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 STW #3, Folio 307-308
Oliver Smith to Daniel Toas Massey, April 22, 1795

Daniel Toas Massey, farmer of Kent County, buys for $1,500 a 300 acre tract of land called Collins His Range or Collins' Range from Oliver Smith, also farmer of Kent County. Witnesses: Robert George Jackson, T. Roberts and Dan Knock. 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 ("STW" in this example) and volume number ("3" above) and the folio page number ("307" above).

This indenture made the twenty-second day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety five between Oliver Smith of Kent County and the state of Maryland, farmer of the one part, and Daniel Toas Massey of Queen Anne's County and state aforesaid, farmer of the other part. Witnesseth that the said Oliver Smith in consideration of the sum of one thousand five hundred pounds current money of Maryland to him in hand paid by the said Daniel Toas Massey before the sealing and delivery of these presents, the receipt whereof the said Oliver Smith doth hereby acknowledge, and thereof and every part thereof doth hereby release, acquit, and discharge the said Daniel Toas Massey and his heirs, executors, and administrators, have granted, bargained, sold, aliened, enfeoffed, released, and confirmed and by these presents doth grant, bargain, sell, alien, enfeoff, release, and confirm unto the said Daniel Toas Massey, his heirs, and assigns, all that tract or parcel of land situate lying and being in Queen Anne's County and state of Maryland which said tract of land is called and known by the name of Collins His Range or Collins' Range containing by estimation three hundred acres of land be the same more or less together with all and singular the houses, outhouses, buildings, gardens and orchards, improvements, ways, waters, watercourses, woods and underwoods, hereditaments, and appurtenances whatsoever to the same belonging and anywise appertaining and the revision and revisions, remainder and remainders, rents, issues, profits, and services of the same and of every part and parcel thereof and all the estate, right, title, intent, property, uses, in demands both in law and equity which he, the said Oliver Smith, may or can have of and into the same in any part and parcel thereof. To have and to hold all and singular the above granted, bargained, and sold land and premises with the appurtenances to the said Daniel Toas Massey, his heirs, and assigns, to his in their own proper use and behoof forever and the said Oliver Smith for himself, his heirs, executors, and administrators, doth hereby covenant, grant, promise, and agree to and with the said Daniel Toas Massey, his heirs, and assigns, that he, the said Oliver Smith and his heirs and all persons claiming under him or through them, shall and will at all times hereafter at the reasonable request and the proper costs and charges of the said Daniel Toas Massey, his heirs, or assigns, make, do, execute, and suffer or cause to be made, done, executed, suffered, such further and other act and acts, deed and deeds, assurance and assurances, thing and things, for the further and more effectual to finance, assurance and [illegible] of the hereby granted, bargained, and sold land and premises with the appurtenances to the said Daniel Toas Massey, his heirs, and assigns, according to the true intent and meaning of this indenture as shall be by the said Daniel Toas Massey, his heirs, or assigns, his or their counsel learned in the law have from time to time advised, devised, and directed, and the said Oliver Smith for himself and his heirs the hereby granted, bargained, and sold lands and premises with the appurtenances and every part and parcel thereof against him and his [illegible] against all and every other person or persons whatsoever to the said Daniel Toas Massey, his heirs, and assigns, shall and will [illegible] and forever defend together [illegible]. In witness whereof the said parties to these presents have hereunto interchangeably set their hands and affixed their seals the day and year first above written. Oliver Smith {seal} Sealed and delivered in the presence of Robert George Jackson On the back of the aforesaid deed was thus endorsed to wit: Queen Anne's County of to wit: Be it remembered that on the twenty-seventh day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety five personally appeared before us, the subscribers, two of the Justices of the Peace for Queen Anne's County, the within named Oliver Smith and acknowledged the within indenture to be his act and deed and the land and premises together with the appurtenances therein granted bargained and sold to be the right and the state of the within named Daniel Toas Massey, his heirs, and assigns, forever according to the true intent and meaning of the said deed. Witness our hands the day and year above written. T. Roberts       Dan Knock On the same deed was thus further endorsed to wit: On the twenty-second day of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety five, receipt of the within named Daniel Toas Massey the sum of one thousand five hundred pounds current money in full of the consideration money in the within deed mentioned. Oliver Smith Witness T. Roberts