
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Type
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Sarah L. Henderson et al.
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Samuel Massey
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Providence or Cypress Discovery
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1.5
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GMH:8:443
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Deed
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October
28, 1845: Sarah Henderson and Henrietta Collins, widow of Price
Collins, both of Worcester County in the State of Maryland, sell for
$65.00 to Samuel Massey, also of Worcester County, 1-1/2 acres of that
lot of land which Robert Boyd sold to Elizabeth Collins, mother of the
said Price Collins, that lies in Synapuxent Neck immediately on the
road leading to South Point, adjoining the land of Schoolfield
Lamberson, Esquire, and contained within the following metes and
bounds: Beginning at the end of sixty one poles (perches) from a marked
white oak standing near a gate on said road that formerly belonged to
said Robert Boyd and now belonging to George Purnell, free Black, and
on the South side of the Neck road as aforesaid, thence running down
and with said road South thirty five degrees East sixteen poles to a
divisional line between the land that formerly belonged to said Robert
Boyd and said Schoolfield Lamberson, Esquire, thence with said road
line South seventy three degrees West thirty poles, thence with a right
line to the first beginning, containing one and a half acre, called
Providence or part of Cypress Discovery, lying in Worcester County.
Witnesses: Justices of the Peace James F. Mills and Lyttleton D.
Powell; Gordon M. Handy is Worcester County clerk.
|
1700/01/01
|
|
Grantor
|
Grantee
|
Parcel
|
Acreage
|
Lib:No:Fol
|
Type
|
Moline S.H. Fassitt
|
Alexander Massey
|
|
|
GMH:8:474
|
|
... not
located ...
|
1846/01/02
|
|
Grantor
|
Grantee
|
Parcel
|
Acreage
|
Lib:No:Fol
|
Type
|
| Alexander Massey & wife Sarah Jane
|
Edward J. Henry |
Carmel; Piney Street, Plain Street &
Pleasant Lot; and [not stated]
|
300; 30; and 8.5
|
GMH:8:491 |
Deed |
January 2, 1846: Alexander Massey
and his wife Sarah Jane Massey, both of Sussex County in the State of
Delaware, sell for $3,250.00 to Edward J. Henry of Worcester County in
the State of Maryland, the several tracts that were conveyed to
Alexander Massey by his father, Alexander Massey, Senior, by a deed
dated July 20, 1831, being the same lands that were devised to
Alexander Massey, Senior, by his father, John Massey, grandfather of
the said Alexander Massey, Junior, by his Last Will and Testament dated
July 16, 1785, being the same lands where Alexander Massey, Senior,
lived and died, called Carmel, lying in Worcester County in Synapuxent
Neck adjoining the lands that Lemuel Showall purchased from Cornelius
Fassitt, containing three hundred acres; also a part of three tracts
located on the creek called Piney Street, Plain Street and Pleasant
Lot, containing thirty acres; also a tract that Alexander Massey,
Junior, purchased from Cornelius Fassitt by deed dated June 7, 1837,
that lies in Synapuxent Neck and contains forty acres and is called
Carmel; and also the tract that Alexander Massey, Junior, purchased
from Jacob White by deed dated May 17, 1837, lying in Synapuxent Neck
that contains eight and a half acres. Witnesses: Justices of the Peace
James F. Mills and Lyttleton D. Powell; Gordon M. Handy is Worcester
County clerk. [See: Liber AX, Folio 207 and Liber JCH No.4, Folio 393 -
GL,III, ed.] |
1847/08/14
|
|
Grantor
|
Grantee
|
Parcel
|
Acreage
|
Lib:No:Fol
|
Type
|
Kendall Massey, Junior, & wife Julia Ann P.
Massey
|
Moses Claywell
|
Friendship
|
9
|
EDM:1:99
|
Deed
|
August 14, 1847: Kendle (Kendall) Massey, Junior, and his wife
Julia Ann P. Massey, both of Worcester County in the State of Maryland
sell for $100.00 to Moses Claywell, also of Worcester County, part of
the tract called Friendship, lying in Worcester County near the Village
of New Ark, containing nine acres. Witnesses: Justices of the Peace
Ebenezer Powell and Josiah Collins; Edward D. Martin is Worcester
County clerk.
|
1847/12/04
|
|
Grantor
|
Grantee
|
Parcel
|
Acreage
|
Lib:No:Fol
|
Type
|
Samuel Massey
|
Kelly Holloway, wife of ...
|
Lambersons Venture
|
2
|
EDM:1:204
|
Deed
|
December 4, 1847: Samuel Massey
of Worcester County in the State of Maryland sells for $55.00 to Hetty
Holloway, wife of Samuel Holloway, also of Worcester County, all that
lot located in Poplar Town in Worcester County on the South side of the
road leading from or through Poplar Town to Deep Landing, it being one
of the lands that William Marshall purchased from Henry W. Jarvis and
which William Marshall sold to Samuel Massey by deed dated October 28,
1843, containing two acres, it being the same tract called Buckingham
Addition to Lamberson's Venture or Lamberson's Venture [and recorded in Liber GMH No.7, Folio 19].
Witnesses: Justices of the Peace James F. Mills and Lyttleton D.
Powell; Edward D. Martin is Worcester County clerk.
|
1847/09/13
|
|
Grantor
|
Grantee
|
Parcel
|
Acreage
|
Lib:No:Fol
|
Type
|
| Kendall Massey, Junior, & wife Julia Ann P.
Massey |
Stephen D. Bowden
|
Yorkshire or Tan Yard
|
[not stated]
|
EDM:1:240
|
Deed
|
September 13, 1847: Kendal (Kendall) Massey, Junior, and his wife
Julia Ann P. Massey, both of Worcester County in the State of Maryland
sell for $30.00 to Stephen D. Bowden, also of Worcester County, all
that tract called Yorkshire or the Tan Yard, formerly occupied by
Han...[illegible] Burkage as a tan yard on the public road leading
through Newark (New Ark) to Snow Hill. Witnesses: Justices of the Peace
Ebenezer Powell and Samuel I. Johnson; Edward D. Martin is Worcester
County clerk.
|
1848/02/26
|
|
Grantor
|
Grantee
|
Parcel
|
Acreage
|
Lib:No:Fol
|
Type
|
| Joshua Hastings & wife Elizabeth
|
James Massey |
Three Brothers, Corn Hill & Addition to
Corn Hill |
525÷12 = 43.75 |
EDM:1:324 |
Deed
|
February 26, 1848: James Massey
of Worcester County in the State of Maryland buys from Joshua Hastings
and his wife Elizabeth Hastings, also of Worcester County, a 1/12 share
of the lands which Major Hastings, late of Worcester County, who died
intestate, left to six heirs, Joshua Hastings included among them, and
of which Joshua Hastings and his wife Elizabeth Hastings now sell a
half interest to James Massey, i.e., forty three and three quarter
acres. Witnesses: James F. Mills and George A. Parker; Edward D. Martin
is Worcester County clerk.
|
1848/04/29
|
|
Grantor
|
Grantee
|
Parcel
|
Acreage
|
Lib:No:Fol
|
Type
|
| Kendall Massey, Senior |
John A. Massey |
Black Ridge and Eagle Choice & Holly Grove
|
150 & 25
|
EDM:1:406 |
Deed
|
April 29,
1848: Kendall Massey, Senior of Worcester County in the State of
Maryland sells for $1,000.00 to John A. Massey also of Worcester
County, his share of the lands which Kendall Massey inherited with his
brothers Alexander Massey, John A. Massey, Daniel Massey, and the said
Kendall Massey by the Last Will and Testament of John Massey, their
father, dated July 16, 1785. The lands have been equitably divided
according to a plat dated November 3, 1801, and now the lands which are
being sold total one hundred and eighty four acres, being Black Ridge,
Eagle Choice and Holly Grove. Witnesses: Justices of the Peace William
D. Pitts and Cornelius E. Bathell; Edward D. Martin is Worcester County
clerk. |
1848/11/10
|
|
Grantor
|
Grantee
|
Parcel
|
Acreage
|
Lib:No:Fol
|
Type
|
James Dirickson, Zadok D. Henry & John C.
Dirickson
|
Samuel Massey
|
Goshen or Mayfield
|
449
|
EDM:2:140
|
Deed
|
November 10, 1848: Samuel Massey
of Worcester County in the State of Maryland buys for from the
Commissioners of Worcester County, i.e., James Dirickson, Zadok D.
