| Section VI - Massey Data Bank | One Maryland Massey Family by George
Langford, Jr. 1901-1996 ©Cullen G. Langford and George Langford, III, 2010 |
Massey records in the Grantee/Grantor Index Files
for Free Gift, Chance & Chester Grove in Kent County, Maryland
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Index |
Year |
Grantor |
Grantee |
Parcel |
Acreage |
Lib:No:Fol |
Link |
Abstract |
| ... |
1837 |
Philip B. Travilla | William F. Smith (Smyth) | Free Gift; Chance and Chester Grove; and Partnership | 344 |
JNG:5:55 |
Deed |
July
25, 1837: Philip B. Travilla, formerly Sheriff of Kent County in the
State of Maryland, sells for $5.00 and the assumption of various damages
and costs to William F. Smith (Smyth), also of Kent County, the tracts
called Free Gift; Chance and Chester Grove; and Partnership, totaling 344 acres, in order to satisfy a writ of fieri facias
issued for the plaintiffs Presby Spruance, Enoch Spruance, Matthias
George, and Benjamin S. Elliott against Charles W. Bridles, formerly of
Kent County, by Kent County Court in Chestertown. Ann Bridle,
formerly Ann Massey, retains a one third interest in the lands as wife
of Charles W. Bridles. The tract Free Gift (209 acres) was devised by
Thomas Cooper to William S. Cooper by his Will dated November 8, 1788;
the tract called Chance and Chester Grove (123 acres) was deed by Thomas
Pearce to William S. Cooper dated July 25, 1816; and the partial tract
named Partnership (12 acres) was deeded from Ann Sturgis and Rachel
Sturgis to William S. Cooper on March 1, 1816. All of these lands were
devised to Ann Bridles (then Ann Massey) by William S. Cooper in his
Will dated April 20, 1819, subject to the life estate of Ann Smith, then
Ann Cooper, in one third part of said lands, as by the said Will of
William S. Cooper. William F. Smith became the highest bidder in the
requisite auction. Witness: John B. Eccleston; Joseph N. Gordon is
Kent County clerk. |
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297B |
1842 |
William
F. Smith (Smyth) |
Josiah Massey |
Free Gift; Chance and Chester Grove; and Partnership |
209; 123; and 12 |
JNG:8:214 |
Deed |
June 13, 1842:
Josiah Massey of Kent County in the State of Maryland buys for $690.00
from William F. Smyth (Smith) the following tracts: Free Gift (209
acres), Chance and Chester Grove (123 acres) and a part of Partnership
(12 acres) which William F. Smith had bought of Philip B. Travilla,
Sheriff of Kent County in 1837 and recorded in Liber JNG No.5, Folio 55, 56 & 57,
and subject to the life estate of Ann Smith, formerly Ann Cooper, in
one third part of said lands. Witnesses: Justices of the Peace Richard
Moffatt and George McLaughlin; Joseph N. Gordon is Kent County clerk. |