| Section VI - Massey Data Bank | One Maryland Massey Family by George
Langford, Jr. 1901-1996 ©Cullen G. Langford and George Langford, III, 2010 |
Maryland Land Records, Queen Anne's County, Liber JT #1, Folio 168-169
Daniel Massey from Charles C. Shawne, September 12, 1834
| September
12, 1834: David Massey, free Negro of Queen Anne's County in Maryland,
executes a note for $44.33 for a Negro girl Elizabeth and a Negro woman
named Susan, aged 65, said Elizabeth to be freed on September 10, 1837,
from all right of the estate of Charles C. Shawn, who died before
September 30, 1828, the date on which David Massey paid the last dollar
to settle the note. Note: High-resolution images of the deed at right can be viewed at the Maryland State Archives, but registration is required in advance of doing so. Once you have registered, you can access the images by entering the county clerk's initials ("JT" in this example) and volume number ("1" above) and the folio page number ("168" above). |
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Anne's County to wit: Be it remembered that, on the twelfth day of
September in the year eighteen hundred and thirty four, the following
receipts were brought to be recorded to wit: Received January 31, 1821 of David Massey free Negro male, a hand-on-demand, forty four dollars and thirty three cents, which when paid will be in full payment of a Negro girl Elizabeth and Negro woman Susan aged about sixty five, the girl Elizabeth to save said Daniel Massey, free Negro, until the tenth day of September eighteen hundred and thirty seven ... 1837... and no longer and when she arrives to the aforesaid age of the tenth September eighteen hundred and thirty seven ... 1837 ... she will be free by my last will and testament from all right of my estate. Given under my hand the day and year first above written. Witness present: John Sellway Juliann Williamson Received September 30, 1828 of David Massey (Negro) one dollar in full of the balance of a note which he gave to Charles C. Shawn, deceased, which was lost in my possession and is paid. Teste: Henry Sellway John Sellway [illegible] |
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