Henry and John C. Dirickson, a portion of the lands which the
Commissioners just partitioned among the heirs of James Bruff, i.e.,
Edward Bruff, [illegible] S. Bruff, and Hetty M. Bruff of Worcester
County, who had petitioned Orphans Court for relief and settlement of
the estate of their father, who died in 1820, leaving considerable real
estate in Worcester County. Three of the children are not yet twenty
one: Eligar I. Bruff, William T. Bruff and George W. Bruff. John
Fassitt and Isaac Covington were also selected as Commissioners but
have since died. After suitable notice was given, the Commissioners
found that the lands of James Bruff could not be divided equitably
among all the heirs without diminishing their value; accordingly a
division of the tract into two parts was selected ... [but the clerk's
handwriting is only just barely legible, so to make this long story
shorter] ... and Samuel Massey was highest bidder at the public sale,
winning the parcel called Goshen or Mayfield for $4,564.08 that is
contained within the following metes and bounds: Lying South of a Gut
called Low Bridge, and commencing at said Gut and running in an
Easterly direction by and with said Gut and fence until it comes to the
corner of a ditch near the Main County Road, from thence by a straight
line to a stone bounder standing on the East side of said road,
containing four hundred and forty nine acres. Witnessed by two Justices
of the Peace with illegible signatures; Edward D. Martin is Worcester
County clerk.
|
1848/12/22
|
|
Grantor
|
Grantee
|
Parcel
|
Acreage
|
Lib:No:Fol
|
Type
|
| Purnell Massey & wife Nancy Massey
|
William I. Massey |
Smiths Industry, Poplar Hill & Freemans Lot
|
19, 2 & 15
|
EDM:2:212 |
Deed
|
December 22, 1848: Purnell Massey
and his wife Nancy Massey, both of Worcester County in the State of
Maryland sell for $190.00 to William I. Massey, also of Worcester
County, the lands which Purnell Massey purchased from Major Hastings,
James Massey and Fanney (Fanny) Massey, wife of James Massey, by a deed
dated October 24, 1844, [see Liber
GMH
No.7, Folio 502] it being the property that formerly belonged to
John Hill, containing nineteen acres and called Smith's Industry, also
two acres called Poplar Neck, also all that parcel adjoining the
aforesaid land and on the North side of said land and on the South side
of a road running between the said land and the said Purnell Massey's
farm, the said road leading to Saint Martin's Church, it being a part
of the land that the said Purnell Massey purchased from Err Truitt,
containing about fifteen or twenty acres [see Liber
AY, Folio 232]. Witnesses: Justices of the Peace William D. Pitts
and Cornelius E. Battell; Edward D. Martin is Worcester County clerk. |
1848/12/29
|
|
Grantor
|
Grantee
|
Parcel
|
Acreage
|
Lib:No:Fol
|
Type
|
| Isaac D. Cary & wife Sarah |
James Massey |
Three Brothers, Corn Hill, and Addition to Corn
Hill |
87.5
|
EDM:2:214 |
Deed
|
December 29, 1848: James Massey
of Worcester County in the State of Maryland buys for $600.00 from
Isaac D. Carey and his wife Sarah Casey, also of Worcester County, an
87-1/2 acre portion of the 525 acre parcel called Three Brothers, Corn
Hill, and Addition to Corn Hill that Major Hastings, late of Worcester
County, purchased from Stephen Holland and Elizabeth S. Holland by deed
dated April 1, 1837. The parcel is located on the South side of Saint
Martin's River adjoining the land of John S. Purnell, Esquire, and
others called Three Brothers, Corn Hill, and Addition to Corn Hill.
Witnesses: Justices of the Peace William D. Pitts and Cornelius E.
Battell; Edward D. Martin is Worcester County clerk. |
1849/03/05
|
|
Grantor
|
Grantee
|
Parcel
|
Acreage
|
Lib:No:Fol
|
Type
|
| Hiram B. Duncan & wife Sarah M. Duncan and
Mary Rane |
John A. Massey |
Holly Grove, Pleasant Lot and Penny Street
& Winchester |
167 & 80
|
EDM:2:273 |
Deed
|
March 5, 1849: John A. Massey of
Worcester County in the State of Maryland buys for $200.00 from Hiram
B. Duncan and his wife Sarah M. Duncan and Mary Rane (Rain), also of
Worcester County, the undivided tract that Sarah M. Duncan, wife of
Hiram B. Duncan, and Mary Rane inherited from Daniel Massey, late of
Worcester County, who was husband of the said Mary Rane and father of
the said Sarah M. Duncan, it being all the plantation that formerly
belonged to John A. Massey, late of Worcester County, deceased,
grandfather of Sarah M. Duncan, composed of the tracts called Holly
Grove, Pleasant Lot and Penny Street, containing one hundred and sixty
seven acres, the tract called Winchester, containing eighty acres,
adjoining the lands of John Taylor and Capt. William Holland, totaling
two hundred and forty seven acres in all. Witnesses: Justices of the
Peace William D. Pitts and Cornelius E. Battell; Edward D. Martin is
Worcester County clerk. |
1850/03/09
|
|
Grantor
|
Grantee
|
Parcel
|
Acreage
|
Lib:No:Fol
|
Type
|
Maria Hudson
|
James Massey
|
Holly Grove
|
183
|
EDM:3:18
|
Deed
|
March 9, 1850: James Massey of
Worcester County in the State of Maryland buys for $200.00 from Maria
Hudson, also of Worcester County, all of her right, title and claim to
the parcel called Holly Grove, containing one hundred and eighty three
acres, which James Massey purchased from Sally Mitchell of Worcester
County. Witnesses: Justices of the
Peace William D. Pitts and Cornelius E. Battell; Edward D. Martin is
Worcester County clerk. |
1850/03/10
|
|
Grantor
|
Grantee
|
Parcel
|
Acreage
|
Lib:No:Fol
|
Type
|
Samuel Massey
|
Thomas Evans
|
Lambersons Venture
|
3.5
|
EDM:3:57
|
Deed
|
March 10, 1850: Samuel Massee
(Massey) of Worcester County in the State of Maryland buys for $62.50
from Thomas Evans, of Sussex County in the State of Delaware, the 3-1/2
acre lot lying in Worcester County on the left hand side of the road
leading from Poplar Town to Liberty Town adjoining the lands of William
Marshall, of Z. Dannice H. Tingle, and others, called Buckingham's
Addition to Lamberson's Venture or Lamberson's Venture, containing
about three and a half acres. Witnesses:
Justices of the Peace William D. Pitts and Cornelius E. Battell; Edward
D. Martin is Worcester County clerk. |
1849/09/29
|
|
Grantor
|
Grantee
|
Parcel
|
Acreage
|
Lib:No:Fol
|
Type
|
Thomas Timmons & wife Mary Elizabeth
|
Samuel Massey
|
[not named]
|
87 & 32.75
|
EDM:3:503
|
Deed
|
September 29, 1849: Samuel Massey
of Worcester County in the State of Maryland buys for $2,400.00 from
Thomas Timmons and his wife Mary Elizabeth Timmons, also of Worcester
County, 119-3/4 acres in two tracts lying in Worcester County in the
Village of Berlin, that is, all the remainder of the lot that was
conveyed to Thomas Timmons by Powell Patty, John Sturgis, Zadock P.
Henry and James M.L. Sturgis by deed dated December 4, 1841, excepting
fifteen acres of the same sold to Moses Purnell, containing eighty
seven acres; and also all that tract which Thomas Timmons purchased
from John R. Franklin, Sarah Franklin, and George A. Franklin, lying on
the South side of the road leading from Buckingham Church to the farm
of Elisha L. Purnell and adjoining the land of Zadock P. Henry &
Henry Jarman, containing thirty two and three quarter acres, the two
tracts totaling one hundred and nineteen and three quarter acres. Witnesses: Justices of the Peace William D.
Pitts and Cornelius E. Battell; Edward D. Martin is Worcester County
clerk. |
1851/03/22
|
|
Grantor
|
Grantee
|
Parcel
|
Acreage
|
Lib:No:Fol
|
Type
|
| Sarah Mitchell |
James Massey |
Lot #1: Holly Grove & Addition to Holly
Grove |
183.25
|
EDM:3:553 |
Deed
|
March 22, 1851: James Massey of
Worcester County in the State of Maryland buys for $1,325.00 from Sarah
Mitchell, also of Worcester County, all those tracts which were
conveyed to her by the Commissioners Zadock R. Henry, Powell Patty and
John C. Dirickson according to an order of Worcester County Court in
the May Term, 1847, it being part of the real estate of Caleb
Hudson,and bid by his son John Hudson, called Lot No. One, composed of
the following tracts: Hollly Grove and Addition to Holly Grove,
containing one hundred and eighty three and a quarter acres, adjoining
the land of John M. Taylor and others, lying in Worcester County.
Witnesses: Justices of the Peace William D. Pitts and Cornelius E.
Battell; Edward D. Martin is Worcester County clerk. |
1851/12/09
|
|
Grantor
|
Grantee
|
Parcel
|
Acreage
|
Lib:No:Fol
|
Type
|
Purnell Massey
|
Rufus Massey
|
slave Isaac
|
[none]
|
EDM:4:264
|
Bill of Sale
|
December 9, 1851: Purness Massey
of Worcester county in the State of Maryland sells for $99.00 to Rufus
Massey, also of Worcester County, his slave named Isaac, age about
seven years. Witness: Justice of the Peace William D. Pitts; Edward D.
