Index

Year

Grantor

Grantee

Parcel

Acreage

Lib:No:Fol

Link

Abstract

303

1837

James F. Browne

Pamela L. Massey

Rumford

120

JNG:4:433

Deed of sale for back taxes

James F. Browne, formerly tax collector for Kent County in the State of Maryland, sells at auction the 120 acre tract called Rumford to settle a tax bill of $3.12 owed by the heirs of Joshua W. Massey. Pamela L[ambden] Massey is the high bidder at $6.00 through her agent Ebenezer T. Massey of Kent County. Witnesses: Justices of the Peace W.P. Matthews and Ira F. Younger; Joseph N. Gordon is Kent County clerk.

303B

1842

Pamela L. Massey

Jeremiah Cosden

The Forest (Forrest) and Rumford

118+

JNG:8:102

Deed

February 22, 1842: Parmelia (Pamela)L. Massey of Cumberland County in the State of Pennsylvania sells for $810.00 to Jeremiah Cosden of Kent County in the State of Maryland the tracts called The Forest (Forrest) and Rumford, totaling 118+ acres.  Courses: [illegible lines at the bottom of the page] minutes West one hundred and fifty four and 18/25 perches, thence North sixty nine and a half degrees West twelve and 8/25 perches, then North fifty three degrees West forty five perches, then South forty two degrees West four perches, then South eighty five degrees West twenty five and a half perches, then South six and a half degrees West one hundred and ninety five perches to the main road aforesaid, and from thence with a straight line to the beginning, containing one hundred and eighteen acres, two roods and thirty two perches. This is the same parcel deeded to Parmelia (Pamela) L. Massey by James F. Browne, Esquire, former [tax] collector of Kent County. Witnesses: Samuel Hepburn Judge of the Court of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania and William D. Seymour; George Sunderson is Clerk of Cumberland County Court; and Joseph N. Gordon is Kent County clerk.