Martin is Worcester County clerk.
|
1852/01/27
|
|
Grantor
|
Grantee
|
Parcel
|
Acreage
|
Lib:No:Fol
|
Type
|
Kendall Massey
|
Henrietta Bowen
|
slave Sarah Elizabeth
|
[none]
|
EDM:4:319
|
Bill of Sale
|
January 27, 1852: Kendall Massey of Worcester County in the State of
Maryland sells for $30.00 to Henrietta Bowen, also of Worcester County,
his slave Sarah Elizabeth, about seven years old. Witness: Justice of
the Peace Cornelius E. Battell; Edward
D. Martin is Worcester County clerk. |
1852/01/24
|
|
Grantor
|
Grantee
|
Parcel
|
Acreage
|
Lib:No:Fol
|
Type
|
Samuel Massey
|
Levin J. Jones
|
Providence or Cypress Discovery |
1.5
|
EDM:4:337
|
Deed
|
January 24, 1852: Samuel Massey
of Worcester County in the State of Maryland sells for $95.00 to Levin
(Leven) J. Jones, also of Worcester County, all that tract which Samuel
Massey purchased from Sarah Henderson and Henrietta Collins by deed
dated October 28, 1845, [and recorded in Liber GMH No.8, Folio 443], lying in
Worcester County on Synapuxent Neck immediately on the road leading to
South Point, adjoining the land belonging to James F. Mills and
enclosed within the following metes and bounds: Beginning at the
end of sixty one poles (perches) from a marked white oak near a gate
standing on the road belonging to George Purnell, free Black, and on
the South side of said road as aforesaid, thence running down and with
said road South thirty five degrees East sixteen poles to a divisional
line between the land that formerly belonged to Robert Boyd and the
land that now belongs to James F. Mills, thence from said road line
South seventy three degrees West thirty poles, then with a right line
to the first beginning, containing one and a half acres. Witnesses: Justices of the Peace William D.
Pitts and Cornelius E. Battell; Edward D. Martin is Worcester County
clerk. |
1853/04/02
|
|
Grantor
|
Grantee
|
Parcel
|
Acreage
|
Lib:No:Fol
|
Type
|
Kendall Massey
|
Joseph Godfrey
|
slave Amelia
|
[none]
|
EDM:4:435
|
Bill of Sale
|
April 2, 1853: Kendall Massey of
Worcester County in the State of Maryland sells for $325.00 to Joseph
Godfrey, also of Worcester County, his slave Amelia, about thirteen
years old. Witness: Justice of the Peace William D. Pitts; Edward D.
Martin is Worcester County clerk.
|
1852/04/29
|
|
Grantor
|
Grantee
|
Parcel
|
Acreage
|
Lib:No:Fol
|
Type
|
| John A. Massey & wife Eliza Jane
|
John M. Taylor |
Privilege, Cumberland & Second Privilege
Conclusion |
116.25 total |
EDM:4:478 |
Deed |
April 29, 1852: John A. Massey
and his wife Eliza Jane Massey, both of Worcester County in the State
of Maryland sell for $1,000.00 to John M. Taylor, of the City of
Philadelphia in the State of Pennsylvania, 116-1/4 acres in the tracts
which the said John A. Massey and John M. Taylor purchased from John C.
Marshall, consisting of several parcels as referenced by a deed dated
May 23, 1839, [and recorded in Liber
GMH No.2, Folio 407]. Witnesses:
Justices of the Peace William D. Pitts and Cornelius E. Battell; Edward
D. Martin is Worcester County clerk. |
1853/04/16
|
|
Grantor
|
Grantee
|
Parcel
|
Acreage
|
Lib:No:Fol
|
Type
|
| John A. Massey & wife Eliza Jane Massey
|
John M. Taylor |
Johnson Gray survey |
585÷15 = 39 |
EDM:5:280 |
Deed |
April 16, 1853: John A. Massey
and his wife Eliza Jane Massey of Worcester County in the State of
Maryland sell for $400.00 to John M. Taylor, of the City of
Philadelphia in the State of Pennsylvania, the tract purchased by the
said John A. Massey, Luban J. Taylor and the said John M. Taylor from
William J. Penewell and his wife Mary B. Penewell, that is, one third
of one fifth of the lands formerly owned by Mrs. Sarah Taylor, late of
Worcester County. [see the deed recorded in Liber
GMH
No.4, Folio 421 - GL,III, ed.] Witnesses:
Justices of the Peace William D. Pitts and Cornelius E. Battell; Edward
D. Martin is Worcester County clerk. |
1853/11/18
|
|
Grantor
|
Grantee
|
Parcel
|
Acreage
|
Lib:No:Fol
|
Type
|
Kendall Massey
|
Solomon Carey
|
slave Hannah
|
[none]
|
EDM:5:518
|
Bill of Sale
|
November 18, 1853: Kendal
(Kendall) Massey of Worcester County in the State of Maryland sells for
$80.00 to Solomon Carey, also of Worcester County, his slave Hannah,
about two years old. Witness: Justice of the Peace William D. Pitts;
Edward D. Martin is Worcester County clerk.
|
1854/01/10
|
|
Grantor
|
Grantee
|
Parcel
|
Acreage
|
Lib:No:Fol
|
Type
|
| John A. Massey
& wife Eliza JaneMassey, Lambert C. Powell & wife Louisa
Powell, Joshua Morris & wife Rachel Massey, Kendall Massey &
wife Julia Ann P. Massey |
Doctor Hillary Pitts |
Quillens Pasture or Winchester |
84 |
EDM:5:647 |
Deed |
January 10, 1854: John A. Massey
and his wife Eliza Jane Massey, Lambert C. Powell and his wife Louisa,
Joshua Morris and his wife Rachel, her brother Kendall Massey and his
wife Julia Ann P. Massey, all of Worcester County in the State of
Maryland, sell for $1,052.00 to Doctor Hillary Pitts, also of Worcester
County, all that tract which John A. Massey, father of the aforesaid
John, Rachel, Louis and Kendall purchased in his lifetime as referenced
by the deed from Joseph Hamblin to Joseph Quillen dated March 28, 1747,
for one hundred acres and known as Quillen's Pasture, but it contains
only eighty four acres clear of older deeds in part of the same land in
the possession of John M. Taylor (its proper name being Winchester).
Witnesses: Justices of the Peace William D. Pitts and W.R. Hammond;
Edward D. Martin is Worcester County clerk. |
1854/03/11
|
|
Grantor
|
Grantee
|
Parcel
|
Acreage
|
Lib:No:Fol
|
Type
|
Robert S. Henry, Peter C. Powell & Powell
Patty
|
Samuel Massey
|
Town Lot
|
[not stated]
|
EDM:5:660
|
Deed
|
March 11, 1854: Samuel Massey of
Worcester County in the State of Maryland buys for $150.00 from the
Worcester County Commissioners Robert
S. Henry, Peter C. Powell, and Powell Patty, all of Worcester County,
lands which the Commissioners were organized to distribute from the
estate of Walter Gray, consisting of a house and lot lying on the South
East side of the main County Road running through Poplar Town to Snow
Hill, for which Samuel Massey was high bidder in the required public
sale. Witnesses: Witnesses:
Justices of the Peace William D. Pitts and James
F. Mills; Edward D. Martin is Worcester County clerk.
|
1854/10/16
|
|
Grantor
|
Grantee
|
Parcel
|
Acreage
|
Lib:No:Fol
|
Type
|
Henry P. Lewis & wife Sally
|
Julia Ann P. Massey
|
Blackenhurst
|
17.5+
|
EDM:6:194
|
Deed
|
October 16, 1854: Julia Ann P.
Massy (Massey) of Worcester County in the State of Maryland buys for
$250.00 from Henry P. Lewis and his wife Sally Lewis, also of Worcester
County, the 17-1/2+ acre tract called Blackenhurst, lying in Worcester
County and contained within the following metes and bounds: Beginning
at a marked post standing at the mouth of the lane on the County Road
at the South East corner of the lands of Littleton Sturgis's heirs, and
from thence running North forty five degrees West sixty two perches,
thence North eighty two degrees East twenty two perches, thence North
sixty eight degrees East twenty three perches, thence North thirty two
degrees East eleven perches, thence North fifty two degrees East
nineteen perches, thence South eighty three degrees East twenty eight
perches to the County Road leading from Poplar Town to Newark (New
Ark), thence South nineteen and three quarter degrees East twenty two
perches, thence with a right line to the beginning, containing
seventeen and a half acres and thirty five perches. Witness: Justice of
the Peace Joshua Lewis; Edward D. Martin is Worcester County clerk.
|
1855/08/08
|
|
Grantor
|
Grantee
|
Parcel
|
Acreage
|
Lib:No:Fol
|
Type
|
John K. Massey & wife Gertrude E.
|
Kendall Massey
|
[not stated]
|
10
|
EDM:7:62
|
Deed
|
August 8,
1855: Kendall Massey of Worcester County in the State of Maryland buys
for $50.50 from John K. Massey and his wife Gertrude E. Massey, also of
Worcester County, the lot described by the following metes and bounds:
Beginning at Mary Powell's lot and running from thence parallel with
the fence and ditch to the dwelling line of John A. Massey and the
aforesaid John K. Massey, and from thence with a straight line to the
bounder of Buck Ridge (Buckridge) , and from thence by and with the
line of Buckridge on the Easternmost side up to Mary Powell's lot as
aforesaid, supposed to contain ten acres. Witness: Justice of the Peace
James F. Mills; Edward D. Martin is Worcester County clerk.
|
1855/11/05
|
|
Grantor
|
Grantee
|
Parcel
|
Acreage
|
Lib:No:Fol
|
Type
|
Laban J. Taylor & wife Sally S. Taylor
|
James Massey
|
Holly Grove
|
4+
|
EDM:7:64
|
Deed
|
November 5, 1855: James Massey of
Worcester County in the State of Maryland buys for $28.00 from Laban J.
Taylor and his wife Sally S. Taylor, also of Worcester County, the
parcel called Holly Grove surveyed for Powell Patty on September 1,
1768, and contained within the following metes and bounds: Beginning at
a marked sassafras post standing at the end of thirty two and 8/10
poles on the eighth line of the aforesaid tract Holly Grove, and thence
running by and with the same North thirty nine degrees West fifty two
and 2/10 poles (perches) to the end thereof, thence binding on the
North line of said tract South seventy four degrees East forty eight
and 9/10 poles, thence South seventy two degrees West thirty two poles
to the first beginning, containing four acres, three rods (roods) and
twenty four perches. Witness: Justice of the Peace James F. Mills;
Edward D. Martin is Worcester County clerk.
|
1855/11/05
|
|
Grantor
|
Grantee
|
Parcel
|
Acreage
|
Lib:No:Fol
|
Type
|
James Massey and wife Frances
|
Laban J. Taylor and wife Sally S.
|
Holly Grove
|
3+ & 2+
|
EDM:7:65 |
Deed
|
November 5, 1855: James Massey
and his wife Frances Massey of Worcester County in the State of
Maryland sell for $28.00 to Laban J. Taylor and his wife Sally S.
Taylor, also of Worcester County, the two tracts described by the
following metes and bounds: (1) Beginning for the first lot, called
Holly Grove, forty eight and 9/10 poles (perches) on the line of a
tract called Holly Grove surveyed for Powell Patty on September 1,
1768, and thence running by and with the said ninth line South [twenty
or seventy ?] four degrees East nine and 1/10 poles to the end thereof,
thence running the tenth, eleventh, and twelfth lines of said tract
called Holly Grove North seventy four poles, thence South eighty four
degrees East fourteen poles, thence North seventeen degrees East thirty
one poles, thence North eighty three and a half degrees West eleven and
a quarter poles to a ditch, thence running the courses of said ditch
and binding thereon South twenty two degrees West fifty five and a half
poles to the first beginning, containing three acres and fourteen
perches; and (2) Beginning for the second lot, also called Holly Grove,
at the end of the twelfth and beginning of the thirteenth lines of
Eagle Point, and thence South sixty one degrees and fifty two minutes
East twenty eight poles to a white gum [tree], thence South wight and a
half degrees East twenty two poles to the County Road, thence running
up by and with the road and binding [illegible] the three following
courses: North forty four and three quarter degrees West thirteen
poles, then North thirty six and a quarter degrees West ten poles, then
North fifty six degrees West fourteen and 7/10 poles, thence north two
and a half degrees West eleven poles to the first beginning, containing
two and a quarter acres, the said James Massey and his heirs and
assigns to have the privilege of a walk course through the said tracts
to the branch. Witness: Justice of the Peace James F. Mills; Edward D.
Martin is Worcester County clerk.
|
1856/02/23
|
|
Grantor
|
Grantee
|
Parcel
|
Acreage
|
Lib:No:Fol
|
Type
|
Kendall Massey &
John K. Massey & wife Gertrude E. Massey
|
Capt. William Lynch
|
Buckridge & Eagle
Choice and Holly Grove, less 10 acres sold previously
|
159 & 25 -10 = 171
|
EDM:7:209
|
Deed
|
February 23, 1856: Kendal
(Kendall) Massey and John K. Massey and his wife Gertrude E. Massey,
all of Worcester County in the State of Maryland, sell for $1,050.00 to
Captain William Lynch, also of Worcester County, parts of the tracts
called Buck Ridge (Buckridge) and Eagle Choice, lying in Worcester
County and containing one hundred and fifty nine acres and also a part
of the tract called Holly Grove, containing twenty five acres, it being
the same land conveyed to John K. Massey by Kendall Massey by
deed dated April 29, 1848, [and recorded in Liber
EDM No.1, Folio 406].
Excepted is a lot which has been sold to Kendall Massey by John K.
Massey and his wife Gertrude E. Massey by deed dated August 8, 1855,
containing about ten acres [see Liber EDM No.7, Folio 62] making the
new total one hundred and seventy one acres. Witness: Justice of the
Peace James F. Mills; Edward D. Martin is Worcester County clerk.
|
1855/08/25
|
|
Grantor
|
Grantee
|
Parcel
|
Acreage
|
Lib:No:Fol
|
Type
|
| John A. Massey & wife Eliza Jane
|
Milby Griffin |
Buckridge, Pleasant Lot, Penny Street &
Holly Grove |
167
|
EDM:7:287 |
Deed
|
August 25, 1855: John A. Massey
and his wife Eliza Jane Massey, both of Worcester County in the State
of Maryland, sell for $1,200.00 to Milby Griffin the tracts called Buckridge, Pleasant Lot, Penny Street and Holly
Grove, lying in Worcester County in a neck called Muddy Neck adjoining
the lands of Kendall Massey, Senior, on the South and Laban J. Taylor's
lands on the West, and William R,. Pitts lands on the North and Lemuel
Showall on the East, containing one hundred and sixty seven acres in
the whole, more or less, agreeable to a division formerly arranged by
John Massey, Kendall Massey, Senior, and Alexander Massey. Witnesses:
Justice of the Peace William D. Pitts and Peter Collier; Edward D.
Martin is Worcester County clerk.
|
1856/05/27
|
|
Grantor
|
Grantee
|
Parcel
|
Acreage
|
Lib:No:Fol
|
Type
|
Kendall Massey
|
Mary Powell
|
Buckridge
|
4
|
EDM:7:368
|
Deed
|
May 27, 1856: Kendall Massey of
Worcester County in the State of Maryland sells for $40.00 to Mary
Powell, wife of Ananias Powell, also of Worcester County, all that
parcel where Ananias Powell formerly lived and which is enclosed and
which said lot was excepted in the deed given to John K. Massey by the
said Kendall Massey, situated and lying in and containing about four
acres, be it the same called Buck Ridge (Buckridge). Witness: Justice
of the Peace James F. Mills; Edward D. Martin is Worcester County clerk.
|
1856/10/03
|
|
Grantor
|
Grantee
|
Parcel
|
Acreage
|
Lib:No:Fol
|
Type
|
| John A. Massey & wife Eliza Jane Massey and
John R. Pitts & wife Ann Pitts |
John M. Taylor
|
Confirmation
|
585
|
JAP:1:103 |
Deed
|
October 3, 1856: John A. Massey and his wife Eliza Jane Massey and John R. Pitts & wife Ann Pitts, all
of Worcester County in the State of Maryland, sell
for $3,000.00 to John M. Taylor of Philadelphia in the State of
Pennsylvania, all their right in a tract in Worcester County called
Confirmation, containing five hundred and eighty five acres and made up
of several tracts and parts of tracts formerly held by Sarah Taylor of
Worcester County and by her resurvey thrown into one tract of land by a
patent granted unto her on March 25, 1836, and recorded as Patent Certificate No.604. Witnesses:
Justice of the Peace George A. Parker, Littleton D. Powell, and Joshua
Morris; John A. Purnell is Worcester County clerk.
|
1857/08/21
|
|
Grantor
|
Grantee
|
Parcel
|
Acreage
|
Lib:No:Fol
|
Type
|
Kendall Massey
|
John M. Taylor
|
slave William J. Kenny
|
[none]
|
JAP:1:391
|
Bill of Sale
|
August 21, 1857: Kendal (Kendall)
Massey of Worcester County in the State of Maryland sells for $150.00
to John M. Taylor, also of Worcester County, his slave named William J.
Kenny, about five years old, light complexion, about three feet high.
Witnesses: B. Jones Taylor and Justice of the Peace George A. Parker;
John A. Purnell is Worcester County clerk.
|
1858/07/15
|
|
Grantor
|
Grantee
|
Parcel
|
Acreage
|
Lib:No:Fol
|
Type
|
William N. Massey & wife Mary Grace
|
George W. Bishop
|
Cart Wheel
|
1
|
WET:1:219
|
Deed
|
July 15, 1858: William N. Massey
and his wife Mary Grace Massey, of Worcester County in the SDtate of
Maryland, sell for $400.00 to George W. Bishop, also of Worcester
County, a house and lot in the Village of Lindseyville, being a part of
the tract called Cart Wheel, containing about one acre. Witnesses:
Justice of the Peace Samuel N. Payne and John M. Pruitt; W.E. Timmons
is Worcester County clerk.
|
1859/01/01
|
|
Grantor
|
Grantee
|
Parcel
|
Acreage
|
Lib:No:Fol
|
Type
|
| Zadok P. Henry, Thomas Timmons, Lemuel Showell
and Curtis M. Jacobs |
Samuel Massey |
Lot No.2 |
6.5 |
WET:1:359 |
Deed |
January 1, 1859: Samuel Massey of
Worcester County in the State of Maryland buys for $441.00 from the
Commissioners Zadok P. Henry, Thomas
Timmons, Lemuel Showell, Curtis N. Jacobs, and James F. Mills organized
to respond to the petition of Lemuel Hall and Sarah Hall to evaluate,
divide, and sell the real estate of Elizabeth White, late of Worcester
County, eventually consisting of Lot No.2, for which Samuel Massey was
the high bidder at the required public sale. Lot No.2 is situated in
the Town of Berlin, and had been purchased by Elizabeth White during
her lifetime from Thomas Bolds and adjoins the lands of Doctor James T.
Hammond, Parker C. Wharton,, and others, and contains six and a half
acres. Witness: Justice of the Peace George A. Parker; William E.
Timmons is Worcester County clerk. |
1860/01/16
|
|
Grantor
|
Grantee
|
Parcel
|
Acreage
|
Lib:No:Fol
|
Type
|
Kendall Massey
|
Joseph L. Godfrey
|
slave George Washington
|
[none]
|
WET:2:29
|
Receipt
|
January 16, 1860: Kendal (Kendall) Massey of Worcester County in the
State of Maryland sells for $200.00 to Joseph L. Godfrey, his slave
George Washington, age about six years. Witness: Elijah Carey; William
E. Timmons is Worcester County clerk.
|
1861/01/08
|
|
Grantor
|
Grantee
|
Parcel
|
Acreage
|
Lib:No:Fol
|
Type
|
Henry P. Mumford
|
Samuel Massey
|
slave Laura Ann
|
[none]
|
WET:2:409
|
Bill of Sale
|
January 8, 1861: Samuel Massey of Worcester County in the State of
Maryland buys for $350.00 from Henry P. Mumford, also of Worcester
County, the slave Laura Ann. Witness: Justice of the Peace George A.
Parker; William E. Timmons is Worcester County clerk.
|
1861/10/13
|
|
Grantor
|
Grantee
|
Parcel
|
Acreage
|
Lib:No:Fol
|
Type
|
Henny Massey
|
Robert J. Henry
|
Town lot
|
3.75
|
WET:3:92
|
Mortgage to Secure a Debt
|
October 13, 1861: Henny Massey
mortgages her house and l3-1/2 acre lot at an undisclosed location for
$90.00 to Robert J. Henry, said mortgage to become null and void if she
should repay the ninety dollars to Robert J. Henry on or before October
12, 1862. Witness: Justice of the Peace William D. Pitts; William E.
Timmons is Worcester County clerk.
|
1861/11/12
|
|
Grantor
|
Grantee
|
Parcel
|
Acreage
|
Lib:No:Fol
|
Type
|
Samuel Massey & Thomas Quillen
|
William S. Clifton
|
Town lot
|
[not stated]
|
WET:3:106
|
Bond
|
November 12, 1861: Samuel Massey
and Thomas Quillen execute a bond of conveyance to William S. Clifton
in the amount of $1,100.00 to secure their conveyance of a parcel in
the Town of Berlin to Mr. Clifton which they had purchased from Edgar
H. Davis, who in turn had purchased the parcel from the trustee of
Sewell T. Collins, deceased, located on the Main Street in Berlin
between the lots of Isaac S. Jones on the South side, and the lot of
William D. Potts and Solomon Carey on the South side and now rented to
George Harmouson, for which William S. Clifton has paid one hundred and
fifty dollars earnest money and committed himself to pay an
additional four hundred dollars in annual payments of one hundred
dollars on November 5, 1862, with interest on four hundred dollars, one
hundred dollars of November 5, 1863, with interest on three hundred
dollars, and so on. Should that take place accordingly, then Mssrs.
Massey and Quillen will deliver a deed of conveyance for the property
covering all but the dower right of Mrs. Henrietta Collins and will
deliver the right to collect rent and profits of the premises to Mr.
Clifton. Witness: George A. Parker; William E. Timmons is Worcester
County clerk.
|
1862/05/10
|
|
Grantor
|
Grantee
|
Parcel
|
Acreage
|
Lib:No:Fol
|
Type
|
| William D.
Pitts, trustee |
Samuel Massey & Thomas Quillen |
Town lot
|
236 square feet
|
WET:3:196
|
Deed
|
May 10,
1862: Samuel Massey and Thomas Quillen buy for an undisclosed amount
from William D. Pitts, trustee appointed to sell the real estate
involved in the case of Stephen B. Collins vs. William D. Pitts, Hennie
D. Collins, Sarah L.M. Ross, Alongo P. Collins and Stephen E. Collins,
the parcel platted by Powell Patty as follows: Beginning at a post at
the end of the first course of Lot No.3 on Main Street, then South
twenty four and a half degrees East thirty two feet, to a stob [sic] at
Figure 4, then across South sixty five and a half degrees West about
sixty three feet to the Figure 6 on the side of Commerce Street, thence
along said street North fifty nine and a quarter degrees [East or West
?] about thirty nine feet to a post at Figure 7, it being at the end of
the second line of the third lot, then reversing said line North sixty
five and a half degrees [East or West ?] about eighty six feet to the
first beginning, containing two hundred and thirty six square feet,
which consitutes all the land purchased by Sewell T. Collins from James
Dirickson. Excepted is the dower right of the widow of Sewell T.
Collins. Witness: Justice of the Peace James M. Bratten; William E.
Timmons is Worcester County clerk.
|
1862/07/08
|
|
Grantor
|
Grantee
|
Parcel
|
Acreage
|
Lib:No:Fol
|
Type
|
John R. Franklin & Ephraim K. Wilson
|
Samuel Massey
|
Carragoereshe
|
[not stated]
|
WET:3:224
|
Deed
|
July 8, 1862: Samuel Massey of
Worcester County in the State of Maryland buys for an undisclosed
amount from the trustees John R.
Franklin and Ephraim K. Wilson, appointed in the case of George Bishop against
John C. Jones, Robert W. Jones, Mary E. Jones, Mary Karen Selby, John
W. Selby, Junior, Isaac Simeon Selby, Edward Taylor, Major G. Holland,
William Payton & his wife Holly Payton, John R. Franklin, executor
of Mary Ann Holland, deceased, John W. Jones and Mary C. Jones, to sell
the real estate which is enclosed within the following metes and
bounds: Beginning at the North corner of a lot formerly belonging to
John Hutchinson and now to Silas Conklin near the South West edge of
the Matapory [sic] Public Road, and thence running South Westerly by
and with the back line of said lot until it intersects the line of a
tract called Amsterdam, thence running South Westerly to the first
bounder of Amsterdam, thence Westerly until it strikes the lands
formerly belonging to Colonel Giles Jones and now to Henry Sanack,
thence South Westerly to a pine sapling standing at the South corner of
the land belonging formerly to Eliakin Jones and now to henry Jones and
near the Great Branch and running thence North Easterly a straight
course to a red oak at the mouth of a lane that divides said last
mentioned lands from the lands now being described, and running from
said red oak or the bounder where said red oak [illegible] Easterly by
the County Road to be the beginning and whereon we, the trustees, have
sold to Samuel Massey all that part of said land which lies to the
Westward of the fence, commencing at the Easternmost corner of the
Episcopal Church Yard and thence running in a Southerly direction,
first by and with said church yard and then across the land above
bounded and described and making the division line between the land
sold by us to the said Massey and the house and lot by Mrs. Mary Ann
Holland devised to her nephew John W. Jones and by us sold to William
Veasey and now the property of Stephen E. Mason, the lands sold by us
to the said Massey lying in Worcester County near Sandy Hill and being
the same land devised by the second item of the Last Will and Testament
of the said Mary Ann Holland to her nephew John B. Jones with a
contingent remainder over to her niece Mary Elizabeth Jones. The
present parcel is called Carragoereshe [sic]. Witness: Justice of the
Peace John B. Nock; William E. Timmons is Worcester County clerk.
|
1862/11/11
|
|
Grantor
|
Grantee
|
Parcel
|
Acreage
|
Lib:No:Fol
|
Type
|
Major Hastings
|
Samuel Massey
|
Goods and chattels
|
[none]
|
WET:3:294
|
Bill of Sale
|
November 11, 1862: Samuel Massey
of Worcester County in the State of Maryland buys for $160.00 from
Major Hastings, also of Worcester County, the following goods and
chattels: Corn in the field belonging to James B. Dirickson in
Synapuxent Neck in Worcester County, seven stacks of fodder on the same
land, thirteen stacks of hay on the land belonging to Catharine R.Y.
Dirickson in Synapuxent Neck, seven red heifers with white backs, six
sheep, six hogs, one sow and seven shoats, two iron harrows, seven
plows, five feather beds & covering for the same, eight chairs, two
tables, five bedsteads, household and kitchen furniture, four hoes, two
shovels, three beehives, ... Witness: Justice of the Peace William D.
Pitts; William E. Timmons is Worcester County clerk.
|
1863/01/06
|
|
Grantor
|
Grantee
|
Parcel
|
Acreage
|
Lib:No:Fol
|
Type
|
Samuel I. Massey
|
James Massey |
Goods & chattels
|
[none]
|
WET:3:330
|
Agreement
|
January 6, 1863: James Massey and
Samuel I. Massey formally agree as follows: Samuel I. Massey will give
to James Massey one half of the stock and farming utensils and one half
of all the crops raised on the farm; and Samuel I. Massey fully binds
himself to pay one half of the farm expenses and assist in all the
usual labors of the farm. Witness: J.M. Taylor; William E. Timmons is
Worcester county clerk.
|
1863/01/28
|
|
Grantor
|
Grantee
|
Parcel
|
Acreage
|
Lib:No:Fol
|
Type
|
Samuel Massey
|
Henry D.Tingle
|
[not named]
|
15+
|
WET:3:393
|
Deed
|
January 28, 1863: Samuel Massey
of Worcester County in the State of Maryland sells for $1,600.00 to
Henry D. Tingle all that parcel lying on the North side of the road
leading from Buckingham Grave Yard to the farm of John E.N. Marshall
and lying on the South side of and adjoining the house and lot occupied
by Mrs. Maria Purnell, which said tract is part of a parcel purchased
by the said Samuel Massey from Thomas Timmons and can be more
particularly described as follows: Beginning at a stone on the East
side of the road leading from the Town of Berlin towards John E.N.
Marshall's farm and Poplar Ridge and thence along the East side of said
road South thirty nine degrees West seventy eight and 8/100 poles
(perches) to where said road intersects the road leading from
Buckingham Grave Yard to John E.N. Marshall's farm and Poplar Ridge,
thence on the North side of the last named road South fifty degrees
West twenty eight poles to a notched post, thence leaving said road
North forty one and a quarter degrees East forty six and 6/10 poles to
a point where a cross ditch intersects the ditch that leads along the
East side of this and the following lines: Thence North fifty six and a
half degrees East thirty poles until it intersects John Powell's line,
thence North forty six and a half degrees West two and 32/100 poles to
a small bur oak, thence North thirty five and a half degrees East four
poles to intersect Mrs. Maria Powell's lot at a stone in the South East
corner of said lot, thence along with said Mrs. Powell's lot North
fifty one and a quarter degrees West thirty six and 68/100 poles to the
stone at the first beginning, containing fifteen acres, one rood, and
thirty four poles. Witness: John R. Coard; William E. Timmons is
Worcester County clerk.
|
1863/04/21
|
|
Grantor
|
Grantee
|
Parcel
|
Acreage
|
Lib:No:Fol
|
Type
|
Laban J. Taylor & wife Sally
|
William S. Massey
|
Hudsons Endeavor
|
33
|
WET:3:399
|
Deed
|
April 21, 1863: William S. Massey
of Worcester County in the State of Maryland buys for $264.00 from
Laban J. Taylor and his wife Sally Taylor, also of Worcester county,
the tract of land called Hudson's Endeavor that is enclosed within the
following metes and bounds: Beginning at a white oak stump and stone
along the first bounder of Farrell's Folly, and from thence running
North forty five degrees West one hundred and forty poles (perches),
thence South seventy six degrees East forty eight poles to intersect
the sixth course of Poplar Neck thence South forty five degrees West
twelve poles to the end of the said course, thence South sixty eight
degrees East eighty eight poles to a post, thence South thirty four
degrees East forty four poles, thence South thirteen and a half degrees
West forty six poles to a post, thence North forty five degrees West
fifty poles to the first beginning, containing thirty three acres.
Witness: Justice of the Peace William D. Pitts; William E. Timmons is
Worcester County clerk.
|
1863/07/27
|
|
Grantor
|
Grantee
|
Parcel
|
Acreage
|
Lib:No:Fol
|
Type
|
Major Hastings
|
Samuel Massey
|
Goods and chattels
|
[none]
|
WET:3:473
|
Bill of Sale
|
July 27, 1863: Samuel Massey of
Worcester County in the State of Maryland buys for $94.37 from Major
Hastings, also of Worcester County, the following goods and chattels:
The crop of corn growing on the property where Major Hastings now
lives, and also all Major Hastings' interest in a lot of wheat and
oats. Witness: Justice of the Peace William D. Pitts; William E.
Timmons is Worcester County clerk.
|
1864/01/12
|
|
Grantor
|
Grantee
|
Parcel
|
Acreage
|
Lib:No:Fol
|
Type
|
| Kendall Massey |
Joseph Godfrey |
slaves Thomas Potts, George & Edward
|
[none] |
GHR:1:1 |
Bill of Sale |
January 12, 1864: Kendal
(Kendall) Massey of Worcester County in the State of Maryland sells for
$50.00 to Joseph Godfrey his slaves Thomas Potts, age twenty years,
George, age twenty three, and Edward, age eighteen. Witness: Justice of
the Peace L.D. Powell; George H. Richardson is Worcester County clerk. |
1863/12/18
|
|
Grantor
|
Grantee
|
Parcel
|
Acreage
|
Lib:No:Fol
|
Type
|
Nancy C. Massey
|
Mary Ann Massey
|
[not named]
|
0.5
|
GHR:1:33
|
Deed
|
December
18, 1863: Nancy C. Massy (Massey) of Worcester County in the State of
Maryland sells for $50.00 to Mary Ann Massy (Massey), also of Worcester
County, all the land that was given to her by the Will of Purnell
Massey, deceased, lying near the lands of Perry Rodney & John S.
Purnell of Worcester County, containing half an acre. Witness: Justice
of the Peace L.D. Powell; George H.
Richardson is Worcester County clerk. |
1864/05/03
|
|
Grantor
|
Grantee
|
Parcel
|
Acreage
|
Lib:No:Fol
|
Type
|
Nancy C. Massey
|
Littleton Massey
|
[none]
|
[none]
|
GHR:1:180
|
Manumission
|
May 3, 1864: Nancey C. Massey of
Worcester County in the State of Maryland manumits her slave Littleton
Massey, who is about to enlist in the Regiment of Colored Troops in the
service of the United States. Witnesses: Justice of the Peace L.D.
Powell and James Massey; George H. Richardson is Worcester County clerk. |
1864/05/03
|
|
Grantor
|
Grantee
|
Parcel
|
Acreage
|
Lib:No:Fol
|
Type
|
Joseph P. Godfrey
|
Thomas P. Massey
|
[none]
|
[none]
|
GHR:1:184
|
Manumission
|
May 3, 1864: Joseph P. Godfrey of
Worcester County in the State of Maryland, in consideration of his
commitment to enlist in the Regiment of Colored Troops, manumits his
slave Thomas P. Massey. Witnesses: Justice of the Peace L.D. Powell and
William B. Smith; George H. Richardson is Worcester County clerk.
|
1864/05/03
|
|
Grantor
|
Grantee
|
Parcel
|
Acreage
|
Lib:No:Fol
|
Type
|
Joseph P. Godfrey
|
Edward Massey
|
[none]
|
[none]
|
GHR:1:184
|
Manumission
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May
3, 1864: Joseph P. Godfrey of Worcester County in the State of
Maryland, in consideration of his commitment to enlist in the Regiment
of Colored Troops, manumits his slave Edward Massey. Witnesses: Justice
of the Peace L.D. Powell and William B. Smith; George H. Richardson is
Worcester County clerk. |
1864/05/03
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Grantor
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Grantee
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Parcel
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Acreage
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Lib:No:Fol
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Type
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Joseph P. Godfrey
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George Massey
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[none]
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[none]
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GHR:1:185
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Manumission
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May
3, 1864: Joseph P. Godfrey of Worcester County in the State of
Maryland, in consideration of his commitment to enlist in the Regiment
of Colored Troops, manumits his slave George Massey. Witnesses: Justice
of the Peace L.D. Powell and William B. Smith; George H. Richardson is
Worcester County clerk. |
1864/05/14
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Grantor
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Grantee
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Parcel
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Acreage
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Lib:No:Fol
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Type
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Levi Quillen & wife Hetty Ann Quillen
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Mary Ann Massey
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[not named]
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16.5
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GHR:1:218
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Deed
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May 14, 1864: Mary Ann Massey
buys for $165.00 from Levi Quillen and his wife Hetty Ann Quillen, of
Worcester County in the State of Maryland, all that 16-1/2 acre tract
which was sold by John Rodgers and his wife Sarah E. Rodgers to Levi
Quillen by the deed dated August 9, 1857, it being the same land that
was conveyed to Sarah E. Davis, afterward Sarah E. Rogers, by Levi
Bruner by deed dated November 12, 1823, called Farrills Folly, lying on
the North and West side of the County Road leading from Purnell
Massey's gate to Crippen's Bridge and which is enclosed within the
following metes and bounds: Beginning on the West side of the aforesaid
County Road at a point where the closing line of Farrills Folly crosses
said road which said point is eighty six poles (perches) from the first
boundary of said Farrills Folly, and thence crossing the closing line
of said tract North forty five degrees West fifty seven poles to a
point a little over a ditch near a small cedar to a line of the tract
called The Fragment, thence along the line of said tract South sixteen
degrees West sixty seven poles to the middle of a ditch, which said
ditch is a line between said Quillen and Phillip Hudsons land, thence
doen the middle of said ditch, South forty five degrees East twenty
eight and a quarter poles to the West side of the aforesaid County Road
where it crosses said ditch and to within fifteen links (15/25 perch)
of a stone let in the ground on the North bank of said ditch, thence
along the West side of the aforesaid County Road as follows: (these
courses run with the same variation as the rest of the tract) North
forty eight and a quarter degrees East twenty poles, then North forty
two and a quarter degrees East twenty poles, then North thirty five
degrees East seventeen and 88/100 poles to the beginning, containing
sixteen and a half acres; [however] Levi Quillen reserves for his own
use a ditch or water course where it now lies along the line of Phillip
Hudson's field, from the aforesaid County Road to the tract called The
Fragment, together with the privilege of of digging said ditch to a
sufficient depth and width to suit the water required to pass through
it, and to throw the dirt therefrom onto the land conveyed by this
deed; and Mary Ann Massey covenants that she will never by word or deed
or otherwise oppose the cutting of said ditch or the passage of water
through it. Witness: Justice of the Peace L.D. Powell; George H.
Richardson is Worcester County clerk.
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1864/05/25
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Grantor
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Grantee
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Parcel
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Acreage
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Lib:No:Fol
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Type
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Samuel Massey
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Henry Massey
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[none]
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[none]
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GHR:1:240
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Manumission
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May 25, 1864: Samuel Massey of
Worcester County in the State of Maryland, in consideration of his
enlistment in the 9th Regiment of Colored Troops in the service of the
United States of America, manumits his slave Henry Massey. Witnesses:
Justice of the Peace L.D. Powell and Joseph Massey; George H.
Richardson is Worcester County clerk.
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1864/06/29
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Grantor
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Grantee
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Parcel
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Acreage
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Lib:No:Fol
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Type
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Samuel Massey
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Thomas Mason
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[not named]
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3.25
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GHR:1:301
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Deed
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June 29, 1864: Samuel Massey of Worcester County in the State
of Maryland sells for $162.50 to Thomas Mason the following 3-1/4 acre
tract lying in the First Election District of Worcester County that is
described by the following metes and bounds: Beginning at a persimmon
stake on the East corner of the divisional line [illegible] of N. Benum
opposite the Methodist Church yard on the South side of the public road
leading from Sandy Hill to Jap [sic] Town and running by and with said
road eighty yards to a pine stake, thence in a South West direction one
hundred and fifty six and a half yards to a sassafras stake on the big
ditch, thence by and with said ditch in a South Easterly direction one
hundred and two yards to the said N. Benum's divisional line fence,
then by and with said fence in a North East direction one hundred and
ninety yards to the place of beginning, containing three and a quarter
acres. Witness: Justice of the Peace M.G. Holland; George H. Richardson
is Worcester County clerk.
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1864/10/22
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Grantor
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Grantee
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Parcel
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Acreage
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Lib:No:Fol
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Type
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Samuel Massey
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Isaac Tarr
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[not named]
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6.5
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GHR:1:379
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Deed
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October 22, 1864: Samuel Massey
sells for $500.00 to Isaac Tarr, all that 6-1/2 acre tract lying in the
Town of Berlin which was bought by Samuel Massey from Zadok P. Henry,
Curtis W. Jacobs, Thomas Timmons, and others, Commissioned to sell the
real estate of Elizabeth White, deceased, by deed recorded in Liber WET No.1, Folio 359 of Worcester County,
said land adjoining the lands of Doctor John T. Hammond, Levin L.
Dirickson and others, containing six and a half acres. Witness:
Littleton D. Powell; George H. Richardson is Worcester County clerk.
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1864/11/15
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Grantor
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Grantee
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Parcel
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Acreage
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Lib:No:Fol
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Type
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Hillary R. Pitts, executor
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Edward Massey
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[none]
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[none]
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GHR:1:432
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Manumission
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November 15, 1864: Hillery R.
Pitts, executor of the estate of Kendall Massey, deceased, in
consideration of his enlistment on December 24,1863, in the 9th
Regiment of Colored Troops in service of the United States of America,
manumits Edward Massey. Witnesses: Justice of the peace L.D. Powell and
William P. Smith; George H. Richardson is Worcester County clerk.
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1864/11/15
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Grantor
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Grantee
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Parcel
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Acreage
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Lib:No:Fol
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Type
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| Hillary R. Pitts, executor |
Thomas Massey
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[none]
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[none]
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GHR:1:432
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Manumission
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November 15, 1864: Hillery R.
Pitts, executor of the estate of Kendall Massey, deceased, in
consideration of his enlistment on November 10,1863, in the 9th
Regiment of Colored Troops in service of the United States of America,
manumits Thomas Massey. Witnesses: Justice of the peace L.D. Powell and
William P. Smith; George H. Richardson is Worcester County clerk. |
1864/11/15
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Grantor
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Grantee
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Parcel
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Acreage
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Lib:No:Fol
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Type
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| H.R. Pitts, executor |
George Massey
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[none]
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[none]
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GHR:1:433
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Manumission
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November 15, 1864: Hillery R.
Pitts, executor of the estate of Kendall Massey, deceased, in
consideration of his enlistment on November 18,1863, in the 9th
Regiment of Colored Troops in service of the United States of America,
manumits George Massey. Witnesses: Justice of the peace L.D. Powell and
William P. Smith; George H. Richardson is Worcester County clerk. |
1864/03/25
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Grantor
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Grantee
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Parcel
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Acreage
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Lib:No:Fol
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Type
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| Samuel Massey and Thomas N. Quillen & wife
Rachel A. Quillen |
William S. Clifton |
Town lot |
237 |
GHR:1:638 |
Deed |
March 25, 1864: Samuel Massey and Thomas N. Quillen and his
wife Rachel A. Quillen, all of Worcester County in the State of
Maryland, sell for $550.00 to William S. Clifton, also of Worcester
County, all that 237 square foot tract located in the Town of Berlin in
Worcester County, which the said Massey and Quillen bought from William
D. Pitts, trustee for the real estate of Sewell T. Collins, deceased,
by deed dated May 12, 1862, and recorded in Liber
WET No.3, Folio 196, containing two hundred and thirty seven square
feet. Witness: Justice of the Peace L.D. Powell; George H. Richardson
is Worcester County clerk. |
1865/07/21
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Grantor
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Grantee
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Parcel
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Acreage
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Lib:No:Fol
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Type
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| William L. Richards & wife Elizabeth S.
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Charlotte Massey |
Wood Yard & Addition to Wood Yard
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100 |
GHR:1:646 |
Deed |
July 21, 1865: Charlotte Massey,
wife of Rufus Massey, buys for $800.00 from William S. Richards and his
wife Elizabeth S. Richards, both of Worcester County in the State of
Maryland, all the 100 acres of the tracts called Wood Yard and Addition
to Wood Yard, and adjoining lands lying in Worcester County and in the
possession of said William &
Elizabeth Richards. Witness: John H. Hutchisson and Justice of the
Peace George H. Bowden; George H. Richardson is Worcester County clerk. |
1865/08/04
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Grantor
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Grantee
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Parcel
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Acreage
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Lib:No:Fol
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Type
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James Massey & wife Francis Massey
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John M. Taylor
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Hudsons Venture
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<1
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GHR:1:659
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Deed
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August 4, 1865: James Massey and his wife Francis Massey, both
of Worcester County in the State of maryland, sell for $5.00 to John M.
Taylor, also of Worcester County, all that small parcel, part of
Hudson's Venture, described by the following metes and bounds:
Beginning at a stone set up in the ground by the side of the lot
[illegible] known as the Williams Lot, and thence running North seventy
two and a half degrees West sixteen and 8/10 poles (perches) to the
middle of the County Road, thence fifty degrees East eighteen and 6/10
poles by and with said road and in its middle, thence North fourteen
and a half degrees East seven and 1/10 poles to the beginning,
containing one rood and nineteen perches. Hudson's Venture was patented
by John Hudson on November 28, 1702. Witness: Justice of the Peace L.D.
Powell; George H. Richardson is Worcester County clerk.
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1863/11/14
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Grantor
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Grantee
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Parcel
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Acreage
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Lib:No:Fol
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Type
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Joseph Bunting
& wife Catharine
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Daniel A. Massey
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Goods & chattels
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[none]
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GHR:2:55
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Bill of Sale
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November
14, 1863: Daniel A. Massey purchases the following goods and chattels
for $772.82 from Joseph Bunting and his wife Catharine
Bunting: One sorrel mare about fifteen years old, one bay mare aged
sixteen years, one sorrel mare aged six years, two fishing boats &
oars, fishing seine & rope, about two hundred bushels of corn in
the crib where I reside, twelve stacks of fodder, three stacks of hay,
thirty bushels of oats, one red heifer, one black bull yearling, one
pied cow & calf, one red cow, one mixed cold cow, one yoke red
& brindle steer yearlings, one yoke red & brindle steers, forty
head of sheep & lambs, thirty head of hogs, fifty head of geese,
one hundred chickens, eighteen chicks, fifteen guinea fowl, four plows,
three harrows, one drag & roller, one wagon, one small wagon, three
sets harness & chains, three sets rope traces, one cart body,
tongue & axletree, tables, chairs, in short, all other household
& kitchen furniture and personal property of every description on
the premises where I reside, in trust to hold the same for the sale and
separate use, or to any other person whom she may direct. This, in
response to the mortgage which Joseph Bunting and his wife Catharine
executed to Lemuel Showell and William B. White conveying to them for
$772.82, a debt due by Joseph Bunting to Lemuel and William, wherein
the real estate in the mortgage actually belonged to Catharine Bunting,
who nevertheless united with Joseph Bunting in the said deed, is to
reimburse Catharine Bunting for the application of her property to the
payment of the said debt. Witness: Justice of the Peace John Witherson;
George H. Richardson is Worcester County clerk.
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1866/04/16
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Grantor
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Grantee
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Parcel
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Acreage
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Lib:No:Fol
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Type
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Daniel A. Massey
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Catharine Bunting
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Goods & chattels
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[none]
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GHR:2:118
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Bill of Sale
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April 16, 1866: Daniel A. Massey
returns to Catherine Bunting the goods and chattels which her [then?]
husband Joseph Bunting sold to Daniel A. Massey by bill of sale
recorded in Liber GHR No.2, Folio 55, and
of which she now requests of Daniel A. Massey their return. [The amount
of the consideration is not stated - GL,III,ed.] Witness: Justice of
the Peace L.D. Powell; George H. Richardson is Worcester County clerk.
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1866/04/16
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Grantor
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Grantee
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Parcel
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Acreage
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Lib:No:Fol
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Type
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Joseph Bunting
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Daniel A. Massey
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Goods & chattels
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[none]
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GHR:2:119
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Bill of Sale
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April 16, 1866: Daniel A. Massey purchases the following goods
and chattels for $772.82 from Joseph Bunting and his wife
Catharine Bunting: One sorrel mare about fifteen years old, one bay
mare aged sixteen years, one sorrel mare aged six years, one yoke of
work oxen
red & white, one yoke of oxen about six years old, one read &
the other white, one pied cow, one black cow, two pied heifers, two
bull yearlings, one fishing boats & oars, fishing seine & rope,
twelve stacks of fodder, about two hundred bushels of corn in the crib
where I reside, three stacks of hay, thirty bushels of oats, one pied
cow & calf, one red cow, one mixed cold cow, one yoke red &
brindle steers, forty head of sheep & lambs, thirty head of hogs,
fifty head of geese, one hundred chickens, eighteen ducks, fifteen
guinea fowl, four plows, three harrows, one drag & roller, one
wagon, three sets harness & chains, three sets rope traces, one
cart body, tongue & axletree, tables, chairs, in short, all other
household & kitchen furniture and personal property of every
description on the premises where I reside, in trust to hold the same
for the sale and separate use of Catharine Bunting, or to any other
person whom she may direct. This, in response to the mortgage which
Joseph Bunting and his wife Catharine executed on November 14, 1863, to
Lemuel Showell and William B. White conveying to them for $772.82, a
debt due by Joseph Bunting to Lemuel and William, wherein the real
estate in the mortgage actually belonged to Catharine Bunting, who
nevertheless united with Joseph Bunting in the said deed, is to
reimburse Catharine Bunting for the application of her property to the
payment of the said debt. Witness: Justice of the Peace L.D. Powell;
George H. Richardson is Worcester County clerk. [This is not quite the
same list as recorded in Liber GHR No.2, Folio 55, but
I do not understand why Daniel A. Massey appears to have bought the
same goods and chattels twice after having returned them in the interim
... GL,III, ed.]
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1866/12/14
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Grantor
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Grantee
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Parcel
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Acreage
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Lib:No:Fol
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Type
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John H. Massey
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Rufus Massey
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Goods & chattels
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[none]
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GHR:2:462
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Mortgage to Secure a Debt
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December 14, 1866: John H. Massey
of Worcester County in the State of Maryland sells for $186.00 to Rufus
R. Massey the following goods and chattels in order to secure his debt
to Rufus of the same amount: One sorrel mare about five years old, one
cow & calf, one yoke of oxen, two side boards, and one bed &
furniture, provided that if John H. Massey should pay the one hundred
and sixty eight dollars to Rufus Massey on or before the first day of
January, 1868, with the interest thereon, then these presents to be
void. Witness: Justice of the Peace Daniel P. Russell; George H.
Richardson is Worcester County clerk. Underneath is the notation: I
hereby release the above mortgage and bill of sale. [signed] Rufus
Massey, July 24, 1871.
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1867/08/16
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Grantor
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Grantee
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Parcel
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Acreage
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Lib:No:Fol
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Type
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Benjamin Massey, free Black
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Cyrus L. Williams
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Goods & chattels
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[none]
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GHR:2:786
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Bill of Sale
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August 16, 1867: Benjamin Massey
of Worcester County in the State of Maryland [a freed slave] sells for
$97.00 to Cyrus L. Williams, also of Worcester County, the following
goods and chattels: One yoke of young steers, one cow & calf, one
heifer yearling, and one crop of corn in the field. Witness: Justice of
the Peace John R. Coarse; George H. Richardson is Worcester County
clerk.
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1867/10/05
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Grantor
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Grantee
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Parcel
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Acreage
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Lib:No:Fol
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Type
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William S. Massey & wife Mary Ann
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Francis E. Fisher
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[not named]
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0.5
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GHR:3:33
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Deed
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October 5, 1867: William S.
Massey and his wife Mary Ann Massey of Worcester County in the State of
Maryland sell for $62.50 to Francis E. Fisher, also of Worcester
County, all the land that William S. Massey bought from Nancy C.
Massey, given to her by the Will of Purnell Massey, deceased, lying
near the lands of Perry Rodney and John S. Purnell of Worcester county,
containing half an acre, by deed from Nancy C. Massey to Mary Ann
Massey dated December 18, 1863, [and recorded in Liber
GHR No.1,
Folio 33] Witness: |
1868/03/10
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Grantor
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Grantee
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Parcel
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Acreage
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Lib:No:Fol
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Type
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William S. Massey & wife Mary Ann
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James Robins Bunting
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Goods & chattels
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[none]
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GHR:3:211
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Bill of Sale to Secure a Debt
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March 10, 1868: William S. Massey
and his wife Mary Ann Massey, both of Worcester County in the State of
Maryland, in order to secure a debt of $180.00, sell to their creditor
James Robins Bunting, the following goods and chattels: One sorrel
horse, blaze face and one Morgan horse, provided that if the said James
Robins Bunting should pay to the said William S. Massey the sum of one
hundred and eighty dollars and legal interest thereon on or before the
first day of October, 1869, then these presents shall be void. Witness:
Justice of the Peace James Brittingham; J.S. Matthews is Worcester
County clerk.
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1700/01/01
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Grantor
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Grantee
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Parcel
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Acreage
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Lib:No:Fol
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Type
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1700/01/01
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Grantor
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Grantee
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Parcel
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Acreage
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Lib:No:Fol